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I Failed 12 Times Before Making My First Million (Here's Every Failure)

Name: I Failed 12 Times Before Making My First Million (Here's Every Failure)
Uploaded: 2025-12-06T21:32:18.887Z
Duration: 58 min 39 s
Description: The speaker failed at 12 businesses over 10 years—including a sushi restaurant, drop-shipped wristbands, a biotech coal-to-gas venture, and multiple social apps—before finally succeeding with a high-school Fortnite esports league acquired by Twitch, netting his first million at age 30.

From My First Million · Published Dec 6, 2025 · Watch on YouTube

TL;DR

The speaker failed at 12 businesses over 10 years—including a sushi restaurant, drop-shipped wristbands, a biotech coal-to-gas venture, and multiple social apps—before finally succeeding with a high-school Fortnite esports league acquired by Twitch, netting his first million at age 30.

Key insights

The first business is usually the worst business, but starting gives momentum and reduces fear for the next attempt.
Creativity loves constraints: setting a 48-hour timebox to get a real customer forced rapid action and revealed that action produces information faster than planning.
Instead of trying to catch up to experts in their domain, find a skill they don't have (e.g., animating videos for a biotech billionaire) and become the best at that.

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