What's up guys? My name is Robert Wensley, CEO of Investcliffe. This time last year I had negative

$5,000 in my bank account. I was thinking about becoming an Uber driver just to pay my bills.

In the last 12 months, I built a multi-million dollar real estate software company, and I am one of

the passionate few.

Hey guys, welcome to this episode of The Passionate View.

It's your host, Omar here.

And today we are on location, Waterfront here in Dubai, with none other than my good friend,

none other than the CEO of Investor Lift, Robert Wensley, to hear his incredible story about how in 12 months he turned his life and business around. So thanks so much for being on the show today, Robert. Let's crush it. Absolutely. It's break the internet. I hope I can add some value and share some crazy and sane stories. Yeah, man. It's going to be awesome because you built this multi-million dollar company really fast. Really fast. And you got an awesome team. I've met your whole team. We're out here in Dubai. You've also recently become a client who were helping with content. So we came out here with this beautiful setup. But today, I kind of want to dig into your story a little bit. And can you give the audience a little bit of context as to how you got into entrepreneurship? I know you actually graduated from Harvard too. Don't hold it against me though. So I know I got this incredible resume, but talk to me, before we talk about this epic Dubai trip where we spent, what, almost 200 grand. Like two weeks. Like an epic with Ferraris and Lamborghinis and helicopters and all sorts of stuff. But talk to me, where did entrepreneurship begin for you as a kid and sort of how did the

ball start getting rolling for you in business early on? Yeah. So when I was growing up, my dad made pretty decent money. He was an executive for oil business. But he always pretended that we were like the poorest people out there. Like I remember he gave me like 25 cents once. I know if they do this in the U.S., but in Canada when you have a grocery cart, if you don't return your grocery cart, like when you return it, you put it back in and give you 25 cents back. And you gave me 25 cents once, and that was like about the extent of all the money I got growing up. So if I wanted to have nice things, I need to find ways to make money. I remember like

when I was in the fifth grade, the teachers association or the parents association in the

school, they banned all the vending machines in the school. And I was thinking, hmm, there's

an opportunity here. I went to a store, started buying bulk chocolate bars, candy bars, pop chips, bubble gum,

and selling it out of my locker.

Eventually my locker got so full.

I ended up leasing someone else's locker out, like multiple lockers, just stacked with pop chips.

So I was always doing these kind of like side hustles, had a clothing business, photography

business, was always kind of doing these kind of side hustles.

But, you know, after I graduated, I wanted to do something that was actually going to be

really big and wasn't just a hustle.

I wasn't just like, you know, having to grind every day.

And I saw the people in my life that were successful that I ever done that. And all of those guys did it in software. So I decided, hey, software is the route that I want to go. And so if your vision was like, all right, I had a little bit of success in business, but you want to do a bigger play and then you thought software was the vehicle for like the big, big play, the $100 million player, whatever the number is for you.

Okay.

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