Dec 22, 2014
Today’s guest is one of my all-time favourite writers. I never
go more than a few months without rereading his book Choose
Yourself.
He is an American hedge fund manager, entrepreneur, bestselling
author, blogger and podcaster.
He has founded or cofounded over 20 companies and 17 have failed.
He sold one for $15 million and spent all of the money — all of it.
Then he built and sold another within its first year for $10
million.
He fails quickly. He fails frequently.
He claims Entrepreneurship is a sentence of failures punctuated by
brief success. He is invested in about 28 private companies. He
advises about another 50 private companies — companies ranging from
$0 in revenues to a billion in revenues.
This conversation is long than usual but you will not even notice
because not a second is wasted.
Now, let’s hack…
James Altucher.