Broke, Arrogant and Stupid

I started my entrepreneurial journey in 2003 whilst in my final year at university with a little company called eFunctions. It basically failed within 6 months, an experience which was to repeat itself continually over the following 8 years as I lunged from failed startup to failed startup until the breakout success of iROKO [NollywoodLove on YouTube] in 2011. People always ask and respect me for continuing the journey until I ‘made it’. The truth was I continued wallowing in failure for 6 years straight because I was self-intoxicated with a heady mix of stupidity and arrogance.
ar·ro·gance
noun
offensive display of superiority or self-importance; overbearing pride.
People who haven’t met me think I’m somewhat arrogant. A little too cocksure. My writings make it seem very much like that. People [my wife included] think I am very easy to dislike. People always ask those who work with me ‘how they manage’, ‘he sounds like a total asshole’, ‘why oh why would you work with him’.
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