Origin Stories

Why I Became An Entrepreneur

It was 2011 and I was cratering.

Nick Wolny
Entrepreneurship Handbook
12 min readDec 29, 2021

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Some people come out of the womb aspiring to be entrepreneurs. Not me.

My dad was a carpenter who specialized in wood floors. He was a one-man show; he hauled a 100-pound drum sander to and from every job and spent his days laying down sheets of parquet or refinishing staircases amidst…

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