Nutrition entrepreneur Morton coaches young entrepreneurs
Energy First CEO Gerry Morton and Manhattan Chamber CEO Mark Lipps with the Young Entrepreneurs Academy Class of 2016-17 (left to right) Kaitlyn Sciarrino, Ryan Rossow, Isabelle Hory, Austin Koehler, Justin Huebner, Jack Crawford, Max Kamache, Corey Huebner, Ashlynn Huebner and Cali Sheldon. Photos Shortly after graduating from the University of Arizona in 1995 with a degree in entrepreneurship, Gerry Morton took a sales position with a Silicon Valley software start-up. After going public in 1999, it became the fastest growing software company in the country, with a value of $7.5 billion. Morton left the company in 2001 and returned home to Manhattan Beach with $4.5 million in stock and commissions, intent on fulfilling his dream of becoming an entrepreneur. He invested most of his money in a single stock, at $128 a share. It promptly fell to $3 a share. “I got a little drunk on that $4.5 million. Having thought I was set for life, I came right back to where I’d been when I first got out of school,” Morton said. That experience, he said, taught him to never take anything for granted. “Not people, not possessions, not experiences. Nothing.” Gerry Morton addressing the YEA class of…
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