How Peter Rex’s vision for helping the world brought forth MakeRise

Peter Rex, MakeRise, Failure, Hiring, Marketplace, Mental Game, Networking

How do you go from losing everything you’ve built up and sleeping on the floor to using that experience to creating a company that has a global-wide impact?

Peter Rex is the founder of MakeRise, (formerly known as Trustwork) allows you to find jobs, hire professionals, buy and sell goods, network and collaborate.

MakeRise launched two years ago and already has over 400 employees.

Peter Rex

MakeRise

Peter Rex is the founder of MakeRise, (formerly known as Trustwork) which allows you to find jobs, hire professionals, buy and sell goods, network and collaborate.

Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses. And I do it for an audience of real entrepreneurs. I actually believe in the future that just calling anyone entrepreneur will be redundant, right? If you’re a human being, you’ll basically be an entrepreneur. Oh, or maybe we’ll assume that everyone’s an entrepreneur. And then, there’ll be some outliers, some people who are not because they happen to work, I don’t know, for the government or something.

But for the most part, we’re all shifting towards that. And if we are, it’s the type of thing where there’s nobody telling you exactly what to do and how to get the result that you’re looking for. You got to figure it out yourself and figuring it out yourself really doesn’t work nearly as well as hearing how other people did it, getting ideas...

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