Chris Harder

And I've always been pretty opportunistic.

So I chose the opportunistic set of lenses.

And I put those on and I said, you know, what could life look like going forward?

And that's really where our entrepreneurial journey kind of started.

Matter of fact, I always had that entrepreneurial bug in me.

There were a few things I tried kind of halfheartedly in the past.

So that seed was always there.

This was just the first opening for it to really grow into something.

And I'll tell you what the third step was, was accepting reality and making the best out of it.

In other words, we sold everything or short sold everything or walked away from everything in order to have a clean slate.

and started out in a tiny little 900 square foot loft apartment in downtown Minneapolis and built from there.

Instead of trying to somehow string this out or drag it on, we just said, you know what?

Let's tear off the Band-Aid.

Let's start fresh.

And then let's build something great going forward with these new lessons that we have in life.

And that really was what gave us the trajectory, those few steps of launching us, so to speak.

A long time.

See, that was about 12 years ago as you and I sit here and record today.

I guess almost 13 years ago, right?

So that felt like a short journey, but it's technically a long time.