Entrepreneurial Humility Ten Years of Learning & Growth

What this short covers

The process of finding his co-founder and building a successful business partnership for April, a company focused on tax innovation.

Transcript

But I think, you know, being a being an entrepreneur is the is the ultimate exercise in in humility. And it actually took me about 10 years until I was willing to try it again because I had to go learn everything I found out that I didn't know. >> But, you know, it that's not easy, you know, for you to come to that conclusion that that you need to learn um certain things because you don't know what you don't know. But before I need to learn things that I don't know. But I think on the way to that success, you have to remember that there was tons and tons of failure. And the only way that they were able to get to that point was by digesting that, reflecting, pivoting, and moving forward.

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