Brandon Dawson

97% of businesses fail out of 34 million, and most of them stay at 3 million or less.

If the business is gonna grow and scale, the person in charge of the business must grow and scale.

I went and raised my first million.

I made a hundred presentations.

I was laughed out of most of them.

I bought my first business.

I had no idea what I was doing between 26, 27.

Bootstrap your company, be in control of it, and learn to force the company to make money.

And if the company doesn't make money,

You shouldn't be trying to push your business by spending more money and by hiring more people and by buying more assets.

You should be trying

Thank you for having me on your show.

I don't think school has any determination on who somebody is ultimately going to become.

And the one thing I was in school is I was very competitive in sports.

In fact, it's the only reason I cared about school.

My parents told me if I got less than a C average, they would not let me play sports.

So honestly, the only reason I did anything in school is so I could play sports.

But I graduated from a little tiny school in the middle of nowhere in Corvallis, Oregon.

And

It was kind of a joke with my classmates.