Eddie Hartman

there may have been a little bit of drinking involved.

And one of them said to me, Eddie, do you think you would have been a better entrepreneur if you hadn't been a parent?

And I said, huh, I'll tell you what, I'm going to give it five years and I bet you're going to ask a different question.

And that question will be, would you have been a better parent if you weren't an entrepreneur?

Here's why this is a relevant question.

Are you really willing to commit?

Are you really willing to commit?

Being an entrepreneur takes so much.

If you're not willing to fully put in your sweat, your blood, and that of other people who believe in you, then maybe this isn't the right game.

Here's a test I like to give people.

If your mom is alive and if your mom is not a billionaire, would you borrow more money from your mother than she can comfortably give you?

And put it into the company.

Because if you're willing to do that, there's going to come a day where you'll have to make a decision or you'll have to put in extra time.

And if you don't do it, you're going to have to pick up the phone and call your mom and say, you're never getting that money back.

And you, if you like your mom, if you love your mom, you will do almost anything not to have to pick up the phone and make that call.

you will go the extra mile.

You will do the incredibly hard thing.

You will, you'll make tough choices.

You'll fire a friend because they're just not cutting it.

But if you do not do that, if you do not super double down and overcommit, there will be a day where there's a hard choice and you'll say, ah, you know, and that will be the slow erosion of your dream.