Chris Koerner
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I wanted this Schwinn bicycle.
And it was red.
And my friends had a bicycle.
My neighbors had a bicycle.
And my parents didn't have money for it.
And so for whatever reason, I connected that white golf ball in my grass with money.
And I would...
go to my neighbor's yards, I'd go across the street, I'd dig through the ditches and I'd pull out all these golf balls, I'd wash them.
And then I put up this huge piece of plywood in front of my house that said golf balls three for a dollar.
And that was my first business.
And at the time it was just normal, it was natural.
I didn't know any different.
And now I have a nine-year-old and I was nine when I did that.
And we live on a busy road today.
I lived on a busy road then.
And the thought of him negotiating, haggling with grownups wearing polo shirts on our doorstep is unfathomable.
But that's what I was doing.
And that planted the seed.
That kind of taught me that business is approachable.
Preferably, it's approachable.