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Mitch Russo

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
222 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
930 How a $10m Software Guy Ends up In Furniture Business and Tony Robbins

Then what?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
930 How a $10m Software Guy Ends up In Furniture Business and Tony Robbins

Uh, then I get interested in investing in stocks and options.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
930 How a $10m Software Guy Ends up In Furniture Business and Tony Robbins

So I went back to school to learn how to become an options investor.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
930 How a $10m Software Guy Ends up In Furniture Business and Tony Robbins

So I became a professional options trader with a mentor on the Chicago Board of Trade for two years.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
930 How a $10m Software Guy Ends up In Furniture Business and Tony Robbins

Sure.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
930 How a $10m Software Guy Ends up In Furniture Business and Tony Robbins

So at that point, Chet and I had been friends for years.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
930 How a $10m Software Guy Ends up In Furniture Business and Tony Robbins

Chet asks for some help.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
930 How a $10m Software Guy Ends up In Furniture Business and Tony Robbins

I bring, Chet brings me into the company and I do my thing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
930 How a $10m Software Guy Ends up In Furniture Business and Tony Robbins

We're growing like crazy now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
930 How a $10m Software Guy Ends up In Furniture Business and Tony Robbins

Chet is not working with Tony.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
930 How a $10m Software Guy Ends up In Furniture Business and Tony Robbins

Chet is just Chet, but he brings me in and we grow in his little company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
930 How a $10m Software Guy Ends up In Furniture Business and Tony Robbins

And then he and Tony Robbins start a conversation.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
930 How a $10m Software Guy Ends up In Furniture Business and Tony Robbins

We bring Tony into the picture.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
930 How a $10m Software Guy Ends up In Furniture Business and Tony Robbins

We negotiate for months.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
930 How a $10m Software Guy Ends up In Furniture Business and Tony Robbins

We come up with the ultimate business mastery summit, which is where we launched

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
930 How a $10m Software Guy Ends up In Furniture Business and Tony Robbins

the Business Breakthroughs International.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
930 How a $10m Software Guy Ends up In Furniture Business and Tony Robbins

Together, Chet, myself, and Tony were partners in that company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
930 How a $10m Software Guy Ends up In Furniture Business and Tony Robbins

We grew it for almost five years, 25 million in sales, and that's when Chet died.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
930 How a $10m Software Guy Ends up In Furniture Business and Tony Robbins

Well, at the point where Chet had passed away, we had a succession plan in place

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
930 How a $10m Software Guy Ends up In Furniture Business and Tony Robbins

Tony and I had met several times about how to take the company forward.