Michael Chernow

I did not go to college.

I don't have...

Like, I'm not good at math.

I'm not good at numbers.

When I sold my equity at the meatball shop, I saw seven figures enter my bank account.

And it wasn't a monstrous seven figure, but it was for starting a company with 20,000 bucks.

It was a really good return.

But the feeling that I got that day was different than stuff that I've heard from other founders where it's like, oh, great, you have this exit and you fall into a depression.

I didn't have that feeling at all.

I sold the company.

My life changed pretty quickly.

I made it a commitment to myself to not at all allow this to change who I was.

I started another business nine months later.

So, you know, I, and you know, I made one, I made two purchases, two purchases.

I bought my wife and I a house in upstate New York for not a lot of money.

And that's the house that we now live in.

So it was a really good, it was a really good purchase.

And I did buy one thing that was kind of goofy.

I did buy myself a Rolex.

So I bought myself my first Rolex