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Guest: Tyler Wagner
Tyler Wagner dropped out of the University of South Carolina at 19 with $50,000 to $80,000 in debt. Sixteen years later, his company Authors Unite has worked with more than 5,000 clients and sits at low eight figures. In this conversation with Henry Harrison, Wagner covers
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Guest: Michael Trkolta
One client grew to 60% of his revenue. When they left, Michael Trkolta laid off nearly 40% of his staff — and made a rule he has never broken since. The turning point in this conversation is a failure. WebOracle's largest client grew to 60% of company revenue, and when they left, Michael cut nearly 40% of his staff. He describes it as the worst day of his life. His wife reframed it as the best one.
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Guest: Hiten Sonpal
Hydraulics is a $750 billion market that hasn't seen a real breakthrough in actuation in decades. Hiten Sonpal is running the company trying to end it. Hiten Sonpal joined as CEO two years ago to solve a problem that was never scientific. The technology worked. The patents — more than twenty of them — were solid.
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One client grew to 60% of his revenue. When they left, Michael Trkolta laid off nearly 40% of his staff — and made a rule he has never broken since: no single client is ever allowed to exceed 10% of total revenue. In this conversation with Henry Harrison, Michael breaks down the operating decisions behind that — and why he believes agencies refusing to adopt AI are already losing their best people to the ones that did.
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Guests: Hiten Sonpal, Replacing Hydraulics
Hydraulics is a $750 billion market that hasn't seen a real actuation breakthrough in decades. Hiten Sonpal is running the company trying to end it. In this conversation with Henry Harrison, Hiten breaks down what it actually takes to move a deep-tech invention from a patent portfolio to a production line — and why the hardest part was never the science.
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Amy Ledgister spent ten years as a dental hygienist making $40 an hour. Within six months of discovering lash extensions, she was earning $400 an hour — and that leap became 3D Lash & Brow, a private beauty college in Dallas and Forney, Texas that has graduated thousands of women since 2018.
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Amy Ledgister spent ten years as a dental hygienist making $40 an hour. Within six months of discovering lash extensions, she was earning $400 an hour — and that leap became 3D Lash & Brow, a private beauty college in Dallas and Forney, Texas that has graduated thousands of women since 2018.
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In 1984, Edward DuCoin registered a trade name for $102 and started a company from his bedroom. Sixteen years later it was a NASDAQ-listed business with 1,000 employees and $20 million in revenue. Then a bookkeeping error escalated into a $692,000 IRS claim — later resolved at under $30,000 — that ripped his company and reputation apart and took a decade to overcome.
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Guest: Edward DuCoin
Edward DuCoin started a company from his bedroom in 1984 with $102 — the cost of a certificate of trade name. It grew to 1,000 employees, $20 million in revenue, and a NASDAQ listing. Then a bookkeeping error spiraled into a $692,000 IRS claim that was later resolved at under $30,000, but left his reputation in ruins and DuCoin, in his words, unemployable.
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Guest: Jeremiah Konger
Most financial advice focuses on accumulating wealth. Jeremiah Konger built his company around the harder problem: what happens when the paycheck stops. Jeremiah is the founder of Annuity Association, an independent annuity advisory firm with relationships across more than 80 carriers — a deliberate contrast to an industry where most advisors represent only two or three companies.
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