HGTV has made it very glamorous and
seemingly easy to do, but the daily grinds of running your small business, liability issues, administrative
tasks, taxation issues, inventory upkeep, time management, personnel management, prospecting, marketing, PR, etc. can kill any aspiring professional very easily.
Building cars isn't an
easy task, but with the vision Jia had of the future — and
seemingly endless Chinese tech money in the bank — it still wasn't difficult to lure in significant talent.