A High School Dropout Who Now Owns Multiple Multi 8-Figure Businesses with Sam Gordon

Light that Sparkfire Nation, JLD here, and welcome to Entrepreneurs on Fire, brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network, the audio destination for business professionals with great shows like My First Million. Today we'll be breaking down a high school dropout who now owns multiple eight-figure businesses. To drop these value bombs, I have brought Sam Gordon into EOFIR Studios. Sam is the Australian Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2024 under property and construction, a three time Australian fastest growing 100 company. Australian investor of the year in twenty twenty and runs two multi-e figure businesses and is host of the chart topping Scouting Australia podcast, which is a top one percent podcast. In today's Foundation will talk about why university isn't a requirement for building a successful business. Never drop your standards, building a culture of winners and why sticking to your niche can add serious profit to your bottom line and so much more. And a big thank you for sponsoring today's episode goes to Sam and our sponsors. Over forty one thousand businesses have future proofed their business with Net Suite by Oracle, the number one cloud ERP bringing accounting, financial management, inventory, and HR into one platform. Download the CFO's guide to AI and machine learning for free at NetSuite.com slash fire.

If you've ever considered launching a show on YouTube, I may have the solution for you after launching a very successful show on YouTube in 2024. MicroStrategy today. I've learned a lot on what it takes to create a successful show and have launched a one-on-one mentorship program called YouTube One Hundred. If you want to jump on a call and learn more about this program, shoot me an email, John at eofire.com. This is the year of YouTube. Let's go. Sam, say what's up to Fire Nation and share something that you believe about becoming successful that most people disagree with. G'day, Fire Nation, getting ready to uh have a big big uh podcast with John today. Look, I think uh, mate, one of the biggest things that I would dis disagree with, or that most people would disagree with, sorry, that I believe strongly. made it's that there's such a thing as a work life balance. Um in all honesty. I think if you want to go hard from entrepreneur and business uh and build something big and something significant, I don't really believe in in work life balance. Um I believe you have to go wholeheartedly after something a big way to achieve a big thing. Um and that that work life balance potentially can come in further down the track. But yeah, to go hard and get something big made, I think um yeah, I think it's very much it's very

Sam, you have quite the origin story. I mean, it's fantastic. I wanna talk about it now and I wanna talk about how our origin stories can actually shape our business offering. Sure, mate. So I think um, mate, probably the biggest thing for me is if I wandered all the way back to to literally literally being a kid, mate. I'm a high school dropper, I dropped out of school fresh uh fresh 16. Uh, started working effectively minimum wage on my parents' farm. And what it really showed me, mate, was was was how hard that they worked their whole way through. Now My mom went through university. She was a you know high school teacher, um, history and uh an English teacher. My dad as well, he was a mechanic by trade and then was in the in the police force and and uh actually was one of the youngest detectives ever in the New South Wales police force in the seventies. So very switched on people and yet they still kind of ended up going down, even when they went down a business avenue. They were still just working their guts out and it was almost just like it was just a job. It wasn't like they were business owners. And when I saw them really go down that path.

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