Stories from the edge of entrepreneurship, adventure, and unmapped places
The real adventure begins when something goes wrong. A lot like entrepreneurship.
Living the Wahoo Way
Before Wahoo’s Fish Taco became a global brand, Wing Lam was handing out tacos to starving surfers in Costa Mesa parking lots.
The Ducati didn't make it
The city of Fort Collins mailed the ticket to my husband’s ex-wife, who does not live in Fort Collins, nor does she ride a Ducati. She was furious. To this day, none of us understands how that happened. But who cares? It was fantastic and she’s still pissed. I call that a win.
Entrepreneur, Seeker, Vagabond
For a stretch of time he lived in a converted Volkswagen bus parked on the beach in Tulum. Everything he owned fit inside the van and he smiles as he remembers it as one of the most liberating periods of his life. “It was the freedom of not having anything.”
The Good Pizza guy
“I went to investors,” he says. “No, no, no, no, no. Always no.”
At the time, he thought they were wrong.
“I said, what asshole, all these people,” he says, laughing.