Patrick McGinnis

Yeah, so I'm a Wall Street refugee.

I was a victim of the 2008 financial crisis.

I was working at AIG at the time.

I did not cause it, though.

And that convinced me, basically, I never wanted to rely on corporate America again.

So I started my own advisory firm.

It's basically, you know, consulting work that pays the bills.

But on the side, to build real wealth, I built up a portfolio of over 20 investments in startups and real estate and even a theater production in London.

And over the last five years, that's what I've been focusing on to really build that business.

And this is Dirigo Investors?

No, Dirigo is my advisory firm.

This is all on the side, Patrick.

So, the first thing I ever did when I started building what I call my 10%, a good friend of mine called me, a former colleague, and asked me to work on a startup with him that was working with YouTube celebs to promote branded video using their fan bases.

and so i started you know working with him for free i got some stock in his company which company was this it was called real influence and uh i made a bunch of intros and we sold thanks to the intros i made we sold about three or four hundred thousand dollars worth of work um but the company never really took off so i sold my shares back i got a couple thousand dollars i didn't become a millionaire out of that became a thousand air but my buddy went on to the upside you didn't just get your money back

More than that, I learned how to sell.

I'd never sold anything.

And I sat in front of somebody and sold something that was a PowerPoint.

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And then we, you know, we all moved on with our lives.