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Welcome back to another episode of Invest in Yourself, the Digital Entrepreneur Podcast, the show where we're helping you turn yourself from, you know, a corporate shoehawk to a, you know, maybe an entrepreneurial gold like our guest today. I'm of course the podcast mobile Phil Better. But you know what, let's talk about my guest today. I've already had the opportunity to talk to him on one of my other podcasts, but this guy is amazing. Great energy. He's helping people. In two decades, he was in for two decades, he was in the corporate world working for GE Co and Direct Supply. But he didn't like that.

He had this motivation to make the leap into entrepreneurial, so he engineered it. He drawed on his background in business, investing and system thinking. He took spreadsheets that helped him generate 15 plus returns on the stock market and turned into a full fledged platform, a tech platform that now helps over 12,000 customers and probably growing since I've read wrote this out and in 50 countries grow their wealth. So this is a conversation about stepping off the treadmill and trusting your skill set and building something that empowers you to create financial freedom for yourself and others. So if you ever thought there's gotta be a better way and there's more to this, you're absolutely right. Because our guest today is going to show us what more can be and what it looks like. So get ready to learn from the founder and CEO of Ticker, Sean Tepper. Sean, thank you so much for being back here.

It's great to talk with you again, Phil.

Good to be back. Thank you.

All right, so we're going to jump straight into it. I gave you a glowing review. You. You jumped from corporate to financial freedom through both investing and, of course, launching your own business. But why? What made you decide to kill the corporate and come into the world of entrepreneurship?

I. I always wanted to be an entrepreneur. I'll. I'll kind of. I know I hit on the backstory on your Other podcast, I'll, I'll, I'll give you it again but give you a little more detail. I won't spend too long, but I had a few failures on the journey of trying other businesses. So ticker is actually not my first swing of the bat, you could say so. Between 2006 and 2010 I built my first company that was an agency and learned that it wasn't really a scalable business.

This was actually very hard business to even grow during the recession at the time. But in 2010 we started grow little quicker, brought on some bigger names and a bigger agency approached me and said hey Sean, we would like you to merge with us. And I, at that point I was looking for an exit, a way to get rid of this thing because I just, I didn't love the agency model. I wasn't passionate about the services of providing, you know, website deny, website design, software engineering, a little bit of video services. I'm like I want to do something that's tech. Like I was looking at Salesforce and mailchimp and even Netflix had just a few years before converted to the whole digital space and got away from the whole mail DVDs. I'm like that's a brilliant business model. I want something scalable.

So didn't have any great ideas. 201011 is when I kind of made the transition to corporate contracting and that's. I soon after started working for GE and worked for. Gosh, I plan to do that. Get this two years that turned into 12 plus years. You know how that works, it always takes longer.

I'm only here until I get the base and then I'm off.