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Nathan Berry

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1489 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ConvertKit's Shocking Growth to $25m Revenue, Power of Creator Economy

And so I basically asked my parents, um, Hey, is high school four years or is high school a set amount of work?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ConvertKit's Shocking Growth to $25m Revenue, Power of Creator Economy

And to their credit, they said like, Oh, it's, it's a set amount of work.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ConvertKit's Shocking Growth to $25m Revenue, Power of Creator Economy

And I was like, great.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ConvertKit's Shocking Growth to $25m Revenue, Power of Creator Economy

Can I have that in to-do list form?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ConvertKit's Shocking Growth to $25m Revenue, Power of Creator Economy

Because basically all my friends were going to graduate two years before I was and go off to college and I didn't want to be left behind.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ConvertKit's Shocking Growth to $25m Revenue, Power of Creator Economy

Um, and so, um,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ConvertKit's Shocking Growth to $25m Revenue, Power of Creator Economy

when my parents listed all out and I had older siblings, you know, who had finished high school already.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ConvertKit's Shocking Growth to $25m Revenue, Power of Creator Economy

And so they had already figured out like, this will be all the homeschooling curriculum.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ConvertKit's Shocking Growth to $25m Revenue, Power of Creator Economy

Then I just sat down and knocked it out.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ConvertKit's Shocking Growth to $25m Revenue, Power of Creator Economy

And I remember thinking like,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ConvertKit's Shocking Growth to $25m Revenue, Power of Creator Economy

I'm bored when we go on these family road trips from Boise to Seattle every summer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ConvertKit's Shocking Growth to $25m Revenue, Power of Creator Economy

I'm also bored when I do algebra.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ConvertKit's Shocking Growth to $25m Revenue, Power of Creator Economy

So why don't I combine these things?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ConvertKit's Shocking Growth to $25m Revenue, Power of Creator Economy

And on like an eight hour drive, I do a month's worth of algebra lessons or something.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ConvertKit's Shocking Growth to $25m Revenue, Power of Creator Economy

And so then I graduated high school when I was 15 and started going to college.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ConvertKit's Shocking Growth to $25m Revenue, Power of Creator Economy

And graduated college how old?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ConvertKit's Shocking Growth to $25m Revenue, Power of Creator Economy

I dropped out of college at 17.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ConvertKit's Shocking Growth to $25m Revenue, Power of Creator Economy

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ConvertKit's Shocking Growth to $25m Revenue, Power of Creator Economy

So I was going to college to learn how to make money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ConvertKit's Shocking Growth to $25m Revenue, Power of Creator Economy

This was all a quest of, I want to figure out how I can make money, um, and you know, earn a living and, and eventually become financially independent.