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Why they did it and get exposure to the world of exits. It's a world occupied by a small few but accessible to many on this episode of the exit.

I sit down with red snot grass. He's a fantastic entrepreneur who walks through his journey of getting the entrepreneurial bug all the way to scaling his business to 75 employees and going through a kind of a tumultuous exit with read right.

And if you're thinking maybe I've heard that brand before you probably have is a massive publication and reds did an incredible job of growing it into this accelerator that had over 100 startups going through it and very much like a YC tech crunch marriage.

He had this open to entrepreneurs from all walks of life where they could go through the accelerator, get exposure through read right.

And it was a really incredible relationship that he developed between the US and China and his company to pass IP and he walks through what happened after 2016.

And it's a really great story and the way that he unpacks it is brilliant because you can understand that when you're at a certain scale and you have a mission, you have a vision, things can happen that are out of your control that can completely just derail your mission.

And Reg has had multiple successes, really great successes in his in his career. And his finale question is something that everybody should listen to.

So definitely stick around to the end because it's about your tribe, the people that you come up with, the people that you start businesses alongside not necessarily with the people that you moved to Silicon Valley with, for example, with what what Reg talks about.

When all those people are millionaires or they're all doing well, that's a win for the collective tribe. And I think it's such a cool way of looking at life and has been entrepreneur where you can kind of walk into the gauntlet of your next venture because you know that your tribe is is backing you and I think it's such a wise approach.

So a really wide ranging conversation here with red fantastic to sit down with such a legendary entrepreneur. So without further ado, let's sit down here on the exit with red snoggrass.

All right, I am here with red snoggrass and he is the co founder and CEO of edge and how's it going? Reg, thank you very much Steve glad to be here.

Yeah, yeah, I'm excited to unpack your success and one pack some of the stories there and we were talking offline before this and I'm eager to hear more, but before we do unpack some of the crazy experiences you've had, let's talk about your background, what got you started in business and entrepreneurship.

No, you know, I think a lot of us, we don't know who we're going to be or what we're going to do and I was, you know, 27, you know, really trying to figure that out. I got offered a role at square trade, which at the time was an eBay startup, super, super tiny group.

I had to build a warranty division. I went from an intern to managing like through the company in six months. I thought it was going to be a rock star. I thought starters were for me, worked with a guy trying to do a startup right after that. So I caught the bug of what it's like to go from zero to a million in revenue in a few months and that, you know, that rush right keeps me coming back.

Yeah, yeah, that whole like market pulling you feeling of giving something of value out there is pretty pretty incredible bug that you can't shake.

Yeah, you know, and it drove me on. I mean, it's, you know, you propel yourself for an ignorance, you know, and energy when you're younger.

And so I, I went and joined a small analyst group called under the radar and learned about the mobile industry and found the startup called Scout. And I jumped immediately at the chance it was a first iPhone dating app.

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