Chris Koerner

Like it's still taxing.

So I need to be better about having an outlet.

Have you developed a new relationship with rejection and failure?

Because, you know, starting 80 odd businesses, you must have dealt with a lot of failure.

And how does that feed into everything we're talking about today?

Yeah.

Man, I don't know where I'd be without rejection and failure.

I'm not good at sales.

So if anyone's watching this and like, I can't start a business.

Business is all sales.

You don't have to be good at sales.

I'm not good at sales.

I can't think of a business where I had to rely on early customers coming from friends and family because I cared a lot about what people thought.

I didn't want to post my side hustle number 37 to Facebook because I just thought my friends would roll their eyes.

So I created this stupid constraint for me where, like, I had to launch things without the help of my ever-willing friends and family because I was too prideful, right?

So I advise against that, first of all.

Second of all, I served a mission for my church.

I went to Eastern Europe for two years, and I knocked doors in Hungarian for two years straight.

I approached people on the street in freezing weather wearing a big Russian hat, like...

I got rejected tens of thousands of times over the course of two years.