Episode 09 - What Nobody Tells You About the CEO Job | Sahil Patel

Now, yes.

Okay.

Some success at ER Express.

What did I bring forward? I mean, I think the first thing is let's cast this, is that one thing I learned is A moderate amount of success is oftentimes the enemy of more success.

Sure.

Because you just don't know if you got lucky or you got good.

And something that you get this early win and you go, oh, it must be because I'm good.

Now it is.

You probably got lucky.

Now, I ran CRS for so long.

I was there for 10.

I ran it for nine years.

And then the 10th year was under the new ownership.

Yep.

So I was there, I was there for quite a while, long enough to be able to kind of get a little bit of better recognition on like when were we lucky and when we were good and when we were a little bit of both.

Here's what I would say.

I think I'm going to come back to a point you said earlier that maybe some people in your audience, they, if you, if you look at my on paper track record or you go on my LinkedIn on the surface, it just looks like, Hey, this guy's, you know, hat, you know, let's just say done well.

Um, no, no kind of big rocket ship home runs.

You know, I was, I wasn't like early at some of these legendary companies, but, um, now in a couple of places, I was just, let's be clear along for the ride.

You know, I worked at MetAssets for five years, went public.

I was a P on there.

I was in the right place at the right time, the right stage in my career, post-grad school.

So I got to, you know, have a little bit of leadership, but I was, that was just being in the right place at the right time.

I wouldn't take any credit for that.

I would say ER Express, like while it is, I think of it as like at the time, like for those seniors, it was like my third kid.