Adrian Dayton
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I mean, I was making with bonus, like maybe 80 grand a year.
So in Buffalo, that's plenty of money, you know?
Um, and so we had student loans, we had a baby, my wife wasn't working.
Um, you know, we had a house payment and I said, honey, it's okay.
I've got an idea.
I am going to start a business.
teaching lawyers how to use Twitter.
And she just, she just cried harder, you know, but she, she was really supportive.
And over the next few months, I wrote the first book on social media for lawyers and my consulting business just exploded.
So I was just consulting and I went from in the first year, I made about a hundred grand a year and I grew it doubled almost every year until I was doing about $400,000 a year consulting to large law firms all over the world.
And I was making great money.
Yeah.
I mean, yeah, I was making $7,500 a day to go and work with these firms.
And obviously I couldn't sell 20 days a month, but sometimes I would sell, you know, uh, you know, five to 10 days a month.
And I would just, you know, I had months where I would just absolutely crush it and I had no expenses.
All the money just came right into my account.
And I mean, a lot of people would say like, why did you ever start a company?
Like that sounds like a pretty great lifestyle.
And obviously lifestyle was good, but
But I felt like I wasn't having the impact that I could with like a product.