Jeff Maynes

Founder & CEO, Champion Leadership Group · 1 appearance on the record.

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Jeff Mains is the founder and CEO of Intelligent Contacts and Champion Leadership Group. He is an entrepreneur who has founded multiple companies and authored the book Small Fish, Big Pond.

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Insight

Maynes: Company culture starts with core values, not mission

“People talk about mission and backing into core values, but it starts the opposite. It starts with your core values and that really leads to your vision and leads to your mission and your purpose.”

Jeff Maynes Apr 11, 2023 ▶ 40:14 Jeff Restarted a Company at Minus $5M. Here Is What He Learned

Insight

Maynes: Reaching $10M in revenue makes the next $10M inevitable

“If you grow a company to one the next million is, is inevitable. And I think the same thing is true. You get the 10 and the next 10 is inevitable because it becomes you get that, that flywheel going and you're continuing to grow and grow and grow.”

Jeff Maynes Apr 11, 2023 ▶ 55:52 Jeff Restarted a Company at Minus $5M. Here Is What He Learned

Insight

Maynes: Scaling to $10M revenue involves three predictable transition ceilings

“There are really three transition points on the way to ten million in revenue. One will come sometime between one and two million. There's another one, three to five. A lot of companies will get stuck right there at the four to five million dollar range. And t…”

Jeff Maynes Apr 11, 2023 ▶ 27:21 Jeff Restarted a Company at Minus $5M. Here Is What He Learned

Disclosure

Maynes: Bad executive hire and fraud put his company $5M in debt

“I actually brought somebody in, in an area of the business, particularly in, in this company in payments, that I really had no experience in that, and was looking for somebody that did, and they were supposed to be an expert, and just the way that the system w…”

Jeff Maynes Apr 11, 2023 ▶ 29:57 Jeff Restarted a Company at Minus $5M. Here Is What He Learned

Insight

Maynes: Reaching $10M revenue creates escape velocity against fatal mistakes

“There's not a lot that will kill a ten million dollar company. There, there's certainly things that can but a mistake that you make at 10 is not gonna be completely detrimental to a company, where if you make that same mistake at one, the company's dead.”

Jeff Maynes Apr 11, 2023 ▶ 55:01 Jeff Restarted a Company at Minus $5M. Here Is What He Learned

Disclosure

Maynes: Will Not Accept Outside Financing That Sacrifices Company Control

“Bootstrapped is by far my favorite, and the last couple have been that way, and, you know, will be going forward, just because it really gives you ultimate freedom, and so I've done it the other way where I've had investors. I've done debt financing. I've done…”

Jeff Maynes Apr 11, 2023 ▶ 5:21 Jeff Restarted a Company at Minus $5M. Here Is What He Learned

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Maynes: Built $137M Business Using SBA Loan Without Outside Capital

“The biggest company built was a hundred and thirty seven million, and again, that was with an SBA loan. That was not with any outside investment.”

Jeff Maynes Apr 11, 2023 ▶ 7:14 Jeff Restarted a Company at Minus $5M. Here Is What He Learned

Insight

Maynes: Introverts excel in sales through one-on-one curiosity, not extroverted performance

“How can you possibly be good at sales and be an introvert? And I think it's the curiosity, it's the relationships, it's spending time with people, but not necessarily, you know, big groups being the dancing bear”

Jeff Maynes Apr 11, 2023 ▶ 15:42 Jeff Restarted a Company at Minus $5M. Here Is What He Learned

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Maynes: His startups secure paying customers within two to three months

“A lot of times it is within the first few months. First two to three months, we, we've got, you know, paying customers and they're live, they're using something.”

Jeff Maynes Apr 11, 2023 ▶ 22:59 Jeff Restarted a Company at Minus $5M. Here Is What He Learned

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
Jeff Restarted a Company at Minus $5M. Here Is What He Learned	Apr 11, 2023	36m

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