Light that sparkfire nation, a JLD here and welcomed episode 1623 of EO Fire. Right

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let's show it today's featured guest, Evan Carmichael. Evan, are you prepared to ignite?

Let's do it man. 1623 is my new favorite number.

Love it. Evan hashtag believes in entrepreneurs at 19. He built and sold the biotech software

company in a 22. He was a venture capitalist. He now runs a very popular website in YouTube

channel for entrepreneurs. He is the author of your one word. And he's aiming to help one

billion entrepreneurs change the world. Evan, take a minute. Fill in some gaps from that

and show and give us little glimpse into your personal life. Sure. I can do a quick overview

and then whatever you want to go deeper on, let me know man. I had entrepreneurial tendencies

my whole life. My first thing was when I was five years old, I sold my paintings with

my three year little sister to my neighbor for 10 cents. And that was the first 10 cents

that I've ever earned. I had all kinds of little mini businesses, baseball cards and a bunch

of different things growing up. But I thought I wanted to be a banker. My house, your book

said it was going to be a banker, met two entrepreneurs university joined with them. We

sucked at the beginning failed a lot. Turned down huge jobs to do it. Turned the company around,

sold it, became a VC. Stop doing that. Help. I loved helping entrepreneurs and just built the

website and YouTube channel and my personal mission and passion around that. Launched the book

last year. And I'm excited to be here, man. Well, I will say fire nation. Evan's YouTube channel

is well worth the view edge. He actually just did a little feature on myself, which I was really

honored by. The video came out great. So thank you for that, Evan. And we'll link that up in

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