Venturing Boldly, with Priit Martin (Sales, Estonia, Entrepreneurship, Careers)
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It is easy to not understand what makes you successful at something. People tend to think that what makes you successful is the fancy stuff. It's this my special joke or my special clothes I have. It's the way that I always leave office at 3.30, whatever it is. And it is my job to remind them that on average, what makes you good is doing the basics. People run into this trouble that they don't like being uncomfortable. There's this feeling that it must be the wrong thing I'm doing. But it's not most of the times it can be the right thing. Just need to go through the uncomfortable part, right?
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Welcome, Action Catalyst listeners. Today, we have Preet Martin. Preet now serves as the president of Southwestern Ventures, formerly E1 Ventures, founded as part of the Southwestern family of companies to create career and entrepreneurial opportunities for young people across Europe. Preet, welcome to the show.
Hello, Adam. Your equipment is way fancier than mine. I really haven't done any podcast recordings like this before. I'm open to anything. We can just talk and see what comes out of it.
We want at least a couple of embarrassing stories from your youth.
Yeah, I've had a very vanilla life. I hope I have something interesting to share.
Yeah, perfect. So give me a little bit of your story. How did you find the role and position that you're in today with Southwestern Ventures?
The journey, as it often is, was a little unexpected. So if you go way back to the early 90s in elementary school, never even once did I consider that I would end up in the field of sales or leadership or anything like that. So if you imagine that 50 pound geeky boy with, you know, the pot cut hair with a little ponytail. And every time I had to like read a poem in front of the classroom or something, sometimes I got nosebleeds because I was so scared and afraid of talking in public. My face would always, always turn red. So yeah, like sales, not for me. But, you know, as I got older, I got a little bit more confidence. I was at least able to speak to people, right? But when I was in college, my older brother,
kind of by accident went to sell books in USA. So once I had done it for a couple of years, I figured that, hey, if you can do it, I should probably do it as well. I always had this feeling that, you know, I was a good kid. My grandmother said that you're a nice boy. I got good grades in school and so on. But I never really had the feeling that I had tested myself. And as the years went by, it started to bother me more and more. So I saw this chance to go to the States. and sell educational books door to door, kind of as a test to see if I really was who I thought I was. And I was still scared. I actually was supposed to go the first year I got into college, but I didn't. I had many excuses of all the great things I would be doing back in my home country in Estonia. And what I ended up doing is I ended up playing a lot of games, computer games over the summer. I actually made money like that. So it was the first serious money I made in my life playing computer games. So I figured I would do it next year.
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