REI110: Ecommerce Exit to Real Estate Investor w/ Connor Gross
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4.6 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2022
⏱️ 70 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to TIP. |
| 0:02.1 | And this guy will be like 70 years old. He's like, you know, came from the industry back in like the 70s. And he's like, he's like, absolutely not. Like, this is the way business is done for small businesses. And I was like, have you set up a Facebook page? And like, have you ever tried to go and run any kind of like digital ads? And like, in this week's episode, I talk with Connor Gross about entrepreneurship, how he started |
| 0:22.8 | and sold his first business while in college, what he's working on today, how he leveraged |
| 0:28.2 | his entrepreneurial success into real estate, all about self-storage, and much, much more. |
| 0:34.2 | Connor Gross is a successful entrepreneur in the real estate and e-commerce industries |
| 0:38.6 | and co-host of the Next Generation podcast. I've heard a lot about the e-commerce industry and some of the |
| 0:45.8 | success that people have had with it, but I haven't had the chance to really dive into it yet, |
| 0:50.8 | so I enjoyed finally getting the opportunity to learn about it from Connor in this episode. |
| 0:55.8 | I hope you guys enjoy it too. Let's dive right in. |
| 1:01.8 | You're listening to Real Estate Investing by the Investors Podcast Network, where your host, |
| 1:07.1 | Robert Leonard interviews successful investors from various real estate investing niches |
| 1:12.1 | to help educate you on your real estate investing journey. |
| 1:19.4 | Hey, everyone. Welcome to the Real Estate 101 podcast. As always, I'm your host, Robert Leonard. And with me today, I have Connor Gross. Connor, welcome to the show. |
| 1:32.8 | Thanks for having me all, man. |
| 1:34.6 | You started out on a relatively traditional path of studying engineering, I believe it was, at a university in Boston. But in college, things changed a bit and you started down a different |
| 1:44.5 | path. Before you started down the entrepreneurial path, did you plan on working a normal |
| 1:49.1 | nine to five career for most of your life? Or had you always had it in the back of your mind |
| 1:53.1 | that you eventually wanted to get into entrepreneurship? |
| 1:55.8 | So I did actually study entrepreneurship at college was kind of like the main major that I |
| 2:00.6 | went in with. And both of my parents are entrepreneurs. Like they've been either buying or starting businesses for over the past decade at this point. So it's always kind of like been a little bit apart of me. And I feel like I'll be honest, growing up with parents who run their own business, I think even if the business is small, which my parents run a small business, it's a huge competitive advantage just because you get to see like, oh, there are other options out there, whereas I know a bunch of my friends and even people in their 30s and 40s typically don't realize that that becomes an option until much later in their life. So I would definitely say I always knew I wanted to go into entrepreneurship and start my own thing. Now, I'll be honest, |
| 2:34.4 | like the way to go and approach it was always a little, like, unclear to me. And I feel like, even like after graduating college, despite having like an exiting college, like I got a job for nine months because for me, it was really important to like have cash flow. And like, that's what everyone else is doing. And it took a good nine months before I really figured out, like, you know, this job is awesome, but it's not for me. And ever since then, I've pretty much been all in drinking the Kool-Aid for entrepreneurship. What was your job after college? I worked at a Shopify app. It's called Murphy. Basically, the school I went to Northeast turned up in Boston, that we had this whole co-op program where it's like you get full six-month internships |
| 3:07.9 | where you can work for like any company you want. They give you like a whole database of companies everywhere from Google to Apple to Airbnb and whatever you want. But I always found it was best just too cold email a bunch of companies that I wanted to work for. And so like my sophomore year, I got a really sick job to this startup company called Drift at the time. They were basically just growing enterprise SaaS business. |
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