Brian Lee: Entrepreneurs Don’t Wait Take a Risk, Work Hard, and Don't Be Afraid | E44

How can I help you ? I'll be like , well , my name is Brian Lee and I have a business idea . I'd like to run by you .

Brian Lee: Entrepreneurs Don’t Wait Take a Risk, Work Hard, and Don't Be Afraid | E44

And he said , you know , if you think the grass is greener on the other side , maybe you should pay more attention to your own garden . My guest today is my great friend , Brian Lee . Brian is a rock star , serial entrepreneur and an incredibly successful venture capitalist .

Brian Lee: Entrepreneurs Don’t Wait Take a Risk, Work Hard, and Don't Be Afraid | E44

My guest today is my great friend , Brian Lee . Brian is a rock star , serial entrepreneur and an incredibly successful venture capitalist . He is the co founder and CEO of Legalzoom , which had $575 million in revenue last year and has a market value of $1.75 billion .

Brian Lee: Entrepreneurs Don’t Wait Take a Risk, Work Hard, and Don't Be Afraid | E44

And so um they took kind of menial jobs if you will , right . So my dad uh had two jobs , one was working at a furniture factory making booth furniture for restaurants like those , you know , like the booth furniture . Um And then , uh and then in the evenings he would work in the orange fields and pick oranges with the day laborers .

Brian Lee: Entrepreneurs Don’t Wait Take a Risk, Work Hard, and Don't Be Afraid | E44

But that's when I kind of took it to another level . At some point , your dad worked his way up and started his own company , entrepreneur . You have the gene , tell us , tell us about what it was like .