The richest person I know
My friend Jason told me that, growing up, his goal was always, “to be the richest person I know.”
Entrepreneur
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Who are you taking business advice from?
Ninety six percent of companies are turning over less than one million dollars.
The confusion of entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship can be a minefield.
What do you do except hang around the kitchen?
I recently listened to entrepreneur-turned-lecturer A.J. Wasserstein talk about life after he sold his company and found it resonated hugely.
A hundred million dollar idea
After deciding I wanted to get back in the arena, the plan was to come up with a hundred million dollar idea that we could throw the kitchen sink at.
Your culture book
A company’s culture isn’t defined by its CEO.
My top 5 business-changing decisions
What have been your biggest business-changing decisions?
Throwing the kitchen sink at it
One key difference between entrepreneurs that make it and those that don’t is focus.
Testing ground
I once attended a lecture by a university professor who joked that he saw the world of business as a petri dish.
What do you work for?
When a decision came down to price alone, my dad asked the question, “What do you work for?”
Reality distortion field
Bud Tribble, longstanding colleague of Steve Jobs, created a concept to describe a phenomenon that happened when you were in Jobs’ vicinity.
Default mode network
Have you ever had someone ask a question that you know you know the answer to, but you can’t quite find it?