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Early days building a decacorn
- ▶ 6:09 Josh Reeves And so for us, what that meant was both, you know, tops down research, looking at, you know, how many employers are there in America and what products do they use for things like payroll and how many are doing it manually and how many are…
- ▶ 24:45 Josh Reeves At Gusto today, we're solving lots of pain, lots of different products for four and a thousand plus businesses across America, more in the future, including around the world.
Agencies are wildly underrated
- ▶ 15:50 Alex Lieberman And basically the, the thesis of X is that basically every company on earth, but let's start with the U S is going to need to rescaffold their company and 2 times in the scene
A primer on seedstrapping
- ▶ 14:40 Alex Lieberman I think about the internet economy similar to how I think about the US economy, just broadly speaking. 3 times in the scene
How I find business ideas
- ▶ 11:12 Alex Lieberman People like Justin Maris in the U.S. food complex, people like Palmer Luckey in defense, or Dylan Patel in AI and semiconductors.
Navigating Career Pivots (Kyle Hagge, Chief of Staff to the COO at Morning Brew & Co-Host of Per My Last Email)
- ▶ 2:01 Kyle Hagee And I was also freelancing for a civic tech company called Ballot Ready, where essentially I was going in to small counties across the U.S., figuring out when their elections were held, and then taking that data, which is actually really…
How to Become Relentless as an Entrepreneur (Kian Sadeghi, Nucleus)
- ▶ 29:48 Kian Sadeghi They did not come to America and struggle how they struggled, and you know, my, my, you know, I think as any first generation can say, your parents gave you sort of the, the immigrant drive, combined with the opportunity of America. 2 times in the scene
How to Reverse Engineer Great Business Ideas (Sam Parr, The Hustle & Hampton)
Why We Sold Morning Brew
- ▶ 7:12 Alex Lieberman Axel Springer was expanding its portfolio in the US. 2 times in the scene
How I Lost $10,000,000
- ▶ 13:08 Alex Lieberman In retrospect, we were like Fiji, waging war on the United States with a collection of AK-forty-sevens and speedboats versus artillery and aircraft carriers.
7-Figure Business in 48 Hours
- ▶ 16:14 Alex Lieberman The Facebook ad audience showed that the size of this market in the U.S. is 2.5 million people, and the cost of the beard oil that he would try to sell is 50 dollars, which means the market is one hundred and twenty five million dollars.
Why Software is Eating the World
- ▶ 4:59 Alex Lieberman Apple in the last couple weeks became the biggest company in America, judged by market capitalization surpassing ExxonMobil.
- ▶ 13:16 Alex Lieberman CenturyLink, the third largest telecom company in the US with a twenty billion dollar market cap, had fifteen million access lines at the end of June 30th, declining at an annual rate of about seven percent.
- ▶ 19:10 Alex Lieberman And while people watching the values of their four or one case bounce up and down the last few weeks might doubt it, this is a profoundly positive story for the American economy in particular. 6 times in the scene
7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy
- ▶ 4:00 Alex Lieberman This is part of the reason why the US Netflix and the Australian Netflix have different content.
- ▶ 21:05 Alex Lieberman I think of Verizon with their physical network of fiber optic cables, or BNSF Railway, which is the largest freight railroad network in the U.S., and unsurprisingly owned by Berkshire.
How to Get Your First 1,000 Users
- ▶ 16:16 Alex Lieberman We got off the internet, and there was a team out there across the U.S. and Canada attending art, 2 times in the scene
Imitate, Then Innovate
- ▶ 2:49 Alex Lieberman Then David Letterman tried to copy Johnny Carson, but failed and became one of America's great television hosts.
Visionary vs. Fraud
- ▶ 18:14 Alex Lieberman We've decided the rule of law in the U.S. must be a warrior for corporations and old wealthy investors. 2 times in the scene
Active vs. Passive Listening
- ▶ 5:44 Alex Lieberman At the time, the average person in America watched 30 hours of TV per week.
Why The Next Big Thing Looks Like a Toy? Ft. Apple Vision Pro
- ▶ 9:54 Alex Lieberman So just for shits and giggles, I clicked on the category of history, and while pages like the history of the United States existed, obvious pages like history of modern Greece still had never been created by someone.
How to Get Rich (Without Getting Lucky)
- ▶ 7:02 Alex Lieberman In the seventies, this man moved to the US from Iran with little to his name.
