Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy where I interview entrepreneurs for an audience of real entrepreneurs who are often building their businesses while listening to these interviews. A few weeks ago, I interviewed an entrepreneur who was drinking heavily, doing a lot of drugs, doing a bunch of stuff. And part of the way that he got himself back on track was he joined an organization called the YEC, Young Entrepreneur Council.
And I kind of forgot about the YEC, or maybe I just stopped paying attention to it and stop realizing that it’s been around me that when I look people up on LinkedIn, they don’t just have a list of the jobs that they had, they list that they are in YEC. And when I talked to entrepreneurs here at scotch, when I talked to them just in private, if they’re part of YEC, they talk about what they get out of it.
My favorite example is the guy who made a hoodie for me. He...