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 Failure

A talk about my personal failures in life, and how grit, humility and a lot of learning got me through

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Transcript

  1. Hi. @iamctodd

  2. October 6, 2005

  3. You’re fired.

  4. December 14, 2009

  5. Let’s start a business! Parking? In Spain? It’ll be a

    HIT!!
  6. None
  7. None
  8. None
  9. None

  10. early 2011

  11. None

  12. Sorry, No more contractors. Big client #1 April 2012

  13. Sorry, No more contractors. My other big client May 2012

  14. failure...?

  15. STOP LOOKING FOR perfect

  16. It doesn’t exist.

  17. None
  18. None

  19. Thank you