The Ringer: Bill Simmons

It's the single hardest thing I've ever had to do. I never really want to do it again. I think I blacked out a couple of times during it. You're making decisions. on every single conceivable thing and you're missing some stuff too. Like all right, health insurance, how do we do that? Office. How do we do that? Oh we need desks. How do we do that? Oh we gotta hire people.

Oh, this person turned us down. Oh my god, who's gonna be our accountant? You're just trying to survive. You're basically like Tom Hanks and Castaway. You've built your little raft and your goal is to just get over that first wave and you get out there. And then you're like, Holy shit. Now what? Welcome to How I Built This.

A show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements. built. Guy Raz and on the show today how a bitter falling out with ESPN led its star sports writer and broadcaster Bill Simmons to build his own two hundred and fifty million dollar media company. The ringer. Bill Simmons did not set out to become an entrepreneur.

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