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Maretus
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Navigating Risk vs. Reward How do you decide when a risk is worth taking? Have you ever taken a big risk that paid off—or one that didn’t go as planned? I have done both. At 19, I took over ownership of a small franchise pizza restaurant. It was a good opportunity but it didn’t go as planned. The restaurant didn’t make money and I struggled to make ends meet. Ultimately, I sold it for a very small profit, but nothing for the time and effort put in. Then, in 2013, I quit my safe job to start a risky digital marketing company. We grew quickly and in 2014, a large competitor made a generous offer to buy out the company. I took that offer and I began working for them. Today, I am much more careful about taking risks. I’m almost 40 and my time is more valuable to me now. I will still take risks but the rewards must be outsized for me to really do so. Let’s talk about the toughest risks you’ve taken in life, what you learned from them, and how you weigh risk vs. reward in your decisions today.
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Midnight Marauder Ⓜ️
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Hurt my back doing as a construction subcontractor, decided to get my real estate license in NYC. Worked in a cutthroat company for a year until I got hired by a boutique firm. It was pretty badass for 4 years. 5 Ave office with a killer view, doorman building all things I’d never experienced before in Brooklyn. Things got weird at the firm after my mentor at the firm was disappeared with her boyfriend. The culprit but never convicted was her landlord that wanted to intimidate them out of their rent controlled loft. Through the connections I made there was able to go back into construction at a much higher level. Ultimately 9-11 has different plans for me after that but that’s another story.
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Maretus
@maretus.eth
Wow dude - that story is full of twists and turns. So you lived in NYC on 9-11?
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Midnight Marauder Ⓜ️
@midnightmarauder.eth
Yep, watched the second plane hit from the roof of my workshop. Could smell burning flesh for a week at my apartment in Brooklyn. Had serious ptsd for a few years after tbh.
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Maretus
@maretus.eth
Jesus man. That’s fucked. I was only 14 when it happened and I didn’t even know what the World Trade Center was. World changing moment tho cause a few years later my friends were going off to Afghanistan and Iraq.
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