Dashboard: The Numbers Said Don’t Do It. She Did It Anyway.

Opublikowano: 2026-10-09

This week, we talk to Leisa Peterson, who has spent much of her career thinking about money, risk, and the ways our emotions can interfere with financial decisions. So when Peterson and her family decided to launch The Gear Project, a peer-to-peer marketplace for used outdoor equipment, you might have expected her to proceed with unusual discipline and caution. And she did—right up to the point where the numbers started telling her that maybe they shouldn’t launch at all.As Peterson built out her financial projections, she kept discovering costs she hadn’t anticipated. The margins got thinner. The tr...