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  • Painful CEO Decisions; Firing, Fundraising, Culture | Tugce Bulut (Ep.6)
    2024/10/15
    • 👉 Subscribe to my newsletter to get exclusive content and timeless frameworks for company and community building.Tugce Bulut is a serial founder, NED, speaker and AI expert. She founded and exited Streetbees. She was a Tech Pioneer for the World Economic Forum, advisor to the Bank of England, studied poverty alleviation in India and is now founder and 'Chief Excitement Officer' at Luna, an AI matchmaker.
    • In this episode we deep dive into:📖 Chapters
    • 00:00 - Intro
    • 03:12 - Streetbees Journey
    • 13:00 - How CEO Roles Change
    • 22:27 - Prioritisation
    • 27:00 - Hiring & Firing
    • 33:45 - Supporting Early Employees
    • 37:55 - Measuring Culture
    • 51:54 - Cultural Diversity
    • 01:02:17 - Fundraising Masterclass
    • 01:17:56 - Mental Health
    • 01:30:00 - What's unique about you?👉 Follow me on Linkedin for daily posts🤷‍♂️ Who Am I?If we haven’t met before - Hey 👋 I’m AJ, a serial entrepreneur and community expert who believes that company building should be viewed more through the lens of relationship building.Through my videos here on this channel, my podcast and my writing on Linkedin, I share stories and strategies of successful entrepreneurs to help you to connect, and create the most sustainable and fulfilling business - giving you a life of freedom!
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    1 時間 38 分
  • Why 93% of Entrepreneurs Fail At Content Creation | Dan Murray-Serter (Ep.5)
    2024/10/14

    Dan is a serial entrepreneur, content creator, and community builder. He's started a number of businesses, has over 50m downloads on his own podcast (Secret Leaders) and has >500k followers across socials.

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    In this episode we deep dive into:

    📖 Chapters

    00:00 - Intro

    01:20 - How much money?

    08:13 - Personal Brand Process

    22:00 - Content Goals

    25:20 - Balancing Inputs and Outputs

    29:20 - How much should you invest?

    36:15 - My Foundrs Chapter

    53:20 - 10X Your Investment Potential

    59:00 - Who Are You As A Father?

    01:04:30 - Managing Priorities Changing

    01:10:20 - The Awareness Parents Need

    01:12:00 - Losing His Dad & Fatherhood

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    🤷‍♂️ Who Am I?

    If we haven’t met before - Hey 👋 I’m AJ, a serial entrepreneur and community expert who believes that company building should be viewed more through the lens of relationship building.

    Through my videos here on this channel, my podcast and my writing on Linkedin, I share stories of successful entrepreneurs and evidence-based strategies and tools to help you create the most sustainable and fulfilling business - giving you a life of freedom!

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    1 時間 17 分
  • Create Networks Of Power | Sharmadean Reid MBE (Ep.4)
    2024/09/22

    Sharmadean Reid MBE is a serial entrepreneur and founder of The Stack World - a global community of ambitious, mission driven women. This is a powerful, deep dive conversation into:

    📖 Chapters

    00:00 - Intro

    02:20 - Relationship With Control

    06:45 - Impact of Covid

    08:15 - George Floyd Murder

    14:20 - Support Spreadsheet

    16:20 - Support As A Leader

    20:40 - How To Ask For Help

    24:23 - Short & Long Run Balance

    29:40 - Female Founders & VC

    38:08 - Women's Socialisation

    47:30 - Creative vs Commercial

    51:00 - Networks Of Power

    01:02:25 - No Therapy

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    🙋‍♂️ Who am I?

    If we haven’t met before - Hey 👋 I’m AJ, a serial entrepreneur and community expert who believes that company building should be viewed more through the lens of relationship building. Through my videos here on this channel, my podcast and my writing on Linkedin, I share stories of successful entrepreneurs and evidence-based strategies and tools to help you create the most sustainable and fulfilling business - giving you a life of freedom!