A Founder’s Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company
- ▶ 32:51 Sahil Lavingia Uh, the private, private companies, uh, like, just IRS tax returns for, like, C-Corps that do ten million net income, it's, like, 200,000 in the U.S. 2 times in the scene
How to Optimize Taxes as an Entrepreneur
- ▶ 2:31 Ankur Nagpal Very early on, you see the US tax code incentivizes owning a business almost above everything else.
- ▶ 8:08 Ankur Nagpal The biggest one of which that I feel the strongest about and started my company on is called a solo for one K, which is the best retirement plan in America because it has the power of a corporate for one K in terms of having large limits…
Bootstrapping vs. Venture Capital
- ▶ 17:23 Jason Fried I want to open, I want to make tea as popular as, as coffee at Starbucks in America.
Weekly Recap: An Inspirational Entrepreneur, My Convos with Allstate & Activision, and Agency Lessons
- ▶ 0:41 Alex Lieberman In high school, she came over to the U.S. by herself on scholarship. 3 times in the scene
How to Avoid Meetings & Build a Great Remote Culture
- ▶ 20:31 Sam Corcos They're an agency out of the Philippines, and they're, when you compare the cost of, uh, an EA in the Philippines relative to the cost of an engineer in the US, like, it's night and day.
Week In Review: Thoughts on OpenAI, Morning Rituals, and Momentum
- ▶ 5:45 Alex Lieberman This included employees who are on work visas in the U S and they were risking their work visas and having to go back to their countries in order to protect this entrepreneur that they trusted so much.
Avoiding an OpenAI Fiasco by Successfully Building Your Board
- ▶ 16:27 Brett Adcock Um, and right, as of now today in the US, like the IPO, I took my company public on the New York Stock Exchange.
How to Maximize The Value of Your Startup Equity
- ▶ 2:22 Ankur Nagpal And it's incredible the sort of things in the U S tax code, but most people have no idea.
How To Find Great Business Ideas Using Effectuation
- ▶ 22:13 Michael Girdley I think more people doing that would be better for the entrepreneurial community, and the more diversity we can have in the entrepreneurial community, the better for America and the world.
A Rewind for Your Money Matters: Season 4 Recap
- ▶ 3:31 unnamed speaker And if you think about it, right, 70% of the American economy is consumer spending.
- ▶ 6:18 unnamed speaker Yet at the same time, the stock market has been a very good place to generate wealth over time, uh, particularly the U S stock market.
- ▶ 14:03 John Gagliardi So, muni bonds, to start with, those are bonds issued by a state of municipality, and you can buy them, and they're tax-free in the state you live in, in one of the regions of the United States, like D.C., Guam, U.S.
- ▶ 30:02 unnamed speaker This podcast is intended for US persons only, and it's not a solicitation for any Fidelity product or service.
How My Company Went From Zero to a $10 Million Run Rate
- ▶ 3:53 Jesse Poogee So there's just a lot of work that requires someone to go in an interface, pull information, aggregate information, display information, and that's a lot of what the growth assistant in that role will do to, to let the person in the U.S.… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:23 Jesse Poogee You know, typically a staffing agency in the United States, if I just find you an engineer, I mark it up 30%.
Why Coffee Chats Have Energized My Ideas
- ▶ 11:08 Alex Lieberman We've had more mental health startups created than ever before, more venture funding for the space than ever before, yet mental health in the United States has never been this bad.
- ▶ 13:21 Alex Lieberman He lived in India until he was 15, and then he came to the US to go to college. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:58 Alex Lieberman In the US, there are only three approved, three FDA-approved COVID tests, which means the average cost of a COVID test in the US is like 15 to 20 dollars. 2 times in the scene
This Tragedy to Triumph Story is Why I’m an Entrepreneur
- ▶ 10:18 Alex Lieberman Earlier in our conversation, Scott had explained to me that special ed teachers have the highest burnout rate of any job in America, and they have such a high burnout rate because there is so much government mandated paperwork that has to…
8 Businesses I'm Bullish On
- ▶ 7:11 Alex Lieberman 47% of Americans are addicted to their phones, and it has an impact on their happiness, their relationships, and how they want to spend their time.
- ▶ 8:54 Alex Lieberman Is there are very few national brands, so if you look at dog groomers around the U.S., it's all or mostly mom and pop, so it's highly fragmented.
An Investor’s Briefing
- ▶ 6:11 Urien Timmer This has been the year of resilience, really, in the economy, and if you think about it, right, 70% of the American economy is consumer spending.
- ▶ 26:19 unnamed speaker This podcast is intended for U.S. persons only and is not a solicitation for any Fidelity product or service.
