Adam faces a financial crisis when they run out of funds and are about to miss payroll. In a moment of desperation, he turns to a loan shark for help, managing to secure the loan, pay payroll, and repay the loan quickly.
Founded at the dawn of the dot-com era, entrepreneur Adam Miller’s original concept for Cornerstone was a kind of Netflix for adult education: training courses through CD-ROMs. Migrating to online offerings for major corporate clients, Adam steered the company through tough times that included an encounter with a loan shark, markets collapsing, and global crises. By the time he sold the company two decades later – for more than $5.2 billion – Adam learned essential lessons about how to scale during uncertainty.