Ivan Raiklin
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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I got my Green Beret.
I'm a special forces officer.
Nothing touches me.
Best thing since sliced bread.
Yep.
Totally cocky and arrogant, right?
By the way, I'm the most humble human to ever walk the face of the earth.
So with that swagger and attitude, I'm thinking to myself, and I was in the National Guard, so although the training is all the same and deployments are the same, when you're not in that deployment cycle, you're a civilian pretty much, right?
So for that one weekend a month.
So I'm thinking to myself, all right, what do I want to do?
I want to kind of get in the entrepreneur network, figure out what's going on in that space.
So you heard of Inc.?
Inc.
Yeah, so Inc.
500, 5,000 has the annual conference.
And that year, I think it was 2010, yeah, they had it in D.C.
Okay.
And so I signed up.
I was like, wow, that's a lot of money.
For me at the time, it was like a couple thousand.