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7 tactics for non-cringy sales
- ▶ 17:33 Alex Lieberman Jesse is the co-founder of Ampush, which he sold to Red Ventures, and also the founder of Gateway X, which is a venture studio with
How to Use Entrepreneurship to Propel Personal Growth (Jesse Pujji, Ampush & Gateway X)
- ▶ 0:48 Alex Lieberman He's the co-founder of Ampush, one of the first and largest Facebook paid marketing agencies, which he sold to Red Ventures.
- ▶ 4:48 Alex Lieberman Well, I think it's important to juxtapose that to the way that you used to, um, show up when things, like, were going wrong, and I think the story that I've heard you tell is, there was some big account that you had at Ampush. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:34 Jesse Pujji It's, it's so funny because it became like a joke with everyone's spouse at Ampush.
Founder’s Journal’s Next Chapter
- ▶ 5:40 Alex Lieberman Also, co-hosted it with Jesse Poogee, who's my friend, founder of GatewayX and Ampush.
How to Delegate Effectively
- ▶ 0:32 Alex Lieberman Prior to Gateway, Jesse was the co-founder and CEO of Ampush, one of the first and most successful paid social agencies, which eventually sold to Red Ventures and then again to private equity.
- ▶ 16:01 Jesse Pujji And, you know, there's been, we created a whole new like role and function at Ampush once where I had to do that. 2 times in the scene
How My Company Went From Zero to a $10 Million Run Rate
- ▶ 8:15 Jesse Poogee Right, who worked at Ampush, who then were running growth at DoorDash, or running growth at Careof, or running growth at whatever. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:27 Jesse Poogee Like, so, you know, at Ampush, they'd say, make my CPA go down Ampush with Facebook ads. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:54 Jesse Poogee In the case of Ampush, we did not plan the business as a Facebook ads business.
How Founders Should Be Integrating AI To Their Business
- ▶ 32:52 Jesse Pujji We worked with her briefly at Ampush. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:57 Alex Lieberman And I was like, you know, I'm thinking about like some of these really great young hustler employees from Ampush who are unbelievable growth marketers.
Is it Time To Pivot ‘The Plunge’?
- ▶ 8:06 Jesse Pujji And not because, you know, there were some employees asking for it and stuff, but it was just much more like, wait, this is like the funny thing about Ampush in particular was most of the people who click and buy e-commerce direct to…
- ▶ 15:21 Jesse Pujji So when, when red ventures invested in amp push, you know, and Rick Elias is like my mentor and a guy like I love
- ▶ 22:54 Alex Lieberman You probably didn't experience this with Puforia or envelope because I would think those are products that have pretty damn good margins, but like a, a heavy outdoor game, like I've never had to deal with something that has true cogs to it.
- ▶ 28:40 Jesse Pujji And I remember the week before I was like, and this has happened to me with big purchases. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:12 Jesse Pujji And I know for many, many years at ampush, that was like the only reason I was continuing to run the company.
Gaining 150k Followers From One Video + Jesse Reveals His New Business
- ▶ 22:03 Alex Lieberman Do you think it is, or how much more skill do you think it requires for Marc Benioff to run that company than even say when you were running Ampush? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:26 Jesse Pujji You know, Deloitte has, you know, example was like probably for your deal or my deal, like Deloitte got paid probably a couple 100,000 dollars to audit the financials of Ampush and make sure they were legit before the deal got done.
The Shameless Entrepreneur, Shoptalk 2023, When To Delegate
- ▶ 18:54 Jesse Pujji I worked at Goldman and one of the risks of becoming a VC and just like any job, like, you know, this having built a business, like I remember feeling this at Ampush once. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:32 Alex Lieberman Also, I wrote that tweet after being with your, uh, Ampush co-founder at the basketball game. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:29 Jesse Pujji and so we actually used it at Ampush, and I continue to use it to actually calibrate very openly.
- ▶ 48:48 Alex Lieberman And do you find yourself less motivated than you were when you were starting Ampush?
The Business Behind Conferences + Embracing Confrontation
- ▶ 19:13 Jesse Pujji I was, I was telling someone the other day, like in one of the big things that's different for gateway X versus ambush for me is I've gotten a lot better at firing people.
