107 - Be Comfortable With Being Uncomfortable with Brett Lanier of Bettor Vision

The DMV (Washington, DC | Maryland | Virginia) Business Show

Brett Lanier is the Co-Founder & CEO of Bettor Vision out of Howard County Maryland! They are a free mobile app that allows avid sport fans to have all of their fantasy matches and bets in one place you can track. He was born in Texas and in first grade moved to Columbia, Maryland. He chats about how it was growing up in Columbia, playing different sports and his favorite to play was basketball. Both of this grandparents served, one in the Navy and another in the Marines. After high school he attended West Point and mentions an interesting story how that happened since that was not his first choice. Brett shares an amazing story about a training exercise he did in Ranger School which led to him choosing aviation. He flew several different aircraft's in Iraq his favorite being the beast of the Black Hawk. After several stints in Iraq he wanted to go teach and went back to school and received his MBA from Wharton and mentions the #1 benefit from having a Wharton MBA. He went on to teach three years at his alma mater West Point, teaching leadership, marketing, and international management. Brett takes us behind the scenes of a day time air assault mission in Iraq which they never do since most of them them are done at night. It consisted of 6 Black Hawks, 1 Chinook helicopter, a couple of Kiowa Warrior aircraft's, and around 150 people to surround the town and the story unravels....you do not want to miss it! He shares how the business idea behind Bettor Vision came about and was formed with his Co-Founder Geoff. He mentions about getting comfortable with being uncomfortable. As an entrepreneur you have to get comfortable with selling, failing, being told no more times than you hear yes. Serving in the US Army taught him many tools he uses today in business such as how to manage emotions and leadership. He says how everything takes longer than expected, have enough of a runway and to always be raising money. At the end Brett shares his favorite basketball player of all time - guess who it is?

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