You are listening to the 10 minute entrepreneur podcast with host Sean Castrina.

Today's a great podcast. I have Philip Smith with me here today. He is

partnered with Kevin Harrington, one of the original Shark Tanks. They have done

all in one marketing. com and some other business ventures

Philip it's great to have you on the podcast yeah thank you for having me

okay i i always like to find out when did you know you were an entrepreneur and

how did it hit you so So it's funny, you know, in fifth grade I started a paper

out so I kind of learned about how to go out there and be you know kind of being my home boss

technically I was delivering I was going to pay for

newspapers I got paid from the you know the customers and then in seventh grade I was

selling blow pops in school and you know I just always just had it in me I did have family

members you know as younger had businesses and stuff but I didn't really know

about it till about 23 as when I first started my first business.

I had a choice between getting a job after I did my internship,

they offered me a job, and then at the same time I got offered to start my own company and I asked someone at the time who was a wealthy businessman and then I also asked my dad and my dad said to go get the job because that's all he knew and the other guy said go start a business because that's basically all he knew so to me I asked myself who do I want to be like you know when I when I grow up and I wanted to be more like the guy with all the money.

So, yeah, that's a tough decision.

So he said, take a shot. You're young if you fail you can always get a job. So I did.

No, it's so true that it is always to revert back to a job theory and it's

amazing you know in our generation getting a good job was like the one thing that was always

fed in your head.

And now I literally, you know, as an older person go,

okay, what is that great job?

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