Priit Martin

I was just as scared, so that part didn't go away. But by that time, I had somehow developed my discipline muscle a lot. I had done sports and pushed myself to, I don't know, run laps sometimes. During summer breaks around my house and silly stuff like that. So one thing I was very good at, I was good at following a plan.

I was just as scared, so that part didn't go away. But by that time, I had somehow developed my discipline muscle a lot. I had done sports and pushed myself to, I don't know, run laps sometimes. During summer breaks around my house and silly stuff like that. So one thing I was very good at, I was good at following a plan.

And one of the good lessons that I got from my first summer is that experience is valuable and it makes sense to listen to somebody who has done well at what you want to do. So going into my first year, I had a plan. I had a plan that I would do everything 100%. If everything would go smoothly, nice, right? I have a good summer. And if it would be a disaster, I could blame my brother.

And one of the good lessons that I got from my first summer is that experience is valuable and it makes sense to listen to somebody who has done well at what you want to do. So going into my first year, I had a plan. I had a plan that I would do everything 100%. If everything would go smoothly, nice, right? I have a good summer. And if it would be a disaster, I could blame my brother.

So it was a very solid plan. You know, work like crazy, do your demos in sales, you know, all of those things. And I did everything by the book exactly. And I actually ended up being number one first year from Europe.

So it was a very solid plan. You know, work like crazy, do your demos in sales, you know, all of those things. And I did everything by the book exactly. And I actually ended up being number one first year from Europe.

Yeah. It taught me that communication, you know, being good with people, it is not something that you either have or you don't, that it's some sort of magic skill. But if you practice it, you get better, number one, and you lose the fear as it is with everything, right? Yeah.

Yeah. It taught me that communication, you know, being good with people, it is not something that you either have or you don't, that it's some sort of magic skill. But if you practice it, you get better, number one, and you lose the fear as it is with everything, right? Yeah.

I never stopped selling books. I was on the book field myself for, I think it was eight years. And then I became a district sales leader. And up until 2020, when COVID hit, I was a DSL. But 2020 was a very tragic year for very many people. It changed a lot of lives and it changed a lot of ways we do things. But honestly, I have to say that for me, looking back, it was a very, very good year.

I never stopped selling books. I was on the book field myself for, I think it was eight years. And then I became a district sales leader. And up until 2020, when COVID hit, I was a DSL. But 2020 was a very tragic year for very many people. It changed a lot of lives and it changed a lot of ways we do things. But honestly, I have to say that for me, looking back, it was a very, very good year.

I had some personal changes that I went through. I actually had a divorce, which I thought that would never happen to me. And that was very, very hard, but it was also absolutely a positive thing in the end. And having gone through that, I just got to figure that it is a good year for change. So this other opportunity of joining Ventures presented itself and it wasn't a very big change.

I had some personal changes that I went through. I actually had a divorce, which I thought that would never happen to me. And that was very, very hard, but it was also absolutely a positive thing in the end. And having gone through that, I just got to figure that it is a good year for change. So this other opportunity of joining Ventures presented itself and it wasn't a very big change.

I changed the country where I operated in and I changed like the product, but everything else kind of stayed the same. Like most of the people around me stay the same, the values that we have, a lot of the methods. And so it was like a safe way to get myself on a new track.

I changed the country where I operated in and I changed like the product, but everything else kind of stayed the same. Like most of the people around me stay the same, the values that we have, a lot of the methods. And so it was like a safe way to get myself on a new track.

By much more difficult, if you mean impossible, then yes, that was accurate. There were, I think it was... even more than 500 people in our organization. So students from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, who had trained for the whole year, paid for the visa and the work permit and everything already. And then COVID hit in March, April.

By much more difficult, if you mean impossible, then yes, that was accurate. There were, I think it was... even more than 500 people in our organization. So students from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, who had trained for the whole year, paid for the visa and the work permit and everything already. And then COVID hit in March, April.

So suddenly they had no outlet to do the thing they were selected to do. So the challenge for us was to find something to do for, you know, four, five, 600 people in the span of one month. So that's kind of how Ventures, what it is today, got like its first real boost.

So suddenly they had no outlet to do the thing they were selected to do. So the challenge for us was to find something to do for, you know, four, five, 600 people in the span of one month. So that's kind of how Ventures, what it is today, got like its first real boost.

A lot of the students, they switched from selling books to doing fundraising or selling these smart local arm service to families in Europe. And it was a lot of work. And I was asked to help out with that just in the beginning. And I started putting more and more time. And by the fall of that year, so after the summer, I had actually made a transition to ventures out of the book selling business.

A lot of the students, they switched from selling books to doing fundraising or selling these smart local arm service to families in Europe. And it was a lot of work. And I was asked to help out with that just in the beginning. And I started putting more and more time. And by the fall of that year, so after the summer, I had actually made a transition to ventures out of the book selling business.