# 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 twelve 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. The Room After the Exit: https://thekickassentrepreneur.com/the-room-after-the-exit/ - Chapter 12. 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 - Net Worth by Age Percentile Calculator for Canada: 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: https://thekickassentrepreneur.com/net-worth-percentile-calculator-canada/ — Where your net worth ranks among all Canadian households. - Net Worth Percentile Calculator for the USA: 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: https://thekickassentrepreneur.com/net-worth-by-age-percentile-calculator-for-usa/ — Where your net worth ranks among Americans in your age band. - Homeowner vs Renter Net Worth Calculator (Canada): https://thekickassentrepreneur.com/net-worth-homeowner-vs-renter-canada/ — How your net worth compares with Canadian homeowners and renters your age. ### Income - Income Percentile Calculator for Canada: https://thekickassentrepreneur.com/household-income-percentile-calculator-for-canada/ — Where your income ranks among Canadian tax filers. - Income Percentile Calculator by Province for Canada: https://thekickassentrepreneur.com/income-percentile-calculator-by-province-for-canada/ — Where your income ranks within your Canadian province. - Low Income Threshold Calculator for Canada: https://thekickassentrepreneur.com/low-income-threshold-calculator-for-canada/ — Whether your household income is above or below Canada's low-income line. - Household Income Percentile Calculator for the USA: https://thekickassentrepreneur.com/income-percentile-calculator-usa/ — Where your household income ranks among all U.S. households. - Top 1%, 5% and 10% Income Threshold Calculator: https://thekickassentrepreneur.com/top-1-percent-income-calculator/ — What income puts you in the top 1%, 5% or 10%, by country and definition. - Salary Percentile Calculator by Age and Province (Canada): https://thekickassentrepreneur.com/salary-percentile-calculator-canada/ — How your salary compares with others your age and province in Canada. ### Business - Business Valuation Calculator: https://thekickassentrepreneur.com/business-valuation-calculator/ — A rough value range for a small business from its earnings. - Business Sale Proceeds Calculator: https://thekickassentrepreneur.com/business-sale-proceeds-calculator/ — What you actually keep after selling a business. - Customer Concentration Risk Calculator: https://thekickassentrepreneur.com/calculators/customer-concentration-risk/ — How much of your revenue rides on your biggest customers. - Break-Even Calculator: https://thekickassentrepreneur.com/calculators/break-even/ — The units and revenue you need to cover your costs. - Owner Earnings / Add-Back Calculator (SDE and EBITDA): https://thekickassentrepreneur.com/calculators/owner-earnings-add-backs/ — Normalize earnings into SDE and EBITDA before a sale. - Cash Runway Calculator: https://thekickassentrepreneur.com/calculators/cash-runway/ — How many months of cash you have left at your current burn. ### Real estate - Cap Rate Calculator: https://thekickassentrepreneur.com/calculators/cap-rate/ — Net operating income and cap rate for a rental property. - Rental Property Cash Flow and DSCR Calculator: https://thekickassentrepreneur.com/calculators/rental-property-cash-flow/ — Cash flow, cash-on-cash return and DSCR for a rental property. ### Independence - Accredited Investor and Wealth Percentile Calculator (US): https://thekickassentrepreneur.com/calculators/accredited-investor-check/ — Whether you meet the SEC accredited-investor criteria, and your wealth percentile. - FIRE Number Calculator: https://thekickassentrepreneur.com/calculators/fire-number/ — Your financial-independence target and the years to reach it. - Coast FIRE Calculator: https://thekickassentrepreneur.com/calculators/coast-fire/ — The amount that, left to grow, reaches your retirement target on its own. - Time to $1M, $5M and $10M Calculator: https://thekickassentrepreneur.com/calculators/time-to-millionaire/ — Years to reach $1M, $5M and $10M at your savings and return. ## More - All writing: https://thekickassentrepreneur.com/writing/ - Home: https://thekickassentrepreneur.com/