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Hi Tribe,
I was honored to host my friends Olivia Fox Cabane, author of the New York Times bestseller The Charisma Myth, and Judah Pollack, a lecturer at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and TEDx speaker, to talk about their latest book The Net and The Butterfly.
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“If Confidence is what is real…ego is what we wish to be true.”
- Ryan Holiday
Hi Tribe,
Ryan Holiday visited Google headquarters for an interview about his thoughts on philosophy, his latest book Ego Is The Enemy, and other topics such as:
Hey Tribe,
A few years ago I had the pleasure of interviewing Stanford Professor Shirzad Chamine, author of the New York Times bestseller Positive Intelligence. His work exposes 10 well-disguised mental saboteurs and shares how to defeat them. I hope you enjoy the talk!
I had the pleasure of interviewing Jay Papasan.
He is the vice president of publishing and executive editor at Keller Williams Realty, Inc. In 2003, with the release of The Millionaire Real Estate Agent, co-authored by Gary Keller and Dave Jenks, Papasan became a best-selling author when the book spent time on BusinessWeek’s best-seller list. In 2005, they co-authored their second bestseller, The Millionaire Real Estate Investor. After working on Rick Villani and Clay Davis’s best-selling FLIP: How to Buy, Fix and Sell Houses for Profit in 2007, he co-authored Your First Home with Gary Keller and Dave Jenks in 2009.
His latest book, The ONE Thing, co-authored with Gary Keller, came out April 1, 2013 and debuted at #6 on the Wall Street Journal bestseller list and reached #1 on May 3, 2013. Since then it has made more than 300 appearances on national bestseller lists and has been translated into 24 languages.
It’s a great talk and I know you’ll learn a lot from it.
Enjoy the talk!
Jay’s presentation will tap into in-depth research with over 120 millionaire real estate investors and draw a straight path based on what they all have in common. That’s The Millionaire Real Estate Investor. And we can organize using the principles of The ONE Thing—itself a 5 year research journey into the common approach found among top performers across both investing, industry, athletics and even the arts.
Several of us have small businesses we are running on the side while working a demanding job. What are the best leveraged activities for those of us with limited time?
My biggest hurdle in getting financing is due to near maxing out my monthly debt to income ratio (due to multiple mortgages). Any thoughts how how to get around this and continue to obtain financing while rates historically low?
As one’s real estate empire grows, overhead becomes an issue. Please give some tips on outsourcing. Do you have opinions on hiring personal assistants as employees/contractors versus outsourcing wholesale to management companies? How do real estate license requirements factor in for hiring PAs?
I had the pleasure of interviewing Tracy Kidder (Pulitzer Prize Winner) and Paul English (Founder of Kayak.com) about Tracy’s latest book Truck Full Of Money: One Man’s Quest to Recover from Great Success.
Paul is known for being the founder of Kayak.com. The company was sold to Priceline.com for $2.1 Billion. Economically Paul is considered a success, but internally the demons of this success nearly destroyed him.
Learn how Paul overcame these demons and used these lessons to start his next endeavor Summits Education a nonprofit that operates 41 primary schools located in one Haiti’s poorest areas where most farmers earn less than $2 dollars per day.
Enjoy the talk!
Writing The Book
Tracy’s research process for writing this book.
How he came up with the title.
What’s his favorite story from the book?
On Paul
How did your humble beginnings influence your success in tech?
How did working full time and going to school affect your development?
Growing up your job seemed to be to make everyone happy at home. How did that affect your business dealings?
Paul can you explain your swings of creativity and dedication to a project?
Being driven goes a far way towards helping us become successful. How has this drive worked against you?
Can you talk about your mentor Thomas White?
Startups
Can you talk about your late night ideas?
How about the calendar toothbrush package?
Can you explain the situation with your decision to split the equity between Boston light employee?
Can you explain Paul’s 20 “plussers”? How did you all end up working together for so long?
How did you handle going from nothing to $120 million?
Setting up blade you saw a lot of pitches. What is your advice for startups?
Haiti:
Can you talk about your work in Haiti?
And much more!