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Bobby Mesmer

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1059 total appearances

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Digital Social Hour
He Survived a Heart Attack While Running His Company | Bobby Mesmer | DSH #1851

So you have to fund, typically you fund the first 60 days of the job.

Digital Social Hour
He Survived a Heart Attack While Running His Company | Bobby Mesmer | DSH #1851

Because you can't bill when you start, you bill at the end of the month.

Digital Social Hour
He Survived a Heart Attack While Running His Company | Bobby Mesmer | DSH #1851

So if I started in say the beginning of September, like any project I start right now, I can't bill until the end of September, but they're not paying me until the end of October.

Digital Social Hour
He Survived a Heart Attack While Running His Company | Bobby Mesmer | DSH #1851

Out of my pocket, labor, material, all of it.

Digital Social Hour
He Survived a Heart Attack While Running His Company | Bobby Mesmer | DSH #1851

And so basically these projects, I did them very fast.

Digital Social Hour
He Survived a Heart Attack While Running His Company | Bobby Mesmer | DSH #1851

They were large.

Digital Social Hour
He Survived a Heart Attack While Running His Company | Bobby Mesmer | DSH #1851

We did them quickly.

Digital Social Hour
He Survived a Heart Attack While Running His Company | Bobby Mesmer | DSH #1851

And it basically put us in a position where like I wasn't even, I had my first bill in, we were done by our second bill, but the second bill wasn't, or the first bill wasn't even paid yet.

Digital Social Hour
He Survived a Heart Attack While Running His Company | Bobby Mesmer | DSH #1851

And he had the power of the pen and he was like,

Digital Social Hour
He Survived a Heart Attack While Running His Company | Bobby Mesmer | DSH #1851

you know, basically F you.

Digital Social Hour
He Survived a Heart Attack While Running His Company | Bobby Mesmer | DSH #1851

Wow.

Digital Social Hour
He Survived a Heart Attack While Running His Company | Bobby Mesmer | DSH #1851

I can see why banks don't like this industry.

Digital Social Hour
He Survived a Heart Attack While Running His Company | Bobby Mesmer | DSH #1851

Yeah.

Digital Social Hour
He Survived a Heart Attack While Running His Company | Bobby Mesmer | DSH #1851

And that's what happens.

Digital Social Hour
He Survived a Heart Attack While Running His Company | Bobby Mesmer | DSH #1851

And it forces you to sue.

Digital Social Hour
He Survived a Heart Attack While Running His Company | Bobby Mesmer | DSH #1851

It just, it just gets messy.

Digital Social Hour
He Survived a Heart Attack While Running His Company | Bobby Mesmer | DSH #1851

And it's just, it's a, it's a nasty, it's a nasty business.

Digital Social Hour
He Survived a Heart Attack While Running His Company | Bobby Mesmer | DSH #1851

You know, it's a nasty business.

Digital Social Hour
He Survived a Heart Attack While Running His Company | Bobby Mesmer | DSH #1851

And it's different sectors of the, of the country that make it nasty, you know, if that makes sense.

Digital Social Hour
He Survived a Heart Attack While Running His Company | Bobby Mesmer | DSH #1851

So, you know, so there's areas that we just won't work at.