An INSANE Reversal of Fortune with Louis Ziskin
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2017
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Louis, founder/CEO of DropIn began his career launching a global supply chain venture. While lucrative, this business model resulted in some unanticipated consequences… a 12-year prison stay.
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| 0:00.0 | Fire Nation in the house, JLD here and welcome the episode 1872 of EO Fire. We're |
| 0:10.8 | right chat with entrepreneurs on fire seven days a week. Check out our free |
| 0:16.2 | podcasting course so that you can create, grow and monetize your podcast. Free |
| 0:21.6 | podcast course.com. Now let's chat with today's featured guest, Louis |
| 0:27.3 | Ziskin. Louis, are you prepared to ignite? Absolutely. Yes. Louis is the |
| 0:34.6 | founder of Drop In. While lucrative, this business model resulted in some |
| 0:39.2 | unanticipated consequences, a 12 year prison stay to share just one. Louis |
| 0:46.1 | take a minute, fill in some gaps from that intro and give us a little glimpse |
| 0:49.3 | of your personal life. Okay, I traffic drugs to Europe and back and was a huge |
| 0:54.6 | mistake. I made my life a complete miscalculation and I ended up doing 12 |
| 0:58.6 | years in federal prison because of it. Originally it was a 30 year sentence |
| 1:02.7 | plus a second indictment looking to put me in for life after that and I fired |
| 1:08.6 | my attorneys. I represented myself. I beat the life case. I was able to get |
| 1:12.3 | it reduced to 15 and a half. I did 12 on that. Came home October 18th the day |
| 1:17.7 | after my birthday in 2012 and I got off parole July 26th 2016 almost a year, a |
| 1:26.6 | little bit more than a year after I started dropping. Wow. Well, number one |
| 1:31.1 | congratulations. I actually went to law school. So I know how useless lawyers are |
| 1:35.8 | absolutely. So definitely a good move representing yourself there. And number |
| 1:39.6 | two, you know, I just love that you got back. You got right down to business and |
| 1:42.3 | then here you are the founder of Drop In, which I want to talk more about in a |
| 1:46.1 | minute here, but first and foremost, Lewis, what's your current area of expertise? |
| 1:50.5 | What do you specialize in? Well, right now it seems like I specialize in |
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