“But then we start with baby steps and work up to that. “If people knew how much thought and intention went into everything behind the Bucket List Family-it’s just like any other venture startup I’ve done where there’s goals, hopes, and overall vision,” Garrett said. The family compiled a bucket list, sold everything they owned, created an Instagram account and a YouTube channel, and soon enough, Garrett’s next venture had started to become a reality. So we made one up and called it ‘adventure travel journalist.’” “We talked about where we wanted to spend our time and asked ourselves, ‘What’s a career where I can spend more time with my wife and children, more time doing my passions like travel and photography, and more time working on my health? From existing careers I couldn’t really pinpoint it. “When I left Snapchat my wife and I had a conversation about what’s next,” Garrett said. Eventually the team sold Scan to Snapchat for $54 million. Overtime, Garrett realized that climbing up the corporate ladder and being a businessman wasn’t what he wanted for himself or his family. (He’s so much smarter than me.) I was like, ‘What does this mean?’ and his eyes get super big, and he’s like, ‘Basically we’re millionaires.’ And that’s when we signed our first term sheet with investors for $1.7 million to start our business.” He slides over the manila envelope, I open it, and there’s charts and numbers and all this technical stuff. “There was a long wooden table, and this big investor man comes and sits down and he has a manila envelope. “I remember the first time we met with Google,” Garrett retells. That two-thousand shortly became one million, and big investors such as Facebook and Google began calling. During the first launch day, Scan had two thousand downloads. Garrett began his entrepreneurial pursuits originally doing web design privately, but decided to look for new opportunities and with two other friends built Scan, an app that reads QR codes with embedded URLs to redirect users to websites. “There’s so many well-rounded life lessons taught about how business applies to your family, your faith, and so many other aspects, and that became a part of me without realizing it.” “I feel like the Rollins Center was always really good at teaching more than business,” Garrett said.
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