

Blindsided and betrayed, I was left with an empty office and huge overhead. Finally, my entire team left in the night to compete against me. When I first became a manager, my passion often boiled over - to the point that I would explode with emotion.

The Oracles is an invitation-only brain trust of the world's leading entrepreneurs sharing their best success strategies. Read about Fous: How a Tinder Date Inspired This Wolf of San Diego to Trade His Maserati for a Scooter. I actually have a tattoo that says, “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” -Cameron Fous, founder of FOUS4Trading, and host of #TheProfile for IKNK. You can begin your path to greatness when you look for the lessons in failure. Now I travel the world and interview iconic people for my company,, which I’m so passionate about. Money should be the byproduct of your passion, not the other way around. If you aren’t passionate about your business, it will fail. I asked myself: “Am I passionate about running this company?” I realized I just cared about the money so I pulled the plug. Over a year into the project, I had to make a decision: Keep going and spend more money, or accept failure.
MILLIONAIRE MIDDLEMAN SOFTWARE
So why not build my own software program? Turns out that’s very hard and a ton of work. But some things were missing that I thought I could do better. Being a day trader for 14 years, I knew the industry intricately and used multiple software tools to gain an edge. I lost $150,000 on a failed software startup in 2017. Ines Ruiz, former Cambridge University professor with two masters degrees (e-learning and education) founder of Pocket Learning Spanish and Diary of an Entrepreneur Thanks to that failure I’m now the CEO of several businesses, including a Spanish-learning gamification app nominated as Startup of the Year. That led me to working at Cambridge University and ultimately immigrating to t he U.S. An internship as a Spanish teacher in the U.K. That accent mark majorly changed my life. They weren’t able to accept anyone who didn’t pay attention to detail. The day after I returned it, they canceled my internship because I forgot to use one Spanish accent mark. At the last minute, they sent me a final piece of paperwork. I needed an internship to graduate, and communicated with my employer for a year before it was time to start. When I was 23, I was finishing my degrees in Translation.
