MI003: College Dropout to Multi-Millionaire with Nathan Latka (Entrepreneurship Podcast)
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4.6 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2019
⏱️ 39 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to TIP. |
| 0:02.6 | Hey, everyone. |
| 0:03.3 | On today's show, I sit down with Nathan Lacka to talk about how to start a business without |
| 0:07.7 | any capital, why entrepreneurship isn't as risky as most people think, why you should |
| 0:12.9 | copy your competitors, and much, much more. |
| 0:15.9 | For those of you who don't know who Nathan is, he is a Wall Street Journal bestselling |
| 0:19.9 | author, a popular podcast host, |
| 0:22.6 | and was a self-made multimillionaire before the age of 25. I hope you guys enjoy this very |
| 0:27.7 | inspiring and actionable conversation with Nathan Latka. |
| 0:32.7 | You're listening to Millennial Investing by the Investors Podcast Network, where your host, Robert Leonard, |
| 0:39.0 | interview successful entrepreneurs, business leaders and investors to help educate and inspire |
| 0:44.4 | the millennial generation. |
| 1:11.5 | Welcome to the show. I'm your host, Robert Leonard, and I have Nathan Lacka here with me today. Welcome to the show, Nathan. Robert, you got me the right time. You know, I think from the home millennial perspective, once I turn 30, I'm like not as cool anymore. So you got me at the right age here. Yeah, just in time. Just in time. |
| 1:17.2 | Let's get started by going back a bit to your college days. You started down a traditional path like most people do these days, going to college. You were enrolled in an undergraduate |
| 1:21.9 | program, architecture, if I am correct, at a great university. Why didn't you finish the programming continue on the |
| 1:29.1 | traditional past of a corporate career? What gave you the motivation and desire to become an |
| 1:33.4 | entrepreneur? Well, there was never a moment for me or was like, oh, like, entrepreneur. I want to |
| 1:39.2 | like get that label. You know those people you email with in college that have like signatures |
| 1:43.2 | that are like 30 lines long with all the things that are president of. And you're like, oh my gosh, you probably don't do anything really well. I never like wanted to just like add to my signature. But what actually happened, I mean, I was 21, I'm 29 today. So I was 21 back in, I guess, call it, you know, 2008, 9, 10, 11 time frame. And I remember being a freshman, Robert, |
| 2:02.8 | looking around listening to my fifth year colleagues because they mixed you at Virginia Tech as part |
| 2:06.4 | of the program. And they weren't complaining that they couldn't get jobs. And I'm going, |
| 2:10.4 | there is no way I'm putting myself through five years of school at the number one ranked |
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