When Brad Elliott Founded Equity Bank in 2001, he did it with one bank purchase, 25 investors and 19 employees.

"18, I fired somebody on the first day," Brad corrects me.

Taking a company public is, at its core, selling ownership of the business to a new group of investors. Most of us have heard the phrase "going public," but few of us understand how demanding the process actually is.

Brad Elliott and Greg Kossover walk through the thinking that led them to take Equity Bank public in 2015, and then the work required to get there. Their account—both the financial mechanics and the emotional weight of the decision—gives a clearer picture of what it really feels like to GO PUBLIC.

He wanted to learn more languages, so he decided to teach himself how to code so that he could invent an app.

The app is Chatterbox.

He wanted the learning to be fun so he embedded game in his app.

He wanted it to be successful and available so he gave it to the world for free.

When he built Chatterbox, he built it for the user.

He built it for himself.

Seven years later, Grant has decided to focus all of his attention on Chatterbox.

Everything he has done has been intentional

His intention is to make it more fun more accessible and easier for the whole world to learn so that they can communicate no matter the language.

He never stops innovating.

"Cheap is not just money... you can't get the time back." -Jon Bachura

Jon Bachura studies entrepreneurship so I think that makes him the Mad Scientist of Entrepreneurology.

HIs passion to learn fro Entrepreneurs and share what he has learned will benefit those seeking to improve outcomes in their lives and in the lives of others.

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