# The Kickass Entrepreneur

> The personal site of Jeff Wiener: a first-person memoir sequence about building a telecom company over 27 years, selling it to private equity in 2017, and the years after, plus free net-worth and income percentile calculators for Canada and the United States.

## About
Jeff Wiener founded Digitcom, a Canadian telecommunications company, in 1991 at age 23 and ran it for 27 years, growing it into an eight-figure business named one of Canada's fastest-growing companies five years running. He sold it to a private equity firm in 2017 and semi-retired at 49. In 2023 he survived a heart attack. He now invests in multi-family real estate and writes here about building and selling a company, wealth, and what comes after an exit. About page: https://thekickassentrepreneur.com/about/

## Start here
The Arc is a single story told across eleven chapters, meant to be read in order from the first company to now.
- Chapter 1. The Day After Selling Your Business: https://thekickassentrepreneur.com/life-after-selling-your-business/
- Chapter 2. Down to My Last Five Hundred Dollars: https://thekickassentrepreneur.com/full-story/
- Chapter 3. The Year I Lost Sixty Percent: https://thekickassentrepreneur.com/the-year-i-lost-sixty-percent/
- Chapter 4. The Week the Bank Pulled My Loan: https://thekickassentrepreneur.com/the-week-the-bank-pulled-my-loan/
- Chapter 5. The Things I Never Told Anyone: https://thekickassentrepreneur.com/the-things-i-never-told-anyone/
- Chapter 6. The Day My Best Employee Quit: https://thekickassentrepreneur.com/the-day-my-best-employee-quit/
- Chapter 7. The Six-Hour Walk: https://thekickassentrepreneur.com/the-six-hour-walk/
- Chapter 8. The Year I Was Gone But Not Gone: https://thekickassentrepreneur.com/the-year-i-was-gone-but-not-gone/
- Chapter 9. A Letter to My Daughter About Money: https://thekickassentrepreneur.com/a-letter-to-my-daughter-about-money/
- Chapter 10. The Day the List Reordered: https://thekickassentrepreneur.com/the-day-the-list-reordered/
- Chapter 11. Success Solved Everything Except the Important Questions: https://thekickassentrepreneur.com/nine-years-after-selling/

## Book
- The Kickass Entrepreneur's Guide to Investing (free PDF, also on Amazon): https://thekickassentrepreneur.com/book/

## Podcast
- The Small Business Millionaire, Jeff Wiener's podcast (fifteen episodes, recorded 2020 and 2021): https://thekickassentrepreneur.com/podcast/

## Calculators
Free, no sign-up, computed in the browser.
- Net Worth by Age Percentile Calculator for Canada ({YEAR}): https://thekickassentrepreneur.com/net-worth-by-age-percentile-calculator-for-canada/ — Where your net worth ranks among Canadians in your age band.
- Net Worth Percentile Calculator for Canada ({YEAR}): https://thekickassentrepreneur.com/net-worth-percentile-calculator-canada/ — Where your net worth ranks among all Canadian households.
- Net Worth Percentile Calculator for the USA ({YEAR}): https://thekickassentrepreneur.com/net-worth-percentile-calculator-usa/ — Where your net worth ranks among all U.S. households.
- Net Worth by Age Percentile Calculator for the USA ({YEAR}): https://thekickassentrepreneur.com/net-worth-by-age-percentile-calculator-for-usa/ — Where your net worth ranks among Americans in your age band.
- Income Percentile Calculator for Canada ({YEAR}): https://thekickassentrepreneur.com/household-income-percentile-calculator-for-canada/ — Where your income ranks among Canadian tax filers.
- Income Percentile Calculator by Province for Canada ({YEAR}): https://thekickassentrepreneur.com/income-percentile-calculator-by-province-for-canada/ — Where your income ranks within your Canadian province.
- Low Income Threshold Calculator for Canada ({YEAR}): https://thekickassentrepreneur.com/low-income-threshold-calculator-for-canada/ — Whether your household income is above or below Canada's low-income line.

## More
- All writing: https://thekickassentrepreneur.com/writing/
- Home: https://thekickassentrepreneur.com/