Ex-Founder Michia Rohrssen: “I'm an adventurer!”

Please give a warm welcome to today's guest, Michia Rohrssen: a 3x founder, world champion in 3 martial arts, investor, and content creator with a mission to empower a million people to live lives brimming with freedom, wealth, and happiness. In this interview, Michia shares his secrets for crafting his dream post-exit lifestyle, practical investing, and living life with purpose and a happy marriage—all just 2 years after selling his tech business for $110 million at age 34. Michia has lived in New York City and Silicon Valley but now shares his time between London and Taipei.

• Michia Rohrssen: ''I'm an adventurer"
• Feeling shame and being at fault for being poor. Money as a motivator to start a business.
• Feeling unworthy as the motivator to become World Champion in Karate, Kung Fu and Tae Kwon Do.
• “The negative self-doubt pushing me and the vision for my life pulling me forward.”
• “My life today is everything I hoped in my 20s my life would look like”
• “The James Bond life style that I am living now”
• Tim Ferris as the role model for lifestyle.
• “I am SO proud of whom I’ve become”.
• Financial freedom and the “paradox of choice”.
• The pursuit of money beyond freedom is a wasteful pursuit.”
• How I prepared myself for What’s next before I sold the company.
• A year after the sale: “I am going to give myself permission to take time to figure this out.”
• I gave up a $4.9M earn-out to start my YouTube channel “to help other entrepreneurs to live the life I am living.”
• “Man, I wake up every day and I am super-fulfilled!”
• The “make money” online course space is uniquely crowded with fraudsters, who never actually made money in business.
• “I paid $770K in consulting, advising and mentorship fees.”
• When I ran a start up, I secretly felt everyone in the company was on a mental health journey with me.
• I only want to do things that collectively help my audience make more money
• One on one mentorship is not aligned with how I want to live my life. Unless I can do it scalably, as a platform
• Building another business is absolutely interest me!
• My dream is to give away a billion dollars!
• When I left I had about 200 people working for me
• Prodigy’s business model
• We had no passion for building software for car dealership and was honest with our employees about it
• The sale of Prodigy for “Life-changing money”. How going away and disconnecting helped me pivot the business and sold for much more
• 3 main lessons from building the business.
• Lessons from structuring my business sale. Manage your emotions during the sale process and Eliminate any performance based goals.
• Lessons I learn from my exit and advice to post-exit founders.
• Saying NO. Stick to your investment policy
• How I felt the moment I sold my business.
• “I started feeling the lack of purpose.” “Slowly fidgeting through life till death”.
• Give yourself permission to look for your purpose.
• Post-exit self-care for workaholics.
• My fulfilment formula
• How I design my dream life
• Math problems vs art problems
• My post-exit investing strategies
• How to live off a portfolio. Income vs capital
• I live on 3% of my net worth
• Angel investing
• How to deal with fear of losing money
• My geography: Taipei, Tokyo, London “I don’t want to optimize my life around taxes… As long as taxes are not impeding my lifestyle”
• The benefit of traveling
• I spend a third of my time on self-development: gym, reading, learning Mandarin and Japanese
• How we kept marriage happy though my exit. “She is super happy now”
• Why I never regretted selling Prodigy
• I am willing to pay the “price for admission” into the social circle I want to be in
• I am a massive introvert
• My identity: adventurer, a YouTuber, my values
• Overcoming insecurities
• I don’t love health for health’s sake.
• "My ice bath is one of the biggest life-changes"
• Religion filled up a giant hole in my life
• I hope there will be people whose lives I completely changed

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