David Royce - 4x Exited Entrepreneur ($500M) | Following Your Dreams Can Keep You Broke
Success Story with Scott D. Clary
Success Story Media
4.6 • 326 Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2025
⏱️ 79 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | HubSpot is a success story partner. Now, if you're an entrepreneur, listen up because HubSpot |
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| 0:45.4 | growth like this, visit HubSpot.com. I'd say in sales, it isn't just like what you say, |
| 0:51.7 | but it's how you say it. Becoming an expert something, to try to follow your passion, I think that's a tough sale. Because, number one, there's a lot of passion industries out there. The average person in those industry doesn't make a lot. So following your passion can actually be dangerous. I wasn't passionate about pest control in the beginning, but I was really good at. Go out and get experience and try things when you're young. This is David Royce. He didn't raise a single dollar of venture capital. He didn't follow Silicon Valley's playbook. And yet, he built not one, not two, but three multi-million dollar companies, including active environmental, one of the fastest growing pest control firms in America. Everything is hard before it is easy. I don't care how smart you are. If you work eight hours a day and I'm working 16, you're not going to catch up to me. |
| 1:30.3 | What do you think one of the most important ideas that helped you succeed? |
| 1:34.3 | I think smart. |
| 1:36.3 | This isn't a story about business. |
| 1:38.3 | It's a story about systems, belief, and a sixth grade teacher who changed everything. |
| 1:42.3 | And this is the conversation that might just change how you see discipline, success, and what it really takes to build an empire from nothing. I don't think being an entrepreneur is about an in-destination. It's not about a building an exit. It's the journey. I feel like our education system needs a remake. At this point, I feel like the first two years of GEs, I think we should be able to |
| 2:01.7 | pick whatever classes we want to take. |
| 2:13.2 | David, you've said that you were the accidental entrepreneur. |
| 2:18.4 | So explain to me what that means. |
| 2:20.2 | You know, I'd say it's something that I just kind of fell into. |
| 2:24.0 | So it was, it starts to goes back to when I was in college, like I broke college student |
| 2:28.7 | and I had a friend come to me and say, hey, I made 25 grand last summer, you know, so it's |
| 2:33.5 | 25 years ago, so it's probably like 50 grand today. |
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