Here's a story of a guy who built two Amazon businesses to eight figures who says that if you

aren't delegating, you're leaving money on the table.

Hello, everybody, and welcome to another episode of the serious sellers podcast by Helium 10. I am your host, Bradley Sutton, and this is the show that's a completely BS-free, unscripted, and unrehearsed, organic conversation about serious strategies for serious sellers of any level in the e-commerce world. We've got a serious seller on the line with me today. Derek, Derek, how's it going? Good, brother. How are you? I'm doing pretty good. Now, where are you calling from today? So, uh, we're in New York. We're actually, we are in upstate New York, though. We're right by Saratoga Springs, the racetrack for anybody familiar with that area. Yeah. No, I don't hear a strong accent. So are you from that area or from somewhere else?

Yeah, local born and raised here. I lived in the city. that area. Yeah. No, I don't hear a strong accent. So are you from that area or from somewhere else?

Yeah, local born and raised here. I lived in the city for a little while and working at a startup prior to

starting Amazon, but New York native. Okay. When you were growing up there in upstate New York,

other than freezing to death, how do you envision your future? Like as far as what you wanted to be when

you grew up, fireman, Amazon seller? Or what did you dream about? It's funny. As the kid, you know,

always the fireman, but it was funny. In college, I was the guy, you know, flipping cards on Craigslist.

You know, I was that guy always finding. So had that entrepreneurial bug early

then? Yeah, very much, very much. And, you know, getting out of college, jumping right into the

corporate world, oh man, it was, it was rough. You know, I did that for a few years, but I did

be in your experience. Business, business and marketing. Business, okay? So you got right into what you had studied and what didn't you like about the corporate

world?

I, you know, for me, I think there's a level that you can always peak in each role that you

have.

So you need to promote this role.

But I think about the entrepreneur side of it, you can really set your own pace for where

you want to go.

So I always felt capped at a corporate job if you kind of get my drift, you know, capped,

you got answered to this person, can't really get creative and test this out.

You know, team thinks it's crazy, but it could work, right?

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