Matt Higgins

But two, I said, well, what would be better than having your own show that then gets canceled by a network for which you have no control, that you spent hours and hours of your life and poured your heart and soul and thousands of dollars of your own money? I was like, having your own production company.

But two, I said, well, what would be better than having your own show that then gets canceled by a network for which you have no control, that you spent hours and hours of your life and poured your heart and soul and thousands of dollars of your own money? I was like, having your own production company.

where no one can do that to you again and so i partnered with gary vaynerchuk and eric wattenberg we now have our own production company i am now the executive producer on multiple shows that will air on different networks and so at the end of the day was more value extracted from the experience of canceling that show absolutely because i knew i had what it takes so the part that does weigh on me a little back to the whole point of like

where no one can do that to you again and so i partnered with gary vaynerchuk and eric wattenberg we now have our own production company i am now the executive producer on multiple shows that will air on different networks and so at the end of the day was more value extracted from the experience of canceling that show absolutely because i knew i had what it takes so the part that does weigh on me a little back to the whole point of like

This is when I allow a slight bit of victimhood to slip in. I'm like, just once, I would like it to be easy. And most people don't believe this one. They're going to hear about what I'm about to say. The difference between success or failure is the mere refusal to die.

This is when I allow a slight bit of victimhood to slip in. I'm like, just once, I would like it to be easy. And most people don't believe this one. They're going to hear about what I'm about to say. The difference between success or failure is the mere refusal to die.

I was sitting in a meeting the other day with a business that almost went under, and I can't say what it is because it's such a big national brand. But I was sitting in this meeting and we had tanked the company with some bad decisions. And it was such a shame. And we stayed alive within like, just so close from not even being around. And I was in the meeting, this just happened last week.

I was sitting in a meeting the other day with a business that almost went under, and I can't say what it is because it's such a big national brand. But I was sitting in this meeting and we had tanked the company with some bad decisions. And it was such a shame. And we stayed alive within like, just so close from not even being around. And I was in the meeting, this just happened last week.

And I was sitting there thinking, oh my God, we are going to make it. This is going to work. And that moment happens in every single thing I do where I'm shocked by our bad decision-making or shocked by something we didn't foresee. It almost dies, but we refuse to die and we find a way to survive. So anyone out there who sees the mere act of almost dying or your failure as a referendum,

And I was sitting there thinking, oh my God, we are going to make it. This is going to work. And that moment happens in every single thing I do where I'm shocked by our bad decision-making or shocked by something we didn't foresee. It almost dies, but we refuse to die and we find a way to survive. So anyone out there who sees the mere act of almost dying or your failure as a referendum,

on your future you or your worthiness, you've got it completely wrong because every single success is forged of fire, but forged of failure. And it's not cliche because I could show you every single thing I'm doing right now. We can get into the drone business if you want. Every single thing had an existential crisis where it almost died.

on your future you or your worthiness, you've got it completely wrong because every single success is forged of fire, but forged of failure. And it's not cliche because I could show you every single thing I'm doing right now. We can get into the drone business if you want. Every single thing had an existential crisis where it almost died.

And I lost faith in what I just told you right now, where I was like, it can't possibly work. This is just bullshit rhetoric. But I was like, no, but I just, I can't give up. I don't want to die. And my refusal to die, our refusal to die is the thing that makes it actually successful. And I've learned that from being around these incredible people too. And it's their formula, not just mine.

And I lost faith in what I just told you right now, where I was like, it can't possibly work. This is just bullshit rhetoric. But I was like, no, but I just, I can't give up. I don't want to die. And my refusal to die, our refusal to die is the thing that makes it actually successful. And I've learned that from being around these incredible people too. And it's their formula, not just mine.

Yeah, and I'll put it in the context of this discussion and I'll shorten it too. So way back when I wrote the first into a new sport called the Drone Racing League in 2015. And it wasn't always clear to me, will this take off? It's very hard to create a sport. Talk about something I don't recommend to anybody listening. It is so difficult. So many things have to go right.

Yeah, and I'll put it in the context of this discussion and I'll shorten it too. So way back when I wrote the first into a new sport called the Drone Racing League in 2015. And it wasn't always clear to me, will this take off? It's very hard to create a sport. Talk about something I don't recommend to anybody listening. It is so difficult. So many things have to go right.

But early on in that evolution, we realized the technology that we're inventing, the ability for drones to fly 100 miles an hour with goggles, the ability to operate in very crowded environments with cellular signals, messing up the signal between the pilot and the drone, All this stuff would one day probably be put to nefarious purposes and conflict or terrorism.

But early on in that evolution, we realized the technology that we're inventing, the ability for drones to fly 100 miles an hour with goggles, the ability to operate in very crowded environments with cellular signals, messing up the signal between the pilot and the drone, All this stuff would one day probably be put to nefarious purposes and conflict or terrorism.

And it just gave me the same feeling I used to have standing under the twin towers of 9-11, thinking like, how did this happen? How did we not see it coming? And we couldn't look away. And so quietly, a group of us created a new company in Huntsville, Alabama. It's called BDW.

And it just gave me the same feeling I used to have standing under the twin towers of 9-11, thinking like, how did this happen? How did we not see it coming? And we couldn't look away. And so quietly, a group of us created a new company in Huntsville, Alabama. It's called BDW.