16 yrs old: Bullied at school.
17 yrs old: Started my 1st company.
18 yrs old: 2 surgeries, gave up my dream: be a professional soccer player.
19 yrs old: Quit my job and dropped out of university.
20 yrs old: Co-founded my 2nd company, a coworking space in Rotterdam with 230m2 office.
21 yrs old: Hired my first 5+ full-time employees.
22 yrs old: Record month of €225K revenue but 2 months later I had to lay off 8 employees in 1 day.
23 yrs old: Started making videos again after my 1st upload in 2012.
24 yrs old: Crossed €5M in revenue and hired 50+ people.
To everyone reading this…
Don’t forget to smile: happiness is wanting what you already have.
The first mountain you climb is for others. The second is for yourself.
To my younger self reading this…
The more you own, the more you’re owned.
You’ve spent your first 2 decades “adding”.
May you spend the rest subtracting young man.
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