He's invested $3.1 million across 17 companies.

Today, our interviews with Tyler Tringis of Ernest Capital.

But before all that investing, it all started in 2008 after he graduated college and got involved in the renewable energy sector.

That led him to eventually launch his own company, which he wanted to go raise venture capital for.

He pitched over 400 venture capitalists,

and ultimately after trying to build that company, it failed.

It just couldn't get traction.

So he shut it down.

But in the process, followed his wife to San Francisco.

And when she got a State Department job in Buenos Aires,

they took that flight down there,

and Tyler built the original MVP for his new company

called Stormapper on that flight.

The company where the first 12 months went from nothing to $2,000 a month in revenue.

He ultimately scaled this business, getting customers off Upwork, doing Shopify contracts,

and grew up to $16,000 a month in revenue in 2016,

before making the thing highly profitable.

In fact, Tyler was taking over quarter million

dollars out of the company as salary before he sold to Shore Swift Capital in 2017. The company

was doing way more than 18K and MR at that point. After the sale of Sure Swift, he said,

you know what, I want to build a better way. More options for founders. And that's when he put

pen to paper for earnest capital in 2018.

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