How Hoka Ran Away With The Competition
- ▶ 6:13 Alex Lieberman And I believe there are two key moments in 2009 and 2010 that allowed Hoka to indoctrinate the U.S. ultra running community in the brand.
- ▶ 10:20 Alex Lieberman Where it feels like the uglier the apparel or the footwear, the more fashionable it's considered by America's elite. 2 times in the scene
How I Built The Hustle w/ Sam Parr
Why I Would Invest In These Startups
- ▶ 1:39 Alex Lieberman With quote, vertical playgrounds in high foot traffic retail locations in the US.
Preparing for Acquisition w/ Our Future
- ▶ 21:41 Michael Sikand And a twenty-two-year-old kid who managed to sell his fintech app to a hedge fund for tens of millions only a few years after immigrating to the U.S. from China.
“How Soon Should You Have Investor Convos?” - Mailbag #1
- ▶ 19:42 Alex Lieberman I think the only other ones in existence are the ones that I sent to my ambassadors in different cities of the US that they're either collecting dust with right now or using as a super heavy paperweight, but I, I think pivoting really just…
European Wax Center…for Dogs
- ▶ 0:25 Alex Lieberman It's a top five course in the U S it's called Marion golf club.
- ▶ 8:14 Alex Lieberman European Wax Center ultimately wants to get to 3000 locations in the U.S., and the core of their business, and this is why I found it so interesting, is their business operates off of something called Wax Pass, which basically is their…
Building Technology With Infinite Scale
- ▶ 14:05 Brett Adcock And I think the stats are, like, maybe 70% of the world in the next, like, 2030 years will, will be in a city in the US, or sorry, in the world. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:14 Brett Adcock Eleven million jobs in the U S that are just unfilled today.
- ▶ 37:41 Alex Lieberman But how do you conceptualize to yourself what happens to kind of any low labor workers in the US if you succeed?
How Founders Should Be Integrating AI To Their Business
- ▶ 4:21 Alex Lieberman Uh, if anything, people are asking what is ChatGPT, and then the speed by which it went from what is ChatGPT to not just everyone knows about it, and I say everyone in a very nuanced way, everyone as in like in our world, I, I still think,…
How 2 Personal Losses Led To Building The #1 Faith-Based Media Company
- ▶ 46:17 Steve Gatina For all the churches in the United States to post their prayers and their prayer requests. 2 times in the scene
How This Founder Wants to Reward You for Paying Rent
- ▶ 3:30 Ankur Jain and I have talked about this, like my parents, like many other entrepreneurs immigrated to this country, um, nothing. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:10 Ankur Jain So we sent the letter in to the career regulators explaining why we believe this is good for Americans, how this will help people, et cetera.
- ▶ 44:57 Ankur Jain There are forty three million rental households just in the United States, much less any other part of the world.
How To Die…With Zero
- ▶ 24:43 Alex Lieberman It becomes way less realistic, or let's say you want to skydive or ride a motorcycle across the U.S., that's probably something you drop in a bucket before the age of 60, and so time buckets are this incredibly good proactive and organized…
The Business Behind Conferences + Embracing Confrontation
- ▶ 0:14 Alex Lieberman Our producer, Raymond, was telling us we have heard from listeners in Scotland, Korea, Switzerland, US.
- ▶ 58:12 Alex Lieberman So I've gotten five ambassadors in different cities in the U S to have the game and host weekly events.
The Story of Sam Zemurray is Bananas
- ▶ 20:33 Jesse Pujji He like lived with his uncle in Alabama in the South of America, which is kind of a strange setting for like a Jewish Russian Jewish immigrant. 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:54 Alex Lieberman And so their wedge product was LLC formation specifically for non-US residents. 4 times in the scene
How a 26-Year Old With Autism Built a $10 Million Samurai Sword Business
- ▶ 3:11 Alex Lieberman You, your journey of coming to the U S you talk about, you know, your mom working really hard to get you here and what just growing up was like for you. 4 times in the scene
Takeaways from Rihanna’s Career & How to Test Your Business Ideas
- ▶ 45:02 Jesse Pujji The United States is three hundred and thirty million people.
The Story of Richard Branson & How to Find Product-Market Fit
- ▶ 34:44 Alex Lieberman Out of this carbon fiber base that made it way more fuel efficient, where it used the same amount of fuel as a truck on the road in the US.
