Ken Rideout

Training like crazy.

Then I would come home.

It would be like an hour and a half drive.

And it was, it was driving me crazy.

It was ruining my life.

Cause I like three 30, I'd start looking at my watch and looking at ways and looking at my watch.

And I'd be like the first person out of the office.

And at that time I was working at a financial technology firm that I helped

start with a friend of mine called Amar Kuchinad, who ran structured credit trading at Goldman Sachs.

We started a company called Electronify that was an electronic trading platform for corporate bonds for end users.

So like PIMCO could trade directly with State Street instead of trading through the banks and them taking a fee.

Anyway, it was a long shot that it would work, but I wanted to go to California to cover the West Coast clients and I just wanted the change of my life.

And it was like, it was in hindsight, it was so insanely stupid and risky for me to do this because there's no trading desk in LA that I can work on.

If this doesn't work, I'm in LA and I don't have, the only thing I've done is work on trading desks and they're all in New York.

so i was like i'm gonna just take a chance and i have four that i had my fourth son was brand new he was like less than six months old i moved the whole family across country to l.a i rent a house in the palisades that's like obscenely expensive i'm burning through money like it's on like

we're like throwing money overboard.

I'm just like, I can't believe how quick my money is running out.

And at that time I was training for Ironman in Hawaii, which I had done a few times previously.

Cause when I got sober, I was like really into endurance sports.

It became my new addiction.