Every Business I Tried Before Making My First Million

Alright, everyone. In this podcast, we talk a lot about the successes, but I wanna talk about the failures. So here's about 10 different companies that I started before I made my first million. Almost all of them, they sucked. It didn't work. But I'm gonna explain how much I made for each idea and the lesson that I learned. Alright. What's up, Sam? What's going on? Let's set this up. Name of this podcast, My First Million. When did you make your first million? So cash, like, cash million, I made it when my wife worked at Airbnb, and it went public. And that that's when we made our first. And then about three months later, I think it went later in December. My company sold in February, and then we made a lot. Leading up to that, we were doing pretty good too, but I don't think we had crossed 1,000,000. Okay. So you made your first million. Let's call it thirty one years old. Here's all the businesses you tried before that, before making your first million, which I think is pretty fascinating. I wanna go down this list. Does it start in high school? Yeah. Alright. Go go for it. Give me number one. In high school, I made $2,500 one summer by buying graduating seniors old sports equipment and selling it on eBay. And so what I used to do is I would just buy, like, people's, like, track spikes or, you know, whatever, and I would sell it on eBay. And most of the time, I didn't buy it. They would just give it to me. They would hand it to me. And I on eBay, I made $2,500 That was my first business where I actually started making online money. And this is flipping, basically. This is flipping assets that other people not only undervalue, they might even to the not value to the point where they're just happy you took it off their hands. Yeah. And frankly, I did this in college too, which I didn't list here is when, at the end of the college year, I would I would stay a few weeks after the end of the school year. And when people were moving out, I said, I have a storage unit. You can come and put it here and just give it to me. If you're gonna throw it away, just give it to me, and then I'll and I would resell it. Exact I saw people doing this in college with textbooks. They would just say, oh, at the end of the year, you don't wanna take all these heavy textbooks home. You're done with that class. Well, guess what? The next semester, there's a bunch of people that are gonna need that exact textbook that were happy to buy it used. And so they would just go buy up people's tech they would just take people's textbooks, and they each book was like, you know, a …