Damian Maldonado

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575 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 19 Feb

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And a lot of companies in my industry didn't take the hit.

They ended up going out of business.

They just didn't plan for it.

And by the way, in the U.S., failure is a part of success.

If you fail, you learn from your mistakes, try not to duplicate them, and you start back over.

We have bankruptcy in the U.S.

Luckily, I've never had to do anything like that.

But some countries, you can't do that.

But here, you learn and you start again.

I've had two big layoffs in our organization since we started like 2008, 2009 mortgage collapse.

We had to lay off people, but we were much smaller than maybe around 80 to like, say, 60 or 50.

And those are rough because sometimes an employee could have been with you for 10 years.

So that's really sad when that happens.

But more recently, after interest rates went up the fastest in history, we were from 1,200 employees down to 50.

That was really, really rough.

Again, I think as a entrepreneur, for me, being raised not with a lot of money, you have fear of losing it all, right?

And I still have that fear.

I think companies and people that are much more successful than me have lost it all.

So that could always happen to you if you just make a few bad decisions.

So I think looking at the math and saying, okay, we could survive here at this and then having that faith to just go for it.

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