Rob Walling

I talk about making $4.50 an hour starting, and I made a little more than that by the time I left.

But seeing executives and project managers who were busy, and who were, some of them entrepreneurial in their own right, and that they would...

You know, they would make a percentage of the net profit on their projects.

So they were highly motivated to execute really well and highly motivated to get a lot done.

It kind of taught me this lesson again, right?

Of like, don't escalate stuff unless I really need to.

Don't put it back on them.

And it also...

I think was a decent model for me as I became an entrepreneur of, oh, I should respect my time too.

I should not waste my time or care about little minutia when I really need to be looking at the big picture.

The third lesson I learned is that self-education can compound pretty fast.

The context for this is I was in the car a lot.

Long hours alone meant that I could listen to a lot of music, which I did, tons of Beatles.

This is where I actually really developed that love I have of the Beatles and Bob Dylan.

but it also meant a lot of time for audio books.

And this was before Audible.

That's how old I am.

So it was books on tape and CDs.

And, you know, you can think of the classics, right?

There's good to great.