Fail To Learn: Teaching Stories From Business, Sales, Marketing, Coaching, Blogging, Freelance, & Entrepreneurs.

In this show I have the fortune to interview Steli Efti from Close.io. Steli's start is a stunning story. He came to the United States in search of the American dream. He sold everything he had in Germany and moved to Silicon Valley. And then he found a few challenges, to put it lightly. When he arrived he didn't know anyone here. He didn't know the area. He didn't know English very well. He didn't even carry a proper visa. And that's just the start. We talk about those struggles, the failure of his first business, and what he's learned along the way to build his amazing company, Close.io. What Steli shares in this episode: Steli's philosophy on building a business How charisma was his crutch early in his career, and the problems that caused. How he's been a serial entrepreneur since he was 18 years old. How he came about his vision for a tech company. Why he said he was ignorant, not gutsy, for moving to Silicon Valley. How he expected to be an amazing success story in only two years, and how that fell thro