Bill Perkins
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I think, you know,
I think it's, I think the victim story is marketed to people.
And if you don't take that more victim story, I think they would have the same experience as me.
Really?
But, you know, I don't want to go too deep in it, but I would just say that it wasn't conscious, right?
You just felt it.
You know, you just had pride, right?
You're the underdog pride.
And it came.
And I guess some people, they might have, you know, I was lucky.
I had a father and a mother, right?
Who, you know, two college educated parents, my dad via scholarship and my mom later on in life.
And so if anybody was designed to succeed, it was me.
But there were, you know, when I was led on my own and it's time for me to do it on my own or, you know,
Who moves from New York City to Texas to go?
The decisions I made were kind of just like, it can be done.
When I had not that much experience, but I knew I can recruit people to Berlin to do this solar development project in the Nevada desert, and then sold it to Capital Dynamics and made my friends and myself a good chunk of change.
And also putting solar on the grid.
It's just this belief that you can figure it out and you can do it.
And so I guess that there are some people who get dealt the clouds of inferiority and it stunts them.