Jonathan Swanson on Building a Unicorn and Delegating 90% of Your Life
- ▶ 28:04 Jonathan Swanson Applications from all around the world, from Philippines, India, you know, Jamaica, the United States at all price points. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:07 Jonathan Swanson And, you know, people like the three of us are just like so fortunate to have unlimited opportunity because we live in America and, you know, we have some tech skills and all sorts of things. 3 times in the scene
Our 2023 Predictions, from AI to the Creator Economy
- ▶ 9:04 Alex Lieberman Markets are down somewhere between 20 and 30% in the US.
- ▶ 27:57 Alex Lieberman Um, tick tock is sold to a U S company. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:45 Jesse Pujji I mean, dude, there's three hundred thirty million people in the US. 2 times in the scene
Building a Multimillion Dollar Business…By Yourself
- ▶ 8:32 Jesse Pujji And, you know, so like there's, you know, we'd looked at basically how many companies are there in the U S and so just guess how many, you know, there's, there's four categories.
We Give Away 7 Profitable Side Hustle Ideas for 2023
- ▶ 10:52 Alex Lieberman The fourth highest density city in the U.S., which I didn't realize.
The Genius of Spotify Wrapped and How to Copy It, and How to Sell Your Business for 9 Figures
- ▶ 39:40 Alex Lieberman Austin and I are on a Zoom call with, you know, let's call it, 14 people, half of which are in Berlin, and it's night time there, half of which are people in the U.S., and they, they say, you know, we're gonna send the, or like, uh, we're…
How the Founder of 1-800-GOT-JUNK Built His $700M Empire
- ▶ 6:16 Brian Scudamore We have about 600 employees in the head office, about 250 franchise owners across Canada, the United States, and Australia, sold out with the one 800 got junk, still plenty of territory left, and wow, one day in shot shine.
How Codie Sanchez Built a $50 Million Portfolio of Boring Businesses, and the #1 Skill to Learn in a Recession
- ▶ 14:22 Codie Sanchez We're not used to it, especially as Americans.
- ▶ 40:31 Codie Sanchez 25% of construction stores, grocery stores, coffee shops, just about everything you can think of in the US is owned by giant conglomerates. 3 times in the scene
An Introduction to Network Effects
- ▶ 6:16 Alex Lieberman 19 oh eight, there were five million phones in the United States for more than ninety million people, and most of these phones were operated by a company called American Telephone and Telegraph,
Mental Health #6: The Digital Therapist
- ▶ 1:52 Alex Lieberman Just with anxiety alone, forty million adult Americans are diagnosed with an anxiety disorder, yet just 36% of those diagnosed seek treatment.
- ▶ 8:41 Alex Lieberman Like I said, forty million adults in the US have an anxiety disorder that doesn't include people younger than a teen, and it doesn't include people that are either undiagnosed or don't have an anxiety disorder, but experience acute anxiety…
What to Learn from a Business That 10x'd in 5 Quarters
- ▶ 2:26 Alex Lieberman And the answer is because it is a process that is so wildly fragmented across the U.S. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:56 Alex Lieberman If you want to be compliant across the entire U.S., you literally need to pass legislation in thousands of counties and hundreds of industries. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:37 Alex Lieberman If Pat and his team hadn't spent the last five years grinding to make digital notary legal and compliant across the US, and also getting enterprises and their customers comfortable with the notion that if they use a digital notary, there… 3 times in the scene
Costco's Secret Weapon
- ▶ 3:20 Alex Lieberman 91% of its members in the U.S. and Canada stay Costco customers each year.
The Power of Perspective and Prioritizing Family & Friends
- ▶ 0:46 Alex Lieberman 20 years ago, terrorists coordinated four separate attacks on US soil, leading to not only the collapse of the Twin Towers and damage to the Pentagon, but also the death of almost 3000 innocent people.
How Incentives Can Make or Break Your Business
- ▶ 12:43 Alex Lieberman He took it over as a small town steel business, and he grew it to be the third largest player in steel by the year 2002, and today, Nucor is the number one largest steel company in America.
Ethereum 101 & How It Could Top Bitcoin in Cryptocurrency
- ▶ 11:11 Alex Lieberman If you want to go to a deli in the US, you pay with the US dollar.
Entrepreneurship In All Aspects Of Your Life w/ Shopify's Harley Finkelstein
- ▶ 9:42 Harley Finkelstein I went to a really great high school, public high school in the United States, called Spanish River. 2 times in the scene
Why and How I Bought Bitcoin
- ▶ 5:24 Alex Lieberman The U.S. is an inflationary monetary system, and simply what that means in practice is that if you took one dollar in 1917 and you kept it in a safety deposit box for just over a hundred years, if you open that box up today and you brought… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:01 Alex Lieberman And so for Bitcoin, it was, one, the US printing money is bad.