207: Taking Risks for a Fulfilling Life w/ Alan Ying
The Lavendaire Lifestyle
You Got That Big Investment Money After the Dot Com Crash?
I was working at my surgery residency. It was 110 hours a week. And then I was working whatever number of hours on this at night. So that was a year and a half. We got our first customer and then we were able to raise money. Then we raised $4 million, which was a lot of money then. But it was a huge risk by these people because I still didn't really have any business experience. They saw that I had sacrificed. A kid drop out of the number one heart surgery program in the world for this thing that they believed in. That's what made me think, wow, they really believe in this.
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