Ryan Leak
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And I was like, that sucks.
man, Ryan, this idea is so bad.
They won't even let you fail at it.
Like, this is terrible.
Like, what are you thinking?
But then I thought, did the Celtics just email you back?
Like, this is amazing.
Like, I'm going to make a documentary about being told no by all 30 NBA teams.
This is going to be amazing.
Like, what can we learn from no?
And so I always encourage people, you want to take notes on every single rejection because there's a lesson in there.
So they weren't actually even giving me a rejection.
They were actually giving me MBA language that I didn't have before.
So I started changing my pitch every single email.
Fifth email goes out to the Phoenix Suns.
They're like, hey, we love this idea.
Come on Monday.
I was like, Monday?
What?
Are you serious?