That sort of misses the point. It is pretty soul destroying to cold call that many people.

...And yet articles about call center grunts probably don’t garner front page interest in the same way that “founder” does.

Most call center grunts aren’t also tireless, gutsy, visionary, MD/businesspeople. Also they get a guaranteed salary; he didn’t. Source: am former call center grunt.

There are plenty of people who have inside sales jobs that are commission only. Most sales reps at recruiting firms with split desks would laugh at the notion that 100 calls a week is soul crushing. Most of them are placing 120+ cold calls a day.

5 months of your life calling nursing homes? Not Herculean, Sisyphean.

But this worked, Sisyphus never won.