Rolex Is A Nonprofit + When To Disrupt Your Own Business
- ▶ 13:12 Jesse Pujji The, I'm sure you've experienced this with Austin, like, you know, Nick and I realized at some point we had to like create time for our friendship as we were building a push because, because, you know, every time we talk something about… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:43 Jesse Pujji At Ampush, we used it, and I need to re-bring it into GatewayX, but we used the concept of Apple's DRI.
- ▶ 46:37 Jesse Pujji I had a t-shirt business in college, me and, and the ambush co-founders, Chris and Nick started four companies in college. 4 times in the scene
Silicon Valley Bank: What Happened and Why
- ▶ 2:43 Jesse Pujji Um, Silicon Valley Bank was a partner of mine for over 10 years, and like the people there are awesome, and they supported Ampush during tough times, and I think a lot of companies and a lot of businesses. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:55 Jesse Pujji When we, we did an acquisition, they helped finance it.
- ▶ 7:56 Jesse Pujji They had to go and, you know, it's kind of a funny, not funny, but it's an unfortunate sequence of events with PPP, because we actually got our PPP money from Silicon Valley Bank, Ampush did.
- ▶ 15:14 Jesse Pujji We had some, some money from leftover from the Ampush deal in an old bank account, like, that was still
- ▶ 18:20 Alex Lieberman So, so let's just use like you as the example, but I think this can be extrapolated to other founders that that million dollars from ampush that's kept in escrow.
- ▶ 30:05 Jesse Pujji And the payroll, and the boss would go, check, I'm going to sign all these checks, I'm going to know where all the money's going out, and it's something somebody said to me early on, like, you have to take that responsibility, and a year… 2 times in the scene
The Story of Sam Zemurray is Bananas
- ▶ 48:04 Jesse Pujji And in the early days of Ampush, I was 25.
Takeaways from Rihanna’s Career & How to Test Your Business Ideas
- ▶ 27:15 Jesse Pujji When I started amp push and I got, you guys did a little different with morning brew, but like, I do think that commitment is worth. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:47 Alex Lieberman If, if like, I don't know, even just use the example of Ampush or whoever, if you were sharing profitability and an employee ended up sending that to some reporter, like what, what do you view as like the possible repercussion of that, of… 3 times in the scene
The Story of Richard Branson & How to Find Product-Market Fit
- ▶ 6:08 Jesse Pujji And, you know, I had this really unique experience early in my career with Ampush. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:29 Jesse Pujji We built internal software products at Ampush that the teams used.
- ▶ 33:01 Jesse Pujji I don't feel sad, but like, I like John, my old CEO of ambush used to like really get bothered when I'd say we're going to hit fifty million.
- ▶ 50:40 Jesse Pujji I think the other thing is I've made, you know, I wanted to do this at Ampush and, and, you know, in my, my wildest dreams, I figured it out at Ampush. 3 times in the scene
How One Author Raised $41M on Kickstarter
- ▶ 3:15 Alex Lieberman The most ridiculous email that I think we got touching, absurd, slightly strange, was the email of the person who is currently buying an Ampush t-shirt off of Craigslist or Etsy. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:16 Jesse Pujji Like Ampush spent a lot of time hacking. 3 times in the scene
Exclusive: Selling My Company & Making Life-Changing Money
- ▶ 1:26 Alex Lieberman My co-host, Jesse, Class A Crazy, officially sold his business and pushed after, what, 13 years? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:14 Alex Lieberman So you sold your company. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:25 Jesse Pujji So the reason they bought the company, you know, they had had their eyes on it for multiple years. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:08 Alex Lieberman So I want to talk through the mechanics of the deal, but I would say probably some chunk of our audience knows your different businesses between amp push and then all of your, 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:24 Jesse Pujji And I started a new business that for many years we called Ampush Social. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:20 Jesse Pujji I mean, the original Ampush business was more or less gone by 2018 and this new business that we had created that was, it was basically deeper, more involved partnerships, so on and so forth. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:23 Alex Lieberman It was that the primary driver for why you guys were looking to sell and push?
- ▶ 52:02 Jesse Pujji Became the COO of amp push.
- ▶ 58:03 Jesse Pujji Well, an amp push was so core to who I, I mean, I think I wore t-shirts publicly kind of like, like some founders do for five years. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:06 Jesse Pujji Like it's just not an ambush doesn't matter anymore.
Jonathan Swanson on Building a Unicorn and Delegating 90% of Your Life
- ▶ 2:54 Jesse Pujji The, when Ampush was starting, we were like looking for a, an awesome first engineer, and we found this amazing guy from Minnesota.
