Is college necessary for entrepreneurs hi my name is Beau Crabill and welcome
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podcast episode I want to talk about is college necessary for entrepreneurs not
saying is College necessary because let me just get the obvious away I know I'll
have some comments but beau you know you have to get a degree to be a teacher,
lawyer, doctor, which is a hundred percent true but to be an entrepreneur to be a
marketer to be in sales and run a business is it necessary I think I have
a very strong viewpoint on this and a very good valid viewpoint is I actually
went to college not in the aspect to pursue entrepreneurship I actually I got
a track scholarship to Pepperdine University on cross country track and
the only reason I went to college was to run in sports and athletics and cross
country and track I remember actually telling my coach that if I was not
running at school I would not go to school I was a decent kid in school but
I was making more money than my teachers by time I was a middle school and it
just didn't make any logical sense for me to, well Pepperdine especially to pay
seventy thousand dollars a year to get a job that's maybe making 80, 100
thousand dollars a year. Now you can go to Community College and people usually
pay around twenty thousand dollars a year to go there but I went to school
because I was on a track scholarship I was paying practically nothing for a
$70,000 year school in Southern California in Malibu California in
simply one of the nice places the planet and when I actually left school, the
reasons why I left was I got there and I realized that there is no way I
can do both run my business and actually run I did not realize how much time it
took to be a student-athlete if you've been an athlete you understand this if
you been a student-athlete you know it's just insane so I got there five days in
and I asked myself I can't give half effort into something I have to go if
I'm gonna do something it has to be with 100 percent effort and give all I have
so I had to give up one of them what would I regret more
not pursuing my business for the next four years or not pursuing my athletic
dreams and I love both of them so I was like you know what I can always
go on a run in the weekends I'm gonna quit the whole school and running thing
and just pursue my business. Ended up being a wonderful decision but when I made
that decision I had a lot of friends and family who said Beau you're making a
stupid stupid decision I remember my sister actually telling me this Beau do
you know how many people would die and just love and be their dream to go to a
school in Southern California practically paid for on a division 1
scholarship you know people would love to do that I'm like yeah I understand it
I mean it was my dream but it wasn't for me like again I was not gonna go to
school if it was not for that because I was doing very well and already
understood how to run a business and also the one person who actually
surprised me that gave me a lot of good support when I actually left school was
my brother and my brother is very I think amazing viewpoint in this so he
went to school and you know it's a really funny most people will say oh
you're gonna graduate in four years most people now actually graduate a lot
longer than that because the first two years of school and college are more just
like high school over again you're not learning specifically about your
degree you're not getting the specifics so my brother graduate in five years all
in debt tons of debt on him I don't know an exact number figure he initially
wanted to be like in sports science to be a kinesiologist or do some type of
sports related medicine then he wanted to be a Spanish teacher and then he wanted to
be an English teacher in a spanish-speaking country and then he
wanted to be a football coach and then he wanted to be in the Peace Corps and then he wanted
to go back to being a Spanish teacher and throughout college he was delivering
pizzas at Pizza Hut after he got done with college his first job was just
delivering more pizzas at Pizza Hut so he went to school for five years and
realized that he didn't need to go to school what he's doing right now
but then he ended up being a football coach for a little bit then he finally
got his like first real job he was working for a driver's ed school which
is really funny cuz my brother is just so advocate about bad drivers he's also
a really really good teacher so he was a driver's ed instructor working from
somebody who owned a drivers ed school and months and months
went by of him working at the school where he's teaching people how to drive and he
just hated his boss so so much that he just I remember him just getting on
the phone call and just ranting about the boss so much because he was just the
boss would show up to work just being a huge not a great person to all the
employees he'd be super rude to them my brother said yeah he then a month goes
by he would show up in new BMW and all these new cars and everything like that
and he won't even give anyone a raise my brother was just really advocate and did
not really like that at all so I was like okay Taylor why don't you just go
start up your own drivers Ed school like if you see its profitable you know what
people need you know how to go teach them why don't you just start up your
own driver's ed business that's what he did so then you figure out how can I go
raise money how can I go do this so he borrowed some money from family and
friends he had his own money saved up and he's like you know what I'm gonna do it
and his first time ever pursuing entrepreneurship and obviously my
brother knew what I've been doing in the past and my brother the reason why I'm bringing this up
is he was the first person that actually supported me said Beau
I went to school for five years I'm working at Pizza Hut right now and this is
when that happened he's like you're making a good decision you have
something working for you I think you're making a decision so now my
brother he ended up starting his own driver's ed school is doing very very
well so looking at my brother there was
college necessary for him, well let's think about it it took him five years of
school me leaving school me doing very very well and him working under someone
else that he hated for him to finally realize that for him to make it he must
pursue his own business he must do something himself so you know maybe if
he never went there right it didn't work out but looking at the whole
bigger picture in hindsight you know he really didn't need to do that the main
thing that took him off is he has a Spanish degree all this stuff he's
not using that today so with someone like that because most people I believe
in the same thing for my brother and all of my family and my friends as well
I believe that most people who go to school for university right I'm not talking
about Community College not talking about trade schools or vocational
schools not going to the military I believe most people are doing it
because we are sold we are marketed that this is the only route that we must do
to actually make it that to make in life to be in the real world we must get a
four-year degree Tesla, Apple, Google, Microsoft, pretty much the
biggest companies out there just came out that they are no longer accepting
you or they're no longer requiring it that you have to have a degree to get a
job there. The best companies the biggest in the world are not even
saying it's necessary now and this is going to lead to the next point about is it
necessary for entrepreneurs because I'm not saying is this necessary for a
doctor not necessary for a teacher a lawyer because a degree is college is but for
an entrepreneur I get really amused when I see that people are
going to school to learn about marketing learn about sales learn about business
learn about entrepreneurship because lets think about this the person that
is teaching you is not an entrepreneur they are not a marketer they're not a
salesperson they are none of that they're not a businessperson and you're
paying seventy thousand dollars a year or 40, 50, whatever your paying for school to
learn from somebody making $60,000 a year and your wanting to become a millionaire
doesn't really make a lot of sense, logically, if you want to become a millionaire you
want to become a business owner you want to become an entrepreneur it probably makes
sense to go learn from people who are doing that so to really answer this
question is it necessary to become an entrepreneur absolutely no and when
people say oh I'm gonna go to school to network you can go to so many events
about business and network with so many bigger high end entrepreneurs that youare
going to learn more in just one weekend then you learn in a entire four years
of school so my opinion my thoughts on this is it necessary for entrepreneurs
no, but you probably need something to spark you to understand that you must
pursue your own business become an investor become an
entrepreneur to do what you want to do so thank you so much for listening to
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