David Grau Sr.

i was super busy one day and i was doing the hey boss just one quick question you know we couldn't get through a paragraph of anything in our discussion without somebody walking in for me to solve the problem and and i again i was just glowing i felt so good about it and and he finally walked over and just kind of slammed the door and he said

Would you just stop it?

This isn't a law practice.

This is a business.

And it can't go any further than you if you're going to keep doing that.

And I was kind of stunned.

And I thought, wait a minute, I'm solving all the problems.

Everybody needs me.

And that was the point at which I realized I was on the founder's treadmill.

What a great way to end the week.

Well, so I came out of college in the Midwest, and I was an English major.

And from day one, I wanted to write books.

But, you know, we're not all Stephen King.

And I realized I also needed to make a living.

And so I chose a profession that I thought would give me a chance to do a lot of writing.

And I went to law school.

And so I ended up...

in the securities trade i was a securities regulator right out of law school i graduated past the bar and eventually opened up my own securities law practice and not not a lot of writing certainly nothing creative um in that line of work so um i got into law and you know i made a good living i started my own small business and i was a sole proprietorship which was

kind of my dream come true.

My dad and my grandfather, you know, they were all sole proprietors in their life.