He was reading business books from the age of 16 thanks to his older brother. Still, Karl Helm wasn’t sure what he wanted to be in high school. He thought he’d be a lawyer and later started college. But since he wasn’t focused in college, he dropped out and joined the Navy.

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Fail fast. Fire fast. Quit fast. That’s Ryan’s approach towards learning. In school, his report card showed where his interests were. He did great in classes that really interested him but did REALLY bad in classes that didn’t. He went to college but had a hard time maintaining motivation to show up to classes.

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He grew up in the hood, never got good grades and was arrested in high school because of a fight. With the tears in his mom’s eyes etched in his memory and the fact that his crew didn’t show up to help him out, Vishal (Victor) Rampaderat decided to change for the better. 

And while we’re taught that good grades lead to success in life, his bank account and success in business tells a different story of how to get there.

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She was a law student with a 4.0 GPA when she decided to drop out of college. Ironic, since she was obviously an excellent student. Listen in as she tells Jonaed how her resume never made it pass the ATS system, how her love of learning made her successful anyway and how her experiences have curated an awesome resume that has nothing to do with a Master’s Degree.

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He was not one of the cool kids in high school. Interestingly, Buster Scher was thankful he wasn’t. He got his start at 15 when a video he posted went viral. He strategically built his company, HoopsNation, around that success and hasn’t looked back since. 

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He was an entrepreneur before he knew what the word even meant. Ryan got his start reselling basketball and football cards in elementary school. In high school he saved up $700 working at Subway and used it to start an LLC. By the end of his freshman year in college, he wanted to drop out. 

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Working at IBM proved to be more detrimental to his job prospecting than not having a degree. As mind-boggling as that sounds, that was exactly Scott Hutchings’ experience.

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Like many with Asian backgrounds, Kelvin pursued an engineering degree in college because it could lead to a lucrative career. But the sudden passing of his mom drove him down a path of introspection and self-discovery. And what he discovered was software engineering wasn’t for him.

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He worked five jobs simultaneously, bought his first house delivering pizza and bought a pizzeria with no money. If you think that’s impossible, well you’re in for a treat because that’s exactly what Nick Bogacz did.  

He had an entrepreneurial spirit before the age of 10 and fell in love with being a pizza delivery driver. Listen in as he tells Jonaed what happened when he tried to get “a real job” and how he turned his restaurant, Caliente’s Pizza and Draft House, into a franchise that generates over 9M in revenue.

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He was working from the age of 14 and knew he’d become an entrepreneur. To Riley Seaburg school just meant sitting all day steering at the clock and he was bored. He tried college but quickly realized that wasn’t his path. He knew that he had to learn the fundamentals of what he was interested in doing so he took individual classes at a community college.

Listen in as he recounts working at 14, at UPS, Statefarm and a few other places before diving into marketing.

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