E10: Barrett O'Neill on how he passed up a banking Internship to build a 7-Figure Storage Company

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Barrett O'Neill is the Co-Founder of OnDemand Storage, a 7-figure storage company. He is also the Owner of BrightLine Media, a company that helps organizations rank higher in search engines. He also worked a year in corporate at Bain Capital. Barrett grew up wanting to be a professional Baseball player however an elbow injury derailed that dream. He started a storage company with his friend in college and has grown that to a 7 figure business. In the last year he has also grown his Twitter following to 60K followers, he tweets a ton of great advice on building companies & growing your online audience.

In this episode we discuss:

- How Barrett bounced back from a devastating sports injury to achieve his dreams in business

- What sets the GOAT athletes apart from the rest & dealing with extreme discomfort

- The smart approach to starting a successful business

- The importance of moving fast to get what you want

- The Winner effect

- Being bootstrapped vs raising VC funding