Grant Aldrich founded OnlineDegree.com with a purpose-driven mission: make college more accessible and affordable for everyone. After graduating college with an overwhelming amount of debt, he was determined to change how students embark on their college education. Grant has spent his entire career working in startups with nearly 15 years of experience and 2 prior exits to a publicly traded company. He has been a board member and donor to a number of non-profits, an advisor to many publicly traded companies and a guest speaker at seminars and graduate school courses. He graduated with honors from University of California Irvine in Economics.
Episode Highlights:
- Grant explains how he was always intellectually curious
- Learn the story behind his first startup
- Travis and Grant have a conversation about networking and making friends being the same thing.
3 Key Points:
- Every person you know has the potential to be a long term business partner.
- Make good friends with everyone.
- Grant has been proven wrong every time I’ve thought it’s what you know
Resources Mentioned:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/grant-aldrich
- Visit Travis’ website at travischappell.com
- Join the Build Your Network Facebook group travischappell.com/group
- OnlineDegree.com
