E107 - The Value of Hustle - the Hustle President, Adam Ryan

Imagine being told by your boss on your very first day at work that you are literally going to be doing cold calls to clients in an isolated office all day despite having no experience.

What do you do?

Go into the corner and start to cry? Or, roll with the punches telling yourself that with each call you will get better?

Adam Ryan chose to do the latter when it came to his very first day at work.

Adam Ryan is a former 9th-grade government teacher originally from Columbia, Missouri, who had the opportunity via the Lance Armstrong Foundation to come to Austin, Texas which was supporting a non-profit charity he was working with. He was working for free before taking a leap into the world of media marketing and began working for Spiceworks, a B2B media platform mainly focusing on IT where he sold advertising. When working at Spiceworks began to lose its luster, Adam soon left to work with Under Armour where he worked to assist in making major acquisitions that involved familiar names such as MapMyFitness and Endomondo.

In taking the plunge, Adam would soon contribute to the major successes of The Hustle in addition to soon becoming the President of the company.