Skinner Layne: What it's like to hit upon an idea that resonates with every part of you

Entrepreneurs on Fire

John Lee Dumas

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🗓️ 30 May 2014

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Skinner has founded both successful and failed start-ups. He has also raised more than $10 million in early-stage financing, in addition to acting as a private equity advisor, to multiple energy projects in excess of $100 million and has established formal relationships with global energy funds.

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0:51.0	I am simply thrilled to introduce my guest today.
0:54.0	Skinner Lane. Skinner. Are you prepared to ignite?
0:59.0	I sure am. Yes. Skinner has founded Bulless Successful and Failed Startups and has raised more than ten million in early stage financing
1:08.0	in addition to acting as a private equity advisor to multiple energy projects in excess of a hundred million dollars.
1:16.0	Give it our listeners just a little overview scanner. So take a minute.
1:20.0	Tell us about you personally because we want to get to know you then give us an overview of your business.
1:26.0	Thanks John. Well, I'm actually from a little town in northwest Arkansas and I grew up on a blueberry farm.
1:35.0	So it may sound like a strange place for an entrepreneurial journey to begin but I actually found that farm life and the environment that I was raised in was very entrepreneurial.
1:46.0	And so it really wasn't I didn't have to break through a lot of the cultural barriers I guess or attitudes barriers to being independent because it was really based into the DNA of middle American farm life.
2:03.0	I decided to abandon my plans to go to law school after I finished college and got got into the technology world when I was when I was 22.
2:17.0	And that journey has been a winding road that eventually brought me to Chile where I've been for the last almost six years and to exosphere which is what I'm doing now and what I hope I will be doing for many years to come.
2:34.0	Well, Skinner, I commend you for avoiding law school. I myself got sucked in for one semester before I was able to tear myself away much to do.
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