From Dishwasher to 8-Figure CEO: How I Did It

In 2019, I sold my 8-figure marketing analytics agency to Dentsu, the world’s fourth-largest media conglomerate.

I’m grateful for the life-changing event and the financial freedom it brought, but things haven’t always worked out this well for me.

In 1990, I hit rock bottom.

Despite having a degree in electrical engineering, I was working as a dishwasher in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

I was lost and broke, and thought I would never achieve anything.

It wasn’t until I realized five things that everything changed for me.

Watch the video to learn how I went from a directionless dishwasher to the CEO of an 8-figure business and then selling it.

Feras Alhlou

Feras has founded, grown, and sold businesses in Silicon Valley and abroad, scaling them from zero revenue to 7 and 8 figures. In 2019, he sold e-Nor, a digital marketing consulting company, to dentsu (a top-5 global media company). Feras has served as an advisor to 150+ other new startup businesses, and in his current venture, Start Up With Feras, he's on a mission to help entrepreneurs in the consulting and services space start and grow their businesses smarter and stronger.

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