Since we started Mindvalley, we’ve blossomed into an award-winning company with over 100 employees and revenues past $15 million a year (50 million in Malaysian Ringgit). We’ve become one of the biggest sellers of educational content online (mostly in meditation and personal growth but we’re expanding fast into other fields). We just hit 1.3 million subscribers and our 200,000th paying student.

But best of all, we’ve done it all without ever having to take any funds or loans. Which means I currently still own 100% of my business.

It did not happen fast. Mindvalley took nine years to build. Some years were fun. Some years were pure brutal.

I started with $2,000, lost money in the first two months, became profitable in the third month and just kept reinvesting profits into the company.

But the upside is total 100% ownership and a company that is built around my lifestyle, which means that it never ever feels like “work”.
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