Brandon Dawson

And I was the youngest of all the kids.

It was a mixed family.

But by the time I was 24, 25, I was running North American sales.

I was director of U.S.

sales.

I had hired and fired all my older brothers.

And my parents started going through a pretty vicious divorce that went on for like seven years.

And about halfway through that, the new family was coming in, whom I was very close to and still very close to.

But I just felt trapped between my mom and

being in the way of the new family.

So I just removed myself from the situation, decided I was going to be an entrepreneur at 26 years old.

Yeah, well, it wasn't such a great success story.

I wouldn't raise my first million.

I made a hundred presentations.

I was laughed out of most of them.

I bought my first business and I was the only person ever at that point to consolidate the hearing care space.

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

Finally, Warburg Pincus backed me.

And at 29, I was the youngest person to ring the opening bell of the American Stock Exchange.

It was phenomenal.