business owners

also referred to as: business owner

12 statements across 10 episodes · 1 bullish · 5 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Dec 15, 2020 by Peter van Eyprin · across every show →

Everything said about business owners, oldest first

Dec 15, 2020 negative
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Van Eyprin: Founders Often Keep Costly, Zero-Revenue Features to Appease Complainers
“And most business owners are going to give into that. And I see that often, even giving into it at the point where It's an expense for them to maintain it. And there's literally no revenue left from having this feature. They just want to quote unquote, keep th…”
Peter van Eyprin Dec 15, 2020 ▶ 5:54 Why Dogfooding Your Own Product Exposes What All Your Data Misses
Dec 22, 2020
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Halasnik: Founders need three years to learn a business, ten for mastery
“It really takes a business owner three to five years. I would say closer to three to really know what they're doing, you know, with their business. And it takes 10 years to learn how to be a really a professional business owner, you know, learning all the nuan…”
Steven Halasnik Dec 22, 2020 ▶ 10:23 The Chess Board Secret: Why Small Businesses Only Have One Move
Dec 17, 2022
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Weisbrot: If anything goes wrong in business, it is always the founder's fault
“One thing that a lot of people don't realize when they're running a business is if anything goes wrong, it's always your fault. Even if someone else made a mistake, it's your fault because you didn't give them the support they needed or you didn't give them th…”
Sean Weisbrot Dec 17, 2022 ▶ 36:01 Why Done Is Better Than Perfect Has Nothing to Do With Productivity
Mar 8, 2023 negative
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Furman: Founders cannot completely step away from their businesses during childbirth
“If you're working for your own business you really, Are like the last, you know, stop. And so if there's a situation or a problem you're the one that they're gonna be going to, and you can't just take a break because you having a baby, like literally having a …”
Alina Furman Mar 8, 2023 ▶ 3:53 Sleep Deprivation Is a War Tactic. Mothers Do It for Months.
Mar 21, 2023 positive
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Genas: Founders should design systems assuming staff only work their paid hours
“If you start from the basis that Anyone that you hire or anyone you bring into your business is really just here to do the paid hours and need that support. If you start from that base level, then anyone above that is a bonus and you still covered all basis …”
Daniela Genas Mar 21, 2023 ▶ 13:06 She Tells Clients to Build Teams. She Had None of Her Own.
Mar 21, 2023 negative
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Genas: Founders unreasonably expect new hires to match their passion and initiative
“I say that it's actually one of the problems that a lot of business owners, early stage business owners have when they're starting to build their team is they assume that everybody should have the same level of knowledge, the same level of passion, the same le…”
Daniela Genas Mar 21, 2023 ▶ 10:45 She Tells Clients to Build Teams. She Had None of Her Own.
May 9, 2023 negative
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Weisbrot: Founders taking all earnings home are just well-paid freelancers
“Sure you're making 20 grand a month. You're taking all of it home. You're a freelancer. You're not a business owner. You're just, you're a well-paid, you're a well-paid freelancer. So you know, those are some of the stumbling points for people is that they're,…”
Sean Weisbrot May 9, 2023 ▶ 32:09 He Called It a Work Husband. Then Came the Surprise Money.
Jan 25, 2024
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Sean Weisbrot: Business Owners Cannot Be Both Primary Service Provider and Manager
“What I also learned was that you can't be the provider and the owner, because that was his problem. Because he was trained to be a dentist, not to be a businessman. And he didn't have a partner to help him to grow the business, so he was stuck being a dentist …”
Sean Weisbrot Jan 25, 2024 ▶ 8:25 Show You Care and Let the Market Teach You
Apr 16, 2024 negative
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Weisbrot: Reinvesting 100% of revenue runs business owners into the ground
“So many business owners run themselves into the ground and at the end of it, they have nothing to show for it because they kept putting a hundred percent back into the damn business.”
Sean Weisbrot Apr 16, 2024 ▶ 29:53 95% Referral Growth and He Almost Did It Alone
Apr 8, 2025
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Bishop: Founders Struggle to Delegate Fearing Different Management Methods
“Most business owners, you know, they've, They eat, sleep and breathe their company. It's their primary source of value, of legal validation. It's their baby. And a lot of them would have a very difficult time turning over their business to somebody else to run…”
Cameron Bishop Apr 8, 2025 ▶ 20:03 It Was Printing Money But Every Buyer Walked Away
Apr 8, 2025 neutral
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Bishop: Preparing a Business for Sale Takes One to Three Years
“Because they usually need ideally they need a runway of a minimum of a year and two to three years is usually the case.”
Cameron Bishop Apr 8, 2025 ▶ 11:55 It Was Printing Money But Every Buyer Walked Away
Oct 7, 2025 neutral
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Bhargava: Independent PE firms rely on founder relationships more than megafunds
“So that's not something that I think you need to do as much if you are at a large established, you know, for 30 years private equity firm and you're one of, you know, 15 partners. It's much more important for us, you know, cause we're kind of doing everything …”
Neel Bhargava Oct 7, 2025 ▶ 14:30 Why Two of Neel's Best Deals Came From Knowing an Industry Too Well
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