Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Mike Sarraille commanded troops at the tier-one level of special operations.

He fought in some of the worst firefights of the Iraq War.

Then he started a company. His verdict?

Building a business is harder than combat.

In the military, especially at the top, if you needed something, you got it.

Big budgets. Clear chains of command.

In entrepreneurship, you are resource-constrained from day one.

Five steps forward, three steps back, every single week.

He scaled a data center company from 50 employees to 500 in under 18 months, and describes it as the hardest thing he has ever done.

No one in his C-suite had done it before. They are learning in real time.

The difference between the battlefield and the boardroom is not intensity.

It is that the boardroom gives you nothing to start with.

🎧 Learn more by tuning into the latest episode of The Hard Way podcast.
youtu.be/iijbh8w9i7M

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