Cody McLain

And you were 19 at this point or 20, 19, 20 around there.

And I didn't know what I was going to do.

And so I moved down to Seattle and then I was trying to figure out, well, I might be able to apply for another job.

And so I tried to apply to applying for a web design job, but I didn't get it.

And it just made me kind of sit back and realize like, wait a sec, I'm not really skilled at any particular area.

Like I know a little bit of marketing, a little bit of SEO,

a little bit of design, but I'm not great at any one thing.

And so I thought, well, the only thing I can do again is just start another business.

And that led me to start my next company, Pacific Coast.

And I was able to grow that over the next two, three, four years.

I, yeah, there was basically I was able to get that out of there.

So it wasn't really an issue.

And I was able to grow the company to become even more successful than the last company.

And that led to other more successes, and lots of fun stuff.

I just used what I had.

And in fact, it was really interesting that I was actually able to start making money within three months after I started it.

It wasn't the first paying customer, but I put a lot of heart and effort into that company.

It was pure effort, workaholic, 12 plus hours a day.

That's all I was doing.

I was just grinding it out, trying to get new customers, and it ended up working out.