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    1 時間 12 分
  • Hard Startup Truths: Funding, Team Design, Skills | James Routledge (Ep.3)
    2024/09/22

    James Routledge is a serial entrepreneur, Chief Product Officer and Venture Capitalist who says it how it is. This is a deep dive conversation into:

    📖 Chapters

    00:00 - Intro

    04:00 - Mentorship

    06:50 - Doing Startup Things Well

    07:53 - VC-Backable Business

    15:00 - US / UK Differences

    18:40 - What To Do With $250m?

    21:45 - Product Market Fit

    27:45 - Founder & Investor Market Fit

    35:18 - Scaling

    39:05 - Work/Life Harmony

    43:30 - Org Chart Design

    49:00 - Skill of Decisiveness

    53:40 - Rockstars & Superstars

    01:02:10 - People As Revenue Centres

    01:05:30 - Managing Superstars

    01:16:10 - What does failure mean?

    01:18:30 - Principles For Enjoying Failure

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    🙋‍♂️ WHO AM I?

    If we haven’t met before - Hey 👋 I’m AJ, a serial entrepreneur and community expert who believes that company building should be viewed more through the lens of relationship building. Through my videos here on this channel, my podcast and my writing on Linkedin, I share stories of successful entrepreneurs and evidence-based strategies and tools to help you create the most sustainable and fulfilling business - giving you a life of freedom!

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    1 時間 22 分
  • BAFTA Winner: Limitless Creativity In Business (Ep.2) w/ Beta Lucca
    2024/09/22

    Beta Lucca is a serial entrepreneur, BAFTA winner, investor, non-executive director, with guest judge appearances of TV shows like The Apprentice. She is also a singer/songwriter, improv. actor, and multifaceted creative. In this interview we tap into how to inject creativity into business while also peeling back the layers of her upbringing and inspirations.

    📖 Chapters

    00:00 Intro

    03:58 Stimulus from Connections

    09:50 Emotions In Business

    11:39 Spaces For Creativity

    14:09 Creative Principles

    21:30 Hiring T-Shapes

    28:50 Quit Or Carry On?

    34:17 Unfair Advantages

    36:38 Making Life More Game-Like

    42:27 How Gamers Brains Are Unique

    44:10 Type Of Decisions

    48:50 Strong Team Probabilities

    49:45 Investor Relationships

    01:05:28 David Bowie

    01:08:10 Being unapologetic

    01:13:20 Her Mum's Inspiration

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    🙋‍♂️ WHO AM I?

    If we haven’t met before - Hey 👋 I’m AJ, a serial entrepreneur and community expert who believes that company building should be viewed more through the lens of relationship building. Through my videos here on this channel, my podcast and my writing on Linkedin, I share stories of successful entrepreneurs and evidence-based strategies and tools to help you create the most sustainable and fulfilling business - giving you a life of freedom!

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    1 時間 26 分
  • Shazam Cofounder: Recipes for Luck, Persistence & Success (Ep.1) w/ Dhiraj Mukherjee
    2024/09/22

    Dhiraj Mukherjee co-founded Shazam in 2000, which then went on to sell to Apple for $400m. They raised $150m in the company's lifetime. In this energising interview we cover:

    00:00 Intro

    04:45 Hiring For Values

    11:00 No Absolute Strengths

    14:00 Beliefs from stories

    19:00 Lessons from failures vs successes

    25:25 Recipe For Persistence

    33:40 How To Delegate

    39:18 Luck

    45:30 Loving Fundraising

    49:40 Impactful Questions

    51:30 What's next? (Climate & Young People)

    1:00:30 Old & Young Working Together

    1:02:30 Conditions For Being Fluid

    01:08:10 Adopt A Culture Of Change

    01:12:30 Selling To Apple

    01:16:20 What stories to tell?

    01:19:00 Sibling relationship 01:23:50 Badges

    01:25:50 Living out our values

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    🙋‍♂️ WHO AM I? If we haven’t met before - Hey 👋 I’m AJ, a serial entrepreneur and community expert who believes that company building should be viewed more through the lens of relationship building. Through my videos here on this channel, my podcast and my writing on Linkedin, I share stories of successful entrepreneurs and evidence-based strategies and tools to help you create the most sustainable and fulfilling business - giving you a life of freedom!

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    1 時間 35 分