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Mike Schmidt

Mike Schmidt

Retired Marine and 100% service-disabled veteran; Managing Member of Semper Fi Labs/Syncly Direct, founder of Central Tox LLC, an SDVOSB clinical laboratory serving VA healthcare data.

Sep 8, 2026

8:15
And I'm curious, what have you encountered when trying to advance or modernize some of these systems? Are people open to it or is there some reluctance or some hesitation that you encounter?
8:26
Sure.
8:27
That's a great question.
8:28
I always say you're too big to fail.
8:29
So you see the corporate America, right? They're too big to fail.
8:32
Yeah.
8:32
For me, it's all me because I've spent a half a million dollars of my own money building the system.

21 MINS LATER

29:36
So I guess, are there any lessons that you've learned along this journey or throughout your time in government contracting in particular that you would like to hand on to somebody else who may be just getting into the business for the first time and maybe even transitioning out of their military service career and they're trying to figure out what they want to do next? What are some tips that you've got for those folks?

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