Episode 131 - a podcast by Carter Fisk & Mo Siddiqui

Andrew Zai had a successful career in engineering and has recently given it up to start a plumbing company. What is it like to start a business in a field you are unfamiliar with? What has been the hardest thing about starting? Andrew talks to Mo and Carter about his journey into entrepreneurship, why he decided to get a franchise and how jiu-jitsu benefits entrepreneurs.





• Why an engineer decided to start a plumbing business (01:03)

• Going down the franchise route (05:01)

• The challenges of starting a business (07:56)

• Does Andrew want the business to eventually run without him? (10:49)

• Dealing with Covid (13:06)

• Going in with no Plan B (15:34)

• Does Andrew prefer plumbing or engineering? (19:13)

• Andrews experience in martial arts and getting into jiu-jitsu (20:34)

• His first MMA fight (26:01)

• How martial arts has helped him with this new path in entrepreneurship (31:09)

• Andrews journey from want ting to be an entrepreneur to actually being one (33:31)

• How teaching jiu-jitsu has improved his jiu-jitsu (36:20)







Buy Then Build: How Acquisition Entrepreneurs Outsmart the Startup Game by Walker Deibel

https://www.amazon.com/Buy-Then-Build-Acquisition-Entrepreneurs/dp/1544501137/



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Borat

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John Mechado Bjj Academy

https://johnmachadobjj.com/

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