And every company that you build you have to have an exit strategy.

This is entrepreneurship.

It's not a game for the weak.

Now I think about a company as a transaction. It's not my identity.

It's just a numbers game, somewhere or somewhere. So what? Who's next?

What are you talking to? What are you doing? How are you?

Awesome. Thanks for having me. My name is Bill Lyons.

I own three companies inside the real estate industry. One of them is Griffin Funding.

We do mortgage lending in four states. Another one is called Lyons Realty,

which is a unique real estate company here in San Diego.

And then I also have a technology platform called ReVester, where we help investors find AirBnB and long-term rentals.

And all that good stuff here locally in San Diego. And I'm also on the board of a FinTech startup called Approved,

which is a digital mortgage platform. It's kind of like a rocket mortgage.

So I got a lot going on. And I started as an entrepreneur in high school, actually.

So what are you doing, high school, to get started off your story there?

You know, it was actually Network Marketing, an MLM.

You know, I don't recommend MLMs or Network Marketing. I would never do one myself or recommend them to anyone.

But as a young person, I think it's a great idea for less than 500 bucks to learn how to sell,

learn how to build teams, and learn from some people that are doing successful.

So it was good at the time for me in high school going into college.

It helped me pay for college, which was pretty cool.

But that was my first experience as an entrepreneur.

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