4x Dyslexic Founder - I Won't Learn This Lesson Again. 🎙️
I’ve haven’t told this story publicly before.
Sitting across from Andy Walsh a fellow Aussie - we recorded episode 79 of Startups Decoded, it landed different…
I dropped out of high school with no plan and built a retreat business in Australia. I didn’t build it to sell. I built it because I was good at getting people in a room. When a competitor made an offer, one who could actually grow it further than I ever could, I took it. I never once asked what the multiple should have been. That wasn’t the mistake. The mistake came after.
I moved to the US and co-founded a high-growth startup. I was COO. We raised multiple seven figures. I told Andy the raise was the most punishing thing I’ve been through, and I meant it.
What I didn’t say out loud until that recording: the company I was grinding toward wasn’t mine. It was my business partner’s dream. I had the information the whole time. I just wasn’t slowing down long enough to listen to it.
That’s the lesson I keep paying for. Not that fundraising is hard. Whether the plan I’m running is mine, or one I inherited because it was already moving and it felt rude to get off. Four companies in, I finally check before I commit a year of my life to it.
That’s the whole premise of the Revenue AI Accelerator. Not another growth-at-all-costs system. A way to build the revenue engine that’s actually yours, so you stop grinding toward someone else’s exit.
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