That’s awesome that you’ve grown that much. That’s impressive. 14 years. What inspired you to start your own thing? So you’re doing, you’re working for a different firm. You’re, you’re working for a firm. You’re, you’re doing well. What was the initial spark that said, you know what? I want to, I want to make my own firm and make the jump.
Boy, you know, the really it was, you know, sorry, there’s a lawyer who has said that he can tell whether you’re going to succeed and, you know, be a successful attorney. If when you were, you know, a kid or a teenager, you had a newspaper out or something like that, because you’re kind of an entrepreneur, you know, and, and when this attorney interviews people, he asks, what did you do as a kid?
I wasn’t a newspaper wrote. I wasn’t a newspaper boy. I was, I raised hamsters. That’s kind of weird to say, but I bred hamsters and sold them for five bucks a baby hamster so I actually made money off of my breeding business. So, I think I always said that kind of thought process, you know, that spark, I guess you’ll say, or whatever I was always looking to how can I get better, you know, competitive in that degree there in that regard.
So. When I worked at this other firm, I, started, my own website. I, went to my classmates, went to others selling my service as, in essence, and I looked at it as my own practice within their practice. And how would I sell Jon Groth to colleagues who didn’t do personal injury? I would sell my expertise to others.
They would hire the firm, but they would get to the firm through me, you know? And with that, then the argument was, I was a rainmaker, you know, that’s what we the movie and the book and all that, you know being a rainmaker and the law is important. So I was a rainmaker, bringing in business and then finally it’s like well, okay I can see the history of what I’ve brought in over the past few years and I know what I’m getting paid.
So I just run the numbers. It’s like well, a plus b should equal c but it equals c, you know minus or yeah c minus a X number of dollars, so it should be that it’s not, and I approached my, boss at the time and said, we need to talk about, you know, the numbers and, I was,I guess, I was at ease because it just didn’t make any sense.
You know, it was kind of an easy decision. And luckily my wife had faith in me and we jumped ship and, the rest is history. So what, what made me think about it to answer your question in a shorter fashion is I always said that entrepreneurial kind of spirit, you know, a little bit and just running the numbers, look at, you know, have a business plan, run the numbers, look at, advisors, talk to people you trust and a good accountant and understand that you can do it.
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