Bobby Mesmer
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard 9 Mar
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But you still have to look at it and say, something's trying to tell me something. What is it and what do I do with it? But those are all the mistakes that line up. I wasn't taking good care of my health. I wasn't watching myself. I was overstressed. That's all the dummy nonsense that I've created in my world that pushed me into a position to have a heart attack and to not be healthy.
Okay, what do I learn from it? Ich habe mich verändert. Ich habe mich verändert. Ich habe mich verändert. Ich habe mich verändert. Ich habe mich verändert. Take it from me, try to change now, try to have perspective, try to take your business and do something a little bit different with it.
Still accelerate it, still put your energy into it, but even yourself personally, if you have personal goals, put your energy into it, but don't make the same mistakes that I did. That's where it starts.
Ja, also ich bin seit 25 Jahren im Geschäft. Das Geschäft, das ich gerade habe, ist mein langfristiges Geschäft, RMG Erektors & Constructors. Wir sind die größte pre-ingenieerte Stahl-Erektionsfirma in der Norden-Hemisphäre. So if actually the world at this point right now. So great success there. We developed that business into also manufacturing and engineering and design.
So we're manufacturing our own steel, we're engineering it, detailing it and then erecting it. So we're the largest purchaser of fabricated steel in North America. So, you know, and that's great success in that business. Over the last 15 years, I've had two other companies. I formed a distribution company that I sold to a publicly traded company.
And then over the last five years, I had another franchise company that I built up and ended up selling that as well. So a lot of success there. And really what I did was, it's about finding avenues. You know, my success was driven by just Being a driven person, putting yourself in the right positions, growing strategically.
I bootstrapped everything in my business, which makes me, in my opinion, a better business person. Because anybody can start a business and take on capital from somebody, but that doesn't make you a good business person. It's easy to run business when you have money, right? 100%.
Worrying about payroll really, you know, and how you're going to make it next week, that's what changes the ballgame, Charles. You know what I mean? Like, you got to go through that in order to deal with it. So, yeah, we've built a, you know, we have a $4.5 billion valuation right now in our company, looking to sell in the next five years. But it doesn't come without struggles.
You know, I tell everybody, they're like, oh, you've been on a great trajectory. I'm like, man, I've been almost bankrupt every three years. Wenn du nicht fast in deiner Firma verkauft wirst, machst du etwas falsch, in meiner Meinung. Absolut.
Weil es zu einfach ist, richtig? Jemand kann eine Idee haben und dann Geld nehmen und dann versuchen, diese Idee zu entwickeln. Aber wenn man sich die Anzahl der Firmen anschaut, die gefehlt haben. Google die Firmen, die letztes Jahr gefehlt haben und schau dir die Anzahl des Kapitals an, die sie gefehlt haben. Hunderts von Millionen von Dollar und du hast gefehlt.
All das bedeutet für mich, dass du eine gute Idee hattest. Look, there are people that are meant to be business people and there are people that are not. I think that everybody has the aptitude to try it and I think everybody should try it. That's not naysaying and making people stay out of it. But there are business people and business mindset, which are, they are non-risk adverse people.
And then you got the risk adverse people and they're the ones who shouldn't be in business because you're too worried about the risk, right? Also ich denke, wenn du Kapital nimmst, ist das Problem, dass du eine tolle Idee hast, aber in meiner Meinung, ist es oft so, dass du eine Krutsche mit dem Kapital nimmst, weil du nicht durch den Schmerz der Geschäftsführung gehst.
und lernen, wie man wächst, und man lernt nicht die Dinge, weil wenn man das Kapital nimmt, kommen diese Leute rein und sie implementieren Leute aus ihrem Geschäft. Sie sagen, wir werden einen Controller einstellen, oder wir werden einen CFO-Manager haben, You're not learning how to manage your books. You're not learning how to pay bills. You're not learning how to read a P&L.
All you had was the idea. So what kind of businessman really are you from the start? And it goes back to the beginning too. A lot of people who start business, typically they work for somebody. So they work for somebody, they learn that business and they say, I could do this on my own. But then what they are is they're a rubber stamp Ich sage immer zu dir, was machst du anders?
Wie änderst du den Markt? Und was machst du besser, dass deine Kompetenz nicht funktioniert? Und viele Leute können diese Frage nicht beantworten. Und weil sie nichts besser machen. Du bist nur die gleiche Firma, competierst im gleichen Markt, mit der gleichen Preisung, mit der gleichen Margin. Na, wie geht es dir darum, dich zu differenzieren?
Differentiate yourself in the market, differentiate yourself in what you offer and differentiate yourself as a person and as a business that makes people look at you and say, wow, I really want to deal with that person. And when you take on money, unfortunately, it stops that vision because you're also curtailed to the way that the people who are giving you the money want you to operate. Yes.
It's very simple. What are you doing in the face of adversity? It starts there. When that adversity hits you, what are your actions? Either you're sticking your head in the sand or you're pulling yourself by your bootstraps and you're like, I'm going to figure this shit out. It's that simple. It's one or the other. That is a true business person. The guy that says, I'm going to figure this out.
And then when the adversity hits, it's the person, I say guy, guy or lady. It's the individual that literally says when the adversity hits, what am I going to do about it? Too many people are making excuses and they're not reflecting. You hear me say that a lot. Business is all reflection. What do I do? How do I change? How do I migrate? Everybody makes an excuse.
I can't pay my bills because this guy didn't pay me. Why didn't he pay you? You know, like I get a lot of people that don't pay me, but I look back and I say, well, why didn't he pay us? What can I do different that allows me to get paid on the next one? You know, but we keep chugging forward.
I'm not, okay, yeah, I lost, I'm not getting paid a million dollars over here, but business has to move on. What am I going to do? Go hide in my closet and rock in the corner? You know, but that's, you can't, that's the difference between the two types of people. It's really because there's too many business owners. I mentor a lot and some of these business owners, they're like,
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