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Explore "advisors" with insightful episodes like "PayPal Turns Around (Slowly)", "3 Paths of an Entrepreneur | Ep 517", "Peter Mallouk: The Path to Financial Freedom | E84", "E1044: Ask Jason! Starting a company in an economic crisis, bringing on & compensating startup advisors, scaling diligence as an angel investor, Jason’s thoughts on solving the unemployment surge & more!" and "#107 - Vinod Khosla and Sam Altman" from podcasts like ""Motley Fool Money", "The Game w/ Alex Hormozi", "Young and Profiting with Hala Taha", "This Week in Startups" and "Y Combinator"" and more!
Episodes (5)
3 Paths of an Entrepreneur | Ep 517
Which path are you taking? Today, Alex (@AlexHormozi) discusses the three paths of entrepreneurship: the pure artist, the pure entrepreneur, and the hybrid path. He explains each path and emphasizes the importance of identifying which path works best for the individual entrepreneur's interests and goals.
Welcome to The Game w/Alex Hormozi, hosted by entrepreneur, founder, investor, author, public speaker, and content creator Alex Hormozi. On this podcast you’ll hear how to get more customers, make more profit per customer, how to keep them longer, and the many failures and lessons Alex has learned on his path from $100M to $1B in net worth.
Timestamps:
(0:26) - 3 paths for entrepreneurs: artist, entrepreneur, hybrid
(2:48) - Artist: doing what you love, not necessarily scaling
(4:14) - Hybrid: combine artist and entrepreneur paths, build around passion
(6:26) - Entrepreneur: business itself is art, build multiple enterprises
(7:53) - Which of the 3 paths are you? (Note: it's okay if it changes)
(9:50) - Most valuable skill: product development, then marketing and sales
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Peter Mallouk: The Path to Financial Freedom | E84
E1044: Ask Jason! Starting a company in an economic crisis, bringing on & compensating startup advisors, scaling diligence as an angel investor, Jason’s thoughts on solving the unemployment surge & more!
2:29 Aaron asks how investors view no-code startups
6:33 Andrii asks if an economic crisis is a good time to start a company
9:52 Jesse asks if he should start trying to raise a round of funding now, or wait until this crisis passes
14:48 Juan asks how he can leverage his first committed angel investor to attract more
19:11 Marcel asks how he can use a "startup mentality" to effectively run his small private school
23:28 Matt asks how to bring on advisors and how he should compensate them
29:46 Mike asks what % of revenue a company should spend on brand & marketing
35:27 Peter asks how much diligence is appropriate for an Angel Investor writing small checks ($5K & under)
41:52 Talha asks what COVID's economic impact will be on Cloud Kitchens, UberEats, DoorDash, etc.
47:56 Ryan asks for Jason's thoughts on solving the unemployment issues due to COVID-19
#107 - Vinod Khosla and Sam Altman
Vinod Khosla is the founder of Khosla Ventures, a firm focused on assisting entrepreneurs to build impactful new energy and technology companies. Previously he was the founding CEO of Sun Microsystems, where he pioneered open systems and commercial RISC processors.
How to Build the Future is hosted by Sam Altman.
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Topics
00:30 - Vinod’s intro
01:20 - A zero-million-dollar company vs a zero-billion-dollar company
4:20 - What percentage of investors in Silicon Valley are good long-term company builders?
4:50 - Who has earned the right to advise an entrepreneur?
6:50 - Which risk to take when
7:20 - Helpful board members
8:15 - Who to trust for what advice
11:00 - First principles thinking and rate of change
13:00 - Evaluating a candidate in an interview
14:15 - How much should a founder have planned and how ambitious should a founder be?
16:30 - Recruiting great people
19:00 - Building a phenomenal early team
20:20 - Being generous with early employee equity
27:00 - Gene pool engineering
27:18 - The art, science, and labor of recruiting
28:20 - How founders should think about investors
31:00 - Doers vs pontificators
32:00 - What does Vinod want to do in the next ten years?
32:10 - Reinventing Societal Infrastructure with Technology