Scott Trench

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696 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2025 last heard Sep 2025

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Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha: Entrepreneurship and Self-Improvement Podcast · Scott Trench: How to Fast-Track Financial Freedom and Early Retirement | Finance | E367 · 8 Sep 2025 podcast

And missing so many times too, right?

It's like this thing, nine out of 10 businesses fail.

So you start 10 businesses.

That's a big path of entrepreneurship or getting things started in a small business.

It's funny, in the entire time I worked at BiggerPockets, I never asked for a raise.

I don't think I ever asked for a compensation adjustment or anything.

I just said yes to essentially all the opportunities that came my way for the founder.

And in those early days, I was 100% loyal.

I've always been 100% loyal to shareholders, but it was 100% loyalty to Josh as an individual and the company at the same time, right?

And it was just, how can I help?

What can I do here?

I also just loved the mission.

So I would work all day at my job as director of operations, which at a startup means you get the coffee and you do revenue and all the other things in between, right?

And I would just say yes to those opportunities and things began to develop.

Would you like to do this?

Hey, there's a sales thing here.

Sure, I'd love to go and sell this revenue and earn more money.

And eventually, come 2017, founder had to step away.

He said, we're going to sell the company, which makes a ton of sense because you're not going to leave your large company in the hands of 27-year-old Scott at that point.

So we decided to go through the sale process in 2018.

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