On this episode of the playbook I have my first mentee Dan Fleischman the youngest founder of a publicly traded company and of course the founder of elevator studios.

Dan and I are going to discuss the number one lesson in running a successful business.

Join me for all of that's and more on The Playbook.

This is Entrepreneurs The Playbook, where each week I bring you some of the greatest athletes,

celebrities, and entrepreneurs

to talk about their personal and professional

playbook to success and what made them champions on the field and in the board

room. I'm your host David Melzer. Dave Melzer with entrepreneur of the

playbook and I have one of my first mentees, now he's my mentor, Dan Fleischman.

Pleasure to me here.

Super entrepreneur.

He has his own elevator pitch night.

He has multiple businesses.

Most people, though, don't know. you're the youngest guy that I know

to take a company public how old were you 23 years old 23 and is it true that you

spent your college funds on starting a company?

Yeah, I'd worked three jobs, saved up $43,000 to go to SDSU.

And then, you know, for three or four weeks into starting my company,

I'd spent most of it on my clothing

brand building a booth at the convention and doing all the stuff and buying

samples and yeah so you took who's your daddy public and we took a public where 23.

We did 9 1⁄2 million sales about the time we were 19.

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