And I see that happen all the time where I've talked to people and I think you like get in your

head, you have like one hit of success. And then you think, oh, like I'm going to break out and like

build this whole new market, a whole new thing. And then what you realize is that people actually just

don't find that valuable. And it's been attempted to do to be done before. And it's just not a good idea.

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Today, what I want to share with you is the worst advice I hear people give entrepreneurs who are

looking to start a business.

I am talking about this advice because it is the advice that I heard in the beginning and

that me and Alex talked about and we didn't follow. And I'm really glad we didn't follow it because I think a lot of advice

is given entrepreneurs outside of context, right? I think that a lot of the traditional advice

that we hear is actually geared towards people who are, you know, who have hit a 10 out of 10

home run. What I mean is like the founders Facebook of Zappos of, you know, who have hit a 10 out of 10 home run. What I mean is like the founders,

Facebook, of Zappos, of, you know, Twitter, like all of those kind of people and people

who are looking and interested in having those kinds of businesses. And I think those are

awesome businesses. I don't look to start a business like that. And we do not typically

work with businesses like that because there's high risk,

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