Ric Elias
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I can compete in college.
I can compete in Japan.
I can be okay.
I can figure it out.
I have tools.
And I got a lot of confidence.
And I finished business school and everybody was going to McKinsey or investment banking.
I'm like, you know what?
I've always kind of listened to a different radio station than most.
And I always knew I wanted
to run a business, start a business.
I wanted to be independent.
I have a story of my grandpa someday I'll tell you, but that was my vision to be independent.
I was like, I'm going to learn.
A professor told me, if that's what you want, go and learn on someone else's nickel.
And that's what I did.
And that's where I met Dan.
That's where I met Brenda, my wife.
And, you know, at 30,
Which is the change of decades.