They Called Me the “Ugly High School Graduate” in Front of Everyone — and My Family Expected Me to Smile and Accept It

and started measuring myself against the standard I was building, and the difference between those two systems of measurement was the difference between a cage and a compass.

I founded Altus Consultants when I was twenty-six, in a rented office the size of a closet, with a laptop, a phone, and the stubborn conviction that I understood corporate finance continue reading …