CD Baby

4 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 21, 2020 by Derek Sivers · said 9 times in 1 episodes since 2020 · across every show →

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Jul 21, 2020
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
CD Baby scaled to $20M and 85 employees in four years
“While I was away in California, my company grew from four million, sorry, sorry, no, it grew from one million To twenty million in four years. Like it grew from eight employees to 85 employees while I was away.”
Derek Sivers Jul 21, 2020 ▶ 25:29 #88 Derek Sivers: Innovation Versus Imitation
Jul 21, 2020
Insight
Delegating increases a founder's workload before creating long-term operational leverage
“You have to have the longterm perspective. You have to know that's like, all right, this is going to be harder. Yeah, it's going to be harder at first for the long-term gain, right? Like, if you realize that you're at this breaking point, your time is already …”
Derek Sivers Jul 21, 2020 ▶ 27:52 #88 Derek Sivers: Innovation Versus Imitation
Jul 21, 2020 neutral
Disclosure
After selling CD Baby, Sivers planned to change his name and disappear
“My plan was to legally change my name and disappear into Europe and be an open source programmer.”
Derek Sivers Jul 21, 2020 ▶ 1:11:56 #88 Derek Sivers: Innovation Versus Imitation
Jul 21, 2020
Disclosure
Sivers obsessively focuses on one pursuit at a time for months
“I just don't find myself to be that kind of person that can do one thing for an hour and something else for two hours, and then this for an hour, and this for 30 minutes, that I just, I throw myself Completely into whatever I'm doing, almost to a fault. I love…”
Derek Sivers Jul 21, 2020 ▶ 1:23:40 #88 Derek Sivers: Innovation Versus Imitation
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