The High School Dropout Who Made $2B & Bought an NBA Team

This is Ryan Smith. The guy who went from a 1.9 GPA high school dropout to a$2 billion net worth. But this isn't your normal dropout story. At some point you have a conversation with yourself, like, okay, I gotta make this happen. Yeah, I gotta find a gear that I've never used before. When he dropped out, he had no plan, no money, and nowhere to live. There's a great story about the early days of Qual Trix and Focus.

We were religious about it. And it was actually an incredible forcing function for me. At some point you get offered$500 million to sell the company. And you turned it down. Every other person I would talk to about this offer was like take it and run. You're building it. From your family's basement all the way to the end zone. Basically sell for eight billion dollars, you end up going public. I didn't do anything else when I was doing quals. I didn't invest, I didn't sit on boards, no side hustles. No side hustles. Nothing. Except for who's. What's it like to now own an NBA team? That's insane.

My philosophy was don't blink. Just go. I feel like I can rule the world, I know I can be what I want to I'm putting my all in it like my day's all on the road, less travel, never looking back. I wanna start with this, like you know, you've Done what?

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