Chris Koerner

I think that those bigger bets that I take will just amount to more meetings and more travel and more time away from my kids.

And I don't like, it might sound controversial, like I'm not trying to change the world.

Like, I want to help people start businesses, and I can do that with my iPhone.

And that will change the world, right?

But I'm not trying to solve world hunger.

I think that's someone else's problem to solve.

And so I just want to be a good dad and work on really cool things.

And it's been a grind to get here, right?

Like, I've had more years with zero income than I've had before.

up years, right?

But my up years have more than compensated for my down years.

So what you're looking at today is the end result of 17 years of a lot of testing, like a very patient wife that was unquestioning and unwavering and extremely loyal, which I could not have done it without.

And so there were a lot of periods of my life where I beat myself up over that lack of focus.

I went and got my MBA because of my lack of focus.

I finished my undergrad because of my lack of focus.

Getting a full-time job has never really been off the table until the last five or so years.

So I've never been unwilling to get a job or to focus.

And I probably did it the hard way, honestly.

But I'm to the point now where I don't feel the need to focus at all on one thing.

Did you ever feel guilty because of the situation you put your family or your partner in?