Who's talking
I'm not a guru. I'm a guy who figured some things out.
I'm Allan. Lawyer by training. Operator by choice.
I grew up in a 1,200 square foot house with eight people in it. I slept on the floor next to my brother for the first eight years of my life. My dad used to say he didn't have two nickels to rub together, and he meant it.
My first business was pest control, back in 2007. It failed. Then I was too scared to try again for seven years.
That's what fear of risk cost me. Seven years.
In 2014 I started Proof Pest Control in Detroit. The most boring, recurring, predictable business I could think of. It worked, and it's still working.
The entire time I was building it, I drove a beat-up 2010 Nissan Altima.
I teach from scars, not theory.
I'll tell you the ugly parts too. Right now, about 76% of my net worth is locked up in privately held businesses. That's not good.
That's a mistake I'm still unwinding, and I'll say it out loud, because nobody says that part out loud.
I don't need to do this. The companies pay me and the investments pay me. I'm fine.
I do it because nobody handed me the code, and now I'm pulling other owners up with me. That's it.
