I think there's an entrepreneur every, especially in this kind of high growth phase every six months.

I feel like I have to learn something new and it can feel sometimes that it's like, wow,

this is like not something that I made before, right?

This is the flavor. I'm so excited.

I have another incredible entrepreneur, Amad Akun, co-founder and CEO of the incredible

Mercury rising to the top. Obviously, the heat is on Mercury. What's going on Amad?

Yeah, I'm excited to be here. David, thanks for having me.

Thanks for coming on. Well, I love to explore the journey more than the end.

Obviously, you have had great success and we can focus on bragging about where you're at today,

but we're not going to learn anything from focusing on the end. You are a true startup founder.

You're someone that has utilized pain, setbacks, failures as a propeller, meaning it's propelled

you to a better place, a better situation. So I thought we'd start with that journey and how

as a startup founder, you have dealt with the normal pain, setbacks and failures that occur

to get you to where you are today and starting up your own bank.

Yeah, that's a good question. I would actually reframe that a little bit.

I think it's such, I know this is going to sound a bit appreciated. I think it's such a privilege

to be an entrepreneur. I get to wake up every day, do something that I'm inspired to do.

The alternative for me, and I had this for a year. I worked at Bloomberg for a year.

That was the only job I really had. It was painful. I wouldn't work that hard, but I was not

inspired. I was waking up every day. I was tired at the end of the day. It was not fun for me.

When I realized, I did my first company back in 2006. I was like, wow, this is a completely

different life and I'm loving it. It's harder work. There's a lot of failure and struggles and all

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