Eric Berry
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There's real opportunity cost.
Yeah.
And it's like, man, are we going to go for broke here or not?
How old are you, Eric?
How old am I?
I'm 37.
I have a wife that's I've been very fortunate, uh, who supports me.
Um, so,
like now we're a 200% profitable company and I make a market salary.
Uh, but that was not the case for the first three to four years of the company.
Um, of which I was not married or engaged for the first two.
Um, so for those two, that was like a, that was a ramen phase in my life.
Yeah.
You know, I had a little bit of like being a lawyer in savings.
Uh, and I think honestly, there's a, there's, there's an increasing amount of literature about
How being fortunate from a financial perspective is really determinative in terms of whether or not someone can be an entrepreneur.
And I would buy that 100%.
My wife would not be thrilled with me if she heard me say that.
I'd have a lot of explaining to do.
Uh, my favorite business book, hard thing about hard things.