- ▶ 43:20 Jesse Pujji I, I love this idea, by the way, for 10 years at Ampush, I, I, Uber came in when they were 10, 10 cities and said, I need your help, Jesse. 2 times in the scene
How an Entrepreneur Turns Self-Hate into Love
- ▶ 15:10 Jesse Pujji I think that's a huge, I mean, one of the things, you know, I've, I've told you like Nick and I obviously worked together for 20 years, including starting and push.
- ▶ 17:20 Jesse Pujji We use MBTI a ton at Ampush, and then my coach introduced me to Enneagram, and that's like, you know, my type. 2 times in the scene
Our 2023 Predictions, from AI to the Creator Economy
- ▶ 12:03 Jesse Pujji And you know, when we ambushed, I think one of its best years ever into the year of COVID.
- ▶ 24:02 Jesse Pujji We, when we started running and push, uh, Facebook was doing less than a billion in revenue in.
- ▶ 47:05 Jesse Pujji We call it Ampush calls it APM.
Building a Multimillion Dollar Business…By Yourself
- ▶ 15:08 Jesse Pujji They might potentially might be worth all more than ambush after two years, you know, depending on how you look at them. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:07 Alex Lieberman And so how do you approach given that you're, you know, you have your company and push that you're not actively involved with, but it's your, you know, it's your baby.
We Give Away 7 Profitable Side Hustle Ideas for 2023
- ▶ 17:38 Alex Lieberman Was it, uh, was it Ampush bought it? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:09 Jesse Pujji You know, I tried for six months between leaving and push the CEO and starting gateway X to do that.
Why Airlines Are Banks, How to Annual Plan for Your Business & The Biggest Myths About Founders
- ▶ 16:36 Jesse Pujji So that's a genius part of it, but even I'll just compare two businesses that I've built, you know, amp push.
The Genius of Spotify Wrapped and How to Copy It, and How to Sell Your Business for 9 Figures
- ▶ 23:35 Jesse Pujji Maybe, you know, the, the opportunity they can see how the world is changing and they think that they'll be better as a part strategically of another company, you know, back in the day with amp push, it was.
What You Need to Know Before Raising Capital, and The Billion-Dollar Media Company You’ve Never Heard of
- ▶ 3:07 Jesse Pujji And then they actually had bought a big stake in Ampush in 2015. 5 times in the scene
What Generative AI Means for Startups and Are Executive Coaches Worth It?
- ▶ 25:46 Jesse Pujji I started Ampush when I was 25 and we, we grew the business super hard, super aggressive, bootstrapped it to 30, thirty million in revenue in four or five years and killed ourselves. 2 times in the scene
Can Elon Turn the Twitter Ship Around?
- ▶ 4:50 Jesse Pujji If you Google amp push and McKinsey, there's an article by tech crunch, which describes amp push as the McKinsey of growth marketing. 2 times in the scene
How Did Mr. Beast Build a $1.5 BILLION Empire, the 5 Ways to Brainstorm Business Ideas and How to Hire FAQ
- ▶ 18:22 Jesse Pujji But, but the lesson there, I always used to sit in college with, with my Ampush co-founders and I'd be like,
How to & How NOT to do Layoffs, the Tax Tip to save you MILLIONS and is the Gas App Going to Solve Bullying?
- ▶ 8:08 Jesse Pujji It was the same co-founders I started Ampush with.
- ▶ 11:32 Sophia Amoruso Is that something you're thinking about it and push?
How Spirit Halloween Makes $600M in 2 Months, The Journey of a CEO & Is a Recession Coming?
- ▶ 36:44 Jesse Pujji So that was the investment, uh, into Ampush.
How Liquid Death got a $700 Million Valuation, Making Your Pitch Deck Undeniable & The Hidden Truth of Being a Tech Entrepreneur
- ▶ 10:04 Jesse Pujji But 2010 left and started my first company Ampush, which was totally bootstrapped.
- ▶ 21:31 Jesse Pujji I made that brand with an old designer at Ampush for 200 dollars.
- ▶ 33:29 Jesse Pujji And so like my one idea that I actually is a business I launched as growth assistant, you know, with gateway X, which within a year we were doing well over a million and it was, oh, we had offshore digital marketing at amp push 2 times in the scene