Michael Slavin

I decided to write the book because I wanted to give back.

I love the military, and I was in for 10 years, recruited out.

And when they recruited me out, the folks that brought me out didn't quite treat me right, and I was on the street.

So I struggled badly for seven years, lost everything, bankrupt, foreclosure, the whole nine yards.

I knew I could do anything, but I just didn't quite know how.

And finally, I started my own company after those seven years.

And three and a half years later, I had my first million dollars in the bank.

And so how did you get that first million dollars?

The first million dollars was, well, first of all, I didn't like the company I was with again.

Which was who?

They're no longer around.

It really doesn't matter.

But they were an oil and gas company.

Okay.

no it was a much smaller company all right but uh i didn't like the way they were doing business i wrote a business plan over the weekend and in the next week and a half i raised two hundred and three thousand dollars and that was from four people they weren't friends or family they were business acquaintances and one was a complete stranger i didn't even know a week before i met him at a gas station told him what i was doing and he gave me sixty thousand dollars and about a week later

And I talk about that later in my Undiscovered Investors.

But I raised that money, started my own company.

And three and a half years later, I had the million dollars.

What was the name of the company and what did it do?

My company was U.S.