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Jacob Sellers

Jacob Sellers
Founder

Hi I'm Jacob Sellers and I'm the founder of Equivalent Exchange. To start, we should go back a few years. I was at one point going to school for psychology, pre-med for Psychiatry. I take my meaning in life from the impacts I can make on others. I find value and joy in building others up and helping them be better versions of themselves. I want to see people be the best version they can be, so Psychology was the field for me, and the Psychiatry specialty was because I wanted to make a lot of money. 

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One day a friend and I get talking about silly dreams like world hunger and other such things. It turns out the money it would take to end world hunger isn't that much, (yes it's in the billions) relatively. There are organization and people that potentially have that much power. That's when I realized that it's possible. I thought, "If they have that, I could have that. I could make that difference. I could do that". It's that phrase we all know, "See something, say something", right? If you

see someone in trouble, you do something to help them. To leave it be would be to enable it. Well, I see a lot of people in trouble and I know I'm capable of doing something. That's when the switch flipped for me. 

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I determined that sales was the way. Across most industries, financial growth is in sales. It is quite literally where the money is. So into sales I went. I went through a number of different sales jobs that I didn't quite fit with, or I didn't like the product, or so on. Then I found my way into this industry and immediately, I was locked in. There are three reasons I've decided this is my path and nobody is getting me off of it:

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The first is the money, honestly. I have the opportunity to build extreme wealth in an extremely ethical way. Yes I want luxury things. I want vacations, I want financial freedom, I want fun things. But also, this wealth I am building is what will, in time, help drive changes in the world. This money I am building is what I will use not just to "say something" but to DO something. The opportunity here is not one I would pass up.

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The second reason is the direct impact I can already have on others. I have seen people come in without homes, or extremely anxious and shy, and in six months they've got a new apartment and car, or they're standing up for themselves and what they believe in, and confident in who they are. That is powerful beyond words. I also believe that change happens systemically. I work to build people up directly to be strong, compassionate leaders who are driven to build up others around them similarly. It is through this systemic cascade of resiliency, compassion, and leadership, that I serve. 

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The third reason is the clients we get to work with. We work with various for-profit and non-profit clients, all of which I am grateful to have partnerships with. But knowing that while building my career and developing elite leaders, I'm also already helping drive world-changing missions for some of the best clients around, is the golden lining. 

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This industry is the vehicle through which I will create every dream I have. I will not stop, I will not quit, I will not give up. I will take this as far as possible, till the very end, and then leave a legacy that keeps going long after me. My dreams drive me relentlessly. Your goals and dreams don't have to align with mine, but if you want to be part of something monumental, ff you want to chase your own dreams, we're going after it together. Hop on. We're taking off.

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Grow. Thrive. Lead.

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Grow. Thrive. Lead.

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