California, every mention
17 scenes · ← back to California
tap a year for its mentions
every year anyone Jesse Pujji 8Josh Reeves 4Alex Lieberman 4Ankur Jain 3Ankur Nagpal 2Matt Mochari 1Codie Sanchez 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where California comes up
Early days building a decacorn
- ▶ 11:41 Josh Reeves We have to connect to these different government agencies in California. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:26 Josh Reeves So there was a really clear scoping here to companies in California that had never used payroll before, were paying employees for the first time.
- ▶ 18:05 Josh Reeves We had raised a seed fundering ground, so that was part of how we did some of the PR, and we, you know, launched to the world, but again, only in California was our customer focus, only new employers who had never run payroll before, and…
Founder’s Journal’s Next Chapter
- ▶ 7:53 Alex Lieberman Sophia was streaming in from California or Hawaii, and add in the fact that at times there was a huge delay between what you heard from one of the hosts and actually seeing their body language move.
How to Get Your First 1,000 Users
- ▶ 12:47 Alex Lieberman The neighborhood was close-knit and small yet vibrant with the longest-standing homeowners association in the state of California.
1,000 True Fans
- ▶ 3:01 Alex Lieberman You want to join LA Country Club in California, you're paying 250,000 dollars just to set foot on their property, let alone all the annual dues you pay.
How to Optimize Taxes as an Entrepreneur
- ▶ 3:24 Ankur Nagpal If you live in a high tax state like New York or California or whatever, you used to be able to deduct your state taxes from your federal return. 2 times in the scene
Why All Entrepreneurs Are Contrarians w/ Codie Sanchez
- ▶ 3:19 Codie Sanchez As we walked along the beautiful grounds in the Monarch Resort in Cali, he said to me, what are you really doing at the firm?
Are Your Goals Motivated by Joy or by Fear?
- ▶ 3:30 Matt Mochari Uh, but then I moved back to California and, um, we, my, um, we started a family, um, there, wanted to raise our kids there.
How This Founder Wants to Reward You for Paying Rent
- ▶ 4:49 Ankur Jain And so my dad was like a junior systems guy working at a computer company in California.
- ▶ 19:48 Ankur Jain So I would move from California to New York and like, 2 times in the scene
The Business Behind Conferences + Embracing Confrontation
- ▶ 4:05 Jesse Pujji You know, like he, he moved to California at the early forties and started running triathlons.
Rolex Is A Nonprofit + When To Disrupt Your Own Business
- ▶ 49:59 Jesse Pujji We left, we moved to California.
The Story of Sam Zemurray is Bananas
- ▶ 1:33 Jesse Pujji One of our, one of the best parts about moving back from California to the Midwest is the Caribbean. 2 times in the scene
Why Airlines Are Banks, How to Annual Plan for Your Business & The Biggest Myths About Founders
- ▶ 26:04 Jesse Pujji And the waypoint, I guess I'm not a sailor, but apparently when you sail, you know, if you're sailing from California to Australia, you don't go in a straight line.
What You Need to Know Before Raising Capital, and The Billion-Dollar Media Company You’ve Never Heard of
- ▶ 38:31 Jesse Pujji So one cool thing about California is they have to, they force you or whatever they provide for, you get the same benefits as any small business of a certain size. 3 times in the scene
How Spirit Halloween Makes $600M in 2 Months, The Journey of a CEO & Is a Recession Coming?
- ▶ 10:53 Alex Lieberman He founded a discount apparel business in 1983 in California, in San Francisco, and basically what happened was there was a neighboring costume store that did exceptionally well during Halloween, and when that store ended up shutting down…