Losing it all, suicide, depression, comeback

8BIT, The Iron Yard, Comeback, Mental Game

We didn’t talk about anything I expected to talk about in this interview. Instead we talked about suicide, alcoholism, and the illusory nature of startup goals.

I’ll interview today’s guest again about how he built his business but this interview is about the inner struggles of entrepreneurship. If you don’t want to hear me get personal with a guest, skip this interview. Go to the next one.

If you are someone who wants to know what goes on in a founder’s head, I don’t know anyone who opens up more than today’s interviewee.

8BIT is the founder of The Iron Yard, a coding school.

8BIT is the founder of The Iron Yard, a coding school.

Andrew: You’re about to hear me introduce this interview and tell you what’s in it. None of what I thought was going to be in this interview actually happened. Instead of what I talked about, we ended up talking about suicide, alcohol, the illusory nature of startup goals, and a bunch of other stuff like that. We will schedule a follow-up interview where John and I are going to talk about everything about his business. This is not that. This is more about the inner issues, inner game of entrepreneurship.

If you’re someone who doesn’t want to hear me get personal with a guest, tune out, go listen to the next one or go listen to someone else’s interview. If you’re someone who does want more of this personal stuff, what’s going on in an entrepreneur’s head, I don’t know of anyone who gets more open than John. This interview is a good example of that. So that is what we’re talking about.

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