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I’m 44 years old and I’ve collected 44 cheat codes I wish I knew at 24.

I want you to have them so it doesn’t take you as long to figure out.

When I started my entrepreneurial journey at 17, I looked at people miles ahead of me and felt like I’d never be able to get there.

Even after I sold my first company and became a millionaire, I was comparing again.

Most people fall into this trap.

Thinking you should be further along.

Questioning why you haven’t done it yet if they did it.

But we often overlook the years of hard work, failures, and cheat codes they collected over their life.

The truth is…

Everyone you admire started at the beginning.

They’ve probably just been using a few of these cheat codes longer than you.

And I would have been here faster if I learned these when I was 24.

So stop comparing, grab the cheat codes, and embed them in your life.

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24 months ago I had one of the craziest periods of business.

Several things happened and I just freaked out.

Out of frustration, I decided to go on Slack and I wrote out a chat post.

Probably should have slept on it right?

Nope.

In that moment, I essentially told the whole company: “This is my vision, this is what we're doing, we're making it about the customers.

And if you're not on board, I will pay you $15,000 To quit immediately.”

I hit post. But here's the problem…

Some of the people we wanted on the team took my offer! Why?

Because they were just fed up with the drama. You see, I woke up one day, and I realized that I didn't enjoy going to work and I had a culture problem.

I didn't even want to go to meetings.

And I started figuring out there were some people on the team that shouldn't have been there.

Here’s the deal C players will cost you your A players.

This lasted for about six months.

And it put me into a tailspin.

I was sad and I'm not a sad person.

I was having anxiety problems.

I was a little depressed.

And I'm on vacation in Costa Rica with the family and I was on my phone pacing on the patio pacing up and down the pool area.

So after losing more than 30% of my team I finally called my business partner, Matt.

He and I own a venture capital firm called High Speed Ventures.

I asked him if he’d come over to SaaS Academy for the next six months and maybe help me fix this.

His response: “I was wondering how long you were going to wait before you asked me that.”

What I learned over the next four months is what I want to share with you today because it allowed us to build the company to almost $20+ million in the next 12 months.

And we built one of the highest culture NPS scores we've ever achieved.

These are the 3 things that changed everything for me.

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