Raising $20 Million Made Me Want to Be Average
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Raising $20 Million Made Me Want to Be Average
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I started a business because I wanted more freedom. We raised about $20 million for the company, grew fast, and I ended up blocking out my calendar just to get away from the thing I'd built.
After we sold, I talked to a sales trainer who'd deliberately kept his business small. He wanted time for motorcycle trips, and he'd built his work around that. It made me question how much of the success I'd been chasing I actually wanted to live with.The actor-income and business-failure percentages mentioned in this episode are unverified.
00:00 What I actually want from success
01:08 Chasing the wrong version of success
01:38 Taking $20 million and losing freedom
02:32 When the funding stopped
03:04 What a sales trainer taught me after the sale
03:55 Thinking about what matters to you
05:01 The ordinary things I enjoy
05:51 Choosing the size of life you want
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I'm Art Harrison. I tell stories about work, money, starting businesses, and starting over, usually because something didn't go the way I thought it would.
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheArtHarrison