
Andy Elliott
first employee.
Discovered Andy on YouTube when he had ~2,000 subscribers. Called him directly. Within a week of the conversation about what came next, I had moved across the country to Oklahoma at 18 to work with him.
First employee. ~1.5 years inside the room as he built a sales education company from scratch. Close-range view of what scaling from zero actually looks like, including the parts the highlight reel never shows.
Came out of the cycle an extraordinary salesperson and a better operator for having seen the foundation poured. Left when more wrongs than rights, what Robert Greene calls the Cuchillo Mastero pattern. The lessons stay, the idolization had to go. Speed of decision became operating procedure: when something clicks as wrong, the exit is fast.


