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What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up?
This is a question that has been in the back of my head for the last year.
Covid threw my life into a bit of upheaval. Not directly, but looking back on things, it definitely gave things a sense of urgency. I was doing so much work for others.
And nothing for me.
I saw so many stories of people quitting their jobs. Launching their startups. Raising millions.
And I thought, why can’t that be me?
So I quit my job. I spent a lot of time writing. I found a cofounder.
And I started trying to raise money.
It took me down some interesting paths. I was on a Zoom call with a billionaire for a chance to get on his TV show. I met a ton of awesome people.
And ultimately, shut it down after six months. I tried to do too much. I burnt out. I did pretty much everything wrong. Looking back on it, there’s no surprise it didn’t work. I had no clue what I was doing. I was going through some motions, but I had no idea what it all meant.
Yet, it was also really close to working. I got really unlucky. If anything goes differently, I could be in a much different spot. There were times it got really close. Could I have done things differently…
