- Profitability though is so important
because especially as an entrepreneur.
We fool ourselves in talking about,
I live a life in a job that
most people dream of, right?
They think in the respect
that I live my job
is he does what he loves, right?
Dave does what he loves,
he's so lucky.
He works, he gets to go with athletes
and Super Bowls and just
watch my Instagram, right?
I live, I live in the life of Riley,
and I was with Rob Angel,
the founder of Pictionary
and the founder of Make-A-Wish
and, you know, we all live these lives
of extraordinary abundance.
But let me tell you where it started.
It started with profit.
It started with sacrifice.
It started with discipline,
strategy, and awareness.
It started with faith,
and it started with a whole
bunch of roller coaster things
that happen in everybody's lives.
And although it took 30
years for me to get here and
somebody else 21 years and
somebody else 47 years,
it seems like it happened overnight.
And that we must have
just followed our passion.
No, I sold out, out of
law school, for profit.
Because my philosophy
was, if I can make money,
I would find a purpose
in making that money
and apply my passion to it.
So when I was CEO of the
first handheld smartphone,
it was one of the best
sports jobs in the world.
And people are like, what
are you talking about?
I go, what a great job.
I sponsored the world cup.
I got a suite there.
It was much better than
being a sports agent.
I had full access.
Everybody was kissing my butt.
Why? cause I was paying everybody.
I was paying the athletes
that come and do signings
and you know, paying
for beautiful dinners.
But I was a CEO of a company.
But I applied my purpose,
and I applied my passion.
Right I had charitable
aspect to everything I did
and my passion was sports.
So, when I was spending
my advertising dollars,
with the first Windows
phone and Samsung phone,
I was applying them to sports.
So I could have what I like to do.
But it had nothing to do with,
you know, I love sports so, you know,
I'm going to create this sports app
that never is going to make a penny,
but that's going to
give me purpose in life
because I have a sports asset,
app that will find you coaches
anywhere in the country,
because I like to coach kids.
That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
Like give me a profitable model, right?
With the purpose of helping kids.
That's cool.
And then apply your
passion to sports and say,
Hey, this man, you know, like Tinder,
we can match people that
need high end coaches
the same way we can kids
who want to have dates.
