Boom! Shake the room fire nation, JLD herein. Welcome to Entrepreneurs on Fire. Brought to you by the HubSpot podcast network with great shows like my first million. Today we'll be breaking down Colombian coffee and investing in businesses and emerging markets.

To drop these value bombs, I brought Adam Jason into EO Fire Studios. Adam is a partner of Legacy Group and a board member of the Green Coffee Company. Previously he practiced law in the United States for eight years. He specializes in corporate finance, corporate governance, securities regulation and international business transactions.

Today's Foundation will talk about what it's like to just give it up here in the States to move down to Colombia and to make things happen. We'll talk about what it's like to run a company like the Green Coffee Company, what it's like to raise money specifically a series of funding rounds and so much more.

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Adam, say what's up to fire nation and share something that you believe about becoming successful that most people disagree with.

John, pleasure to be with you. Hello to your audience. Thanks so much for giving me this opportunity. I think for the we're talking about entrepreneurship here a lot today, obviously title of the podcast entrepreneur is on fire.

I think the entrepreneurs that have been around for some time now know this to be true, but I think there's a popular perception nowadays of the all knowing visionary that starts a business and basically puts it on its back and carries it through.

And I think for for success as an entrepreneur and really I think life in general, it's if you're trying to build something lasting and something that kind of extends beyond you, really it's more about finding and putting yourself in a position to work with the right people.

I think entrepreneurship is really guided more so by setting the right vision establishing the values for the organization that you have really working hard to get traction behind it so other people buy into your vision and that gives you resources and then you can find recruit motivate the best possible people to to be around you.

So I think you know, as Warren Buffett says, it's really about finding 400 hitters giving them the bat and letting them swing. So I think it's good advice for life, good advice for good business entrepreneurship in general to make sure you're always putting yourself around the best possible people and doing what you're best at while allowing others to do the same.

Listen, whenever we're starting the episode with a Warren Buffett quote fire nation, you know we're headed in the right direction and as Adam shared, we are going to be talking about entrepreneurs on fire because that is the name of the podcast.

That's what we talk about specifically Columbia coffee and investing in businesses and emerging markets and a lot of people at them, the dream of moving to some South American country or maybe the Mexican coast and living the good life, but you've actually done it to a degree.

So tell us your story of moving to Columbia after being a corporate attorney in the US.

Sure, it's exciting to share. I am talking to you today from Medellin Columbia, I've been here for the last five years.

As you mentioned, my background is pretty corporate. I out of law school started working at what the at the time was the largest law firm in the world doing IPO's public private equity and debt finance things for Fortune 500 companies Wall Street banks etc.

I did that for about 10 years in the US. I was at the kind of point in my career where you decide do you want to be a partner at the law firm?

Do you want to go in house and work for a client or do you want to do something more entrepreneurial?

I didn't have, I'd say, the vision of, oh, I got to do something in South America and leave the US and do something completely different, but I did have that entrepreneurial itch for I'd say a pretty extended period of time during the back half of my time at the law firm.

As it often does, life circumstances handed me some good luck. I had a job offer from a law firm in Houston. I was in Dallas at the time and there was a month break between the new job and the old job.

I decided to do some traveling. My background is pretty sequential. What people would be used to, high school to college, to law school, to a career without having done a traveling or the year off that a lot of people do or exploring the world etc.

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