Throwback to the Launch House cleanout — a $20M LA mansion that ran as a startup accelerator. 25 tech founders living and building companies under one roof. I was never one of them. But I'd been chasing the same dream — just on my own track. A couple years before this day, I was building a travel app called Gypsee — pitching investors, sketching wireframes in coffee shops, all-in on the founder grind. COVID hit, the travel industry collapsed, and the app died with it. I had a family to feed. So I rented a $400 yellow box truck and started hauling junk. Then a few years later I'm cleaning out a mansion full of guys doing exactly what I used to do. I'm not gonna lie — it hit different. I wasn't just a junk hauler walking through. I was someone who'd had that same energy, chased that same dream. I just hadn't done it from a $20M house with Andreessen Horowitz money behind me. I'd done it solo, broke, and gotten knocked flat. But here's the thing I'll never forget: I drove home that night feeling MORE motivated, not less. I realized the founder game and the truck game weren't actually that different. Both were about showing up, building something, and refusing to quit when the math got hard. Today I'm back in the founder seat — building Autopilot. Different industry, same fire. The road took the long way around. But it brought me back to the work I was always going to do. 📌 Save this if you've ever felt like you "fell back" before moving forward. 👇 What's the comeback you're working on right now? #junkremoval #sidehustle - @andrewonautopilot