Akbar Gbajabiamila
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Podcast Appearances
And I knew that I didn't have a big enough name like some of the big Hall of Famers and playoff guys or like my brother.
So I had to figure out what I call the backdoor approach.
And I needed to create some sort of internship for myself.
So I did that.
And in that process, they let me do it because I was doing it for free.
That's great.
Yeah.
I had a little bit of money that I had saved up to where I'm like, all right, I'll just bet on myself.
And so I then started to really kind of invest myself in growing there.
It's suffocated the pain a little bit because I was busy and I wasn't occupied with what what I was going to do next.
But that was a real part.
And that that time took about you.
But it took me about a year.
until they started paying you oh no no it took me I did two years for free I worked for free for two years and then my first job out of that was calling college football games I was making like $26,000 hold on yeah best thing ever yeah because my buddy was going to work for Steve Jobs he was supposed to be the CEO of the iPod and
And he told him no.
And I said, why?
And he said, because Steve Jobs is an asshole.
And I said, get out of my car.
I literally told him to get out of my car.
He told Steve Jobs to get out of his car?