Every Business I Tried Before Making My First Million

All right, everyone on this podcast we talk a lot about the successes, but I want to talk about the failures. So here's about ten different companies that I started before I made my first million. Almost all of them they sucked. It didn't work. But I'm gonna explain how much I made for each idea and the lesson that I learned. I feel like I can root Well I know I can be what I want to I put my all in it like my day song. On the road, let's travel now look. What's up, Sam? What's going on?

Let's set this up. Name of this podcast, My First Million. When did you make your first million? So cash, like cash million, I made it when my wife worked at Airbnb and it went public. And that that's when we made our first and then about three months later, I think it went later in December, my company sold in February, and then we made a lot. Leading up to that, we were doing pretty good too, but I don't think we had crossed one million. Okay. So you made your first million, let's call it thirty one years old. Here's all the businesses you tried.

Before that, before making your first million, which I think is pretty fascinating. I wanna go down this list. Does it start in high school? Yeah. All right, go go for it. Give me number one. In high school I made twenty five hundred dollars one summer by buying graduating seniors old sports equipment and selling it on eBay. And so what I used to do is I would just buy like people's like track spikes or uh, you know, whatever, and I would sell it on eBay and uh most of the time that I didn't buy it. They would just give it to me. They would hand it to me. And I on eBay I made twenty five hundred dollars. That was my first business where I actually started making online money. And this is flipping, basically. This is flipping assets that other people Not only undervalue

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