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Stig Brodersen

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
150 total appearances

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Case For Quitting Your $100k Corporate Job with Stig Brodersen of We Study Billionaires

Sorry for that metaphor.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Case For Quitting Your $100k Corporate Job with Stig Brodersen of We Study Billionaires

Well, I think that's really a great question because it's definitely something that I've been thinking a lot about myself.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Case For Quitting Your $100k Corporate Job with Stig Brodersen of We Study Billionaires

Otherwise, obviously, I wouldn't quit my job.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Case For Quitting Your $100k Corporate Job with Stig Brodersen of We Study Billionaires

But I think it really relates back to Warren Buffett because Warren Buffett has

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Case For Quitting Your $100k Corporate Job with Stig Brodersen of We Study Billionaires

he's saying that he has this blank canvas and every time that he goes to work he feels like he's tap dancing because he can paint whatever he wants to paint on this canvas and i don't know how familiar you are with working like as a trader what they do but tell us about that tell us dig dive dive before you talk about warren buffett and how he inspired you to switch dig deep into what your life as a commodities trader looked like

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Case For Quitting Your $100k Corporate Job with Stig Brodersen of We Study Billionaires

You worked a lot of really long hours.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Case For Quitting Your $100k Corporate Job with Stig Brodersen of We Study Billionaires

How long?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Case For Quitting Your $100k Corporate Job with Stig Brodersen of We Study Billionaires

Yeah, well, basically, so this was a trading company and we were trading power.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Case For Quitting Your $100k Corporate Job with Stig Brodersen of We Study Billionaires

So that was 24-7.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Case For Quitting Your $100k Corporate Job with Stig Brodersen of We Study Billionaires

Well, obviously, I wasn't working 24-7 because you can't do that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Case For Quitting Your $100k Corporate Job with Stig Brodersen of We Study Billionaires

But the exchanges, they were never closed.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Case For Quitting Your $100k Corporate Job with Stig Brodersen of We Study Billionaires

It's not like the stock market that's closed like eight hours a day.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Case For Quitting Your $100k Corporate Job with Stig Brodersen of We Study Billionaires

They were on 24 hours.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Case For Quitting Your $100k Corporate Job with Stig Brodersen of We Study Billionaires

So people would literally come into the office and then sleep and then get up the next morning and start working again.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Case For Quitting Your $100k Corporate Job with Stig Brodersen of We Study Billionaires

So-

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Case For Quitting Your $100k Corporate Job with Stig Brodersen of We Study Billionaires

That's tough, and that's definitely not something for me.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Case For Quitting Your $100k Corporate Job with Stig Brodersen of We Study Billionaires

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Case For Quitting Your $100k Corporate Job with Stig Brodersen of We Study Billionaires

So that was partly like a base salary and then you'll get a bonus.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Case For Quitting Your $100k Corporate Job with Stig Brodersen of We Study Billionaires

And usually the bonus was more attractive than your base salary.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Case For Quitting Your $100k Corporate Job with Stig Brodersen of We Study Billionaires

I guess that's how it is for most traders.