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For the past eight years I've had this story of myself. A story I've repeated so many times that I forgot it was even a story.

It has just become my inevitable truth and the story goes as follows.

I am not a talented entrepreneur.

I made one good decision bringing on my co-founder Austin

but other than that my entire entrepreneurial

journey has been luck. My lack of focus, lack of discipline, my excitability, and

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