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I'm a millionaire with a 2.8 GPA through college. For me, I was fine trying hard at things I was good at and didn't spend much time on things that were hard. To
by everdev 9y ago
I'm a millionaire with a 2.8 GPA through college. For me, I was fine trying hard at things I was good at and didn't spend much time on things that were hard. To get a good GPA, you either have to be great at everything or willing to work hard at everything. To start a successful business, you need to work hard at the small amount of things you're good at. And a little luck along the way helps too. I've always thought it would be nice if school's worked similar to businesses in that you could get a far more concentrated education if you wanted. Or, your grades could be the average of your top 5 classes.
- dpkonofa 9y agoWhat do you do for a living? Did you come from a wealthy family or did you earn your millions? I think your point makes a lot of sense but I also think that "a little luck along the way helps" more than most people think.
- everdev 9y agoI ran a web agency, 2008-2014. Parents were middle class. I had a unique strength of being able to explain technical solutions in an easy way to CMOs/CEOs and give them ideas of what value the technology could provide that they hadn't thought of before. I also understood what would make my clients successful and how to design a tech project to align with those goals. Everything else I think I was pretty average at, but there seemed to be a lot of value in bridging the knowledge gap between C-level execs and programmers. I just kept doing that until the money wasn't fulfilling anymore.