Starter Story - 113% vs. 13,000%

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Hey it’s Pat,

I want to get your opinion on something.

Let's say I gave you these two options:

Option 1: Increase your salary 113% in 5 years
Option 2: Increase your salary 13,000% in 7 years

Which one would you take?

I'm willing to bet you chose Option 2 (why wouldn't you).

But... 99% of people actually choose Option 1.

Let me explain.

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So, my very first salary out of college was $54K.

And each year after, it slowly increased as I got promotions or switched jobs:

Year 2: $60K
Year 3: $80K
Year 4: $105K
Year 5: $115K

From year 1 to 5, it had grown 113%.

Not bad, right?

But here’s the truth: I was miserable.

I didn’t have any control over my life.

I sat on Slack from 9am to 6pm. I didn't give a sh*t about my projects.

I was building someone else’s company.

From the outside it looked like I had a dream job life.

But on the inside, I was slowly dying.

I prayed for Fridays so I could start my “real” life.

This is how 99% of people live.

They spend 40 years working at companies that don’t give a sh*t about them.

Companies that would lay them off in an instant if it improved their bottom line.

And all the while living for the weekend.

I knew it didn’t have to be like this.

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I started building Starter Story in 2017.

• I built it in the mornings before work.

• Late into the night after work.

• And on every weekend I possibly could.

It wasn’t long before I was making a little bit of extra money every month.

But many of my friends laughed at me:

WTF are you doing?
You have a stable job… focus on that!
That’s a cute idea… I hope it works…

In my first full year I made just… $12,000.

I came home for Christmas and my family shook their heads at me.

What they saw as a silly side quest... I saw as my ticket out!

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So I kept building.

I had a feeling I was onto something.

I wasn't even making six figures, but I was building MY DREAM.

Then I started cranking:

Year 2: $67K
Year 3: $186K
Year 4: $497K
Year 5: $752K
Year 6: $1.8M

This year… we’re on track to do even more.

The result: I’ve grown 13,000% since I launched Starter Story.

Now all those friends say:

"You are a genius"
"I knew it all along"
"Can I pitch you my idea?"

Funny how that works...

––

Here’s the thing only founders understand:

Salaries grow 5-10% every year.

But businesses have no ceiling for growth.

Most people are happy with a 5-10% bump in salary every few years.

That becomes the normal, the standard.

Meanwhile, a business can grow 2x or 3x or 10x (especially in the early years)

And if you keep testing and iterating, there’s very little in the way of growing 100x over several years.

––

I’m going to give you those two options again:

Option 1: Choose the 113% salary mindset.
Option 2: Choose 13,000% founder mindset - and join Starter Story to surround yourself with thousands of others doing the same thing.

Most people say they want option 2.

But 99% of people choose option 1.

I'm running a workshop on Monday where I'll walk through Option 2 a bit more.

And how I built a $1M on two hours a day - while I had a full time job:

Click HERE to save your seat.

– Pat

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