I interviewed someone who told Steve Jobs he was wrong and got promoted.

She then built early smartphone companies worth billions.

Here's what I learned from Donna Dubinsky:
Be 100% focused on the person you're with.

• Don't think about what is next
• Don't think about what you just did

Just listen intently and magic happens.
Make a personal balance sheet of strengths and weaknesses

• What am I good at?
• What do I enjoy doing?
• What are my weaknesses?

Those are the answers for what to do in your career.
Sell your ideas

In a company it’s not enough to just be right.

• Get data
• Build an argument
• Find key supporters
You're always optimizing for something.

• Do you want money?
• Do you want impact?
• Do you want freedom?

Once you realize that, you can be intentional about it.
Lesson on impact from Steve Jobs:

A job is more than earning a paycheck.

You can actually have impact in the the world.

“Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can influence it."
- Steve Jobs
Common advice: Fire people fast in your startup

But if every 3 months you have a new executive...

Look in the mirror: Am I the problem?
Push decision-making down the organization.

A failed business is one where the CEO makes every decision.

When the VP of Marketing disagrees with the VP of Manufacturing, force them to figure it out 99% of the time.

This avoids future bottlenecks.
A CEO has 2 jobs:

• Set vision + direction
• Get the right people and give them enough resources
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20 May
Buying these 10 companies would've lost you $180 billion.

Wait never mind, you woulda been fired after a few.

Here are the 10 worst acquisitions of all time👇
Time Warner

• When: 2000
• Who bought: AOL
• How much: $111 billion

AOL forgot how to negotiate here.

They paid 70% extra for each share of Time Warner stock.

2 years later, AOL took a $99 billion loss.

Ouch.
GeoCities

• When: 1999
• Who bought: Yahoo
• How much: $4 billion

GeoCities let you build your own website in the 90s.

It failed but Geocities-izer survives as a way to make your website look retro.
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19 May
The founder of Hyundai stole a cow and ended up with a $13 billion empire.

Here's an epic story👇
Chung ju-yung was born in a small North Korean village in 1915.

His parents were poor farmers.

His dad grew rice while his mom ran the household and raised silkworms for extra money.

(the original side hustler!)
So Chung grows up poor but manages to graduate from 5th grade.

You may be thinking... yea man that isn't hard.

But this was an impressive accomplishment for his town!
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14 May
I just interviewed the man who invented Amazon Prime.

He started a business worth $40 billion today and served on Amazon's board for 15 yrs.

Here are lessons from Bing Gordon that'll save you years of mistakes:
When you have a business idea, take action now before it dies.

• Write 1 paragraph about the idea

• Write a 4 slide business plan

• Write your 1st line of code
When you start a job, ask your boss 2 questions:

1) Who is the best boss you've ever had and what does that mean for me?

2) What does top 10% performance look like?
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11 May
Brands usually suck at social media.

But some don't...

and I found em.

Here's 10 of the best with examples of how they do it👇
Use Stats + Current Events

This tweet got more views than the Oscars this year.

@MorningBrew
Pick a fight by making a joke

@Shopify
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8 May
Buying these 10 companies would've made you $650 billion.

Not too shabby...

Here's a list of the 10 best acquisitions of all time👇
The Michael Jordan of Acquisitions: Instagram

• Who bought it: Facebook
• Buy price: $1 billion
• Value today: $153 billion

let me whip out my calculator real quick..

oh wait yea Facebook made $152 BILLION on this.
Where Google Ads comes from: DoubleClick

• Who bought it: Google
• Buy price: $3.1 billion
• Value today: $127 billion

= $124 billion return

I interviewed their former CEO, Kevin Ryan, who also built MongoDB + Business Insider:

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5 May
There are over 30 million podcast episodes.

and you don't have time to listen to them.

So let me save you time with 7 that will make you smarter today🧵
My First Million with @ShaanVP + @theSamParr

Best Episode: #171 How to Generate Millions from Paid Events

Sam made $100k in 8 weeks hosting paid events with without any previous audience.

He gives a play by play to print money.
The @tferriss Show (the OG)

Best Episode: #341 with @nickkokonas

The most important concept in the damn world is asymmetric risk.

This episode was my first exposure to it.

Been a huge Kokonas fan ever since
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