Robert Stephens is interviewed at the Wall Street Journal online.
He’s wildly successful now. You can see his company’s vans parked outside 1000 Best Buy stores when they’re not on the road servicing customers.
But he wasn’t always successful to say the least. He started the company with a couple of hundred dollars and got “acquired” for $3 million.
When asked his advice about “how he made it”, this was the college drop out’s answer:
Starve yourself. Don’t take the money. Do it yourself.
I recommend a diet of ramen noodles and very little sleep.
If you don’t love your business, someone else will love it more than you, and do it better and be more creative.
I have an irrational love of technology. I don’t care how much I get paid.
–Robert Stephens, Founder, GeekSquad
I guess the question I asked myself was this…”What do I have an ‘irrational desire’ to do?”
It’s one thing to want to make money… do we have an ‘irrational desire’ to perform a service? Or pursue a goal? That’s quite a difference…
This is an amazing story read it all!
HT:BI
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