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#1559 Cameron Herold coaches me on hiring (so I don’t collapse at my desk)

Startup Stories - Mixergy

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How to Create Momentum and Not Perfection Creates Momentum

I was coaching a CEO the other day. He'll do 6 million in revenue this year out of his dorm room at Cambridge. I'm like, you can't quit. If you're at Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, and Yale, you stay in school. You finish, but I want you to not go after a 4.0. Be OK with getting a 2.8 for the first time in your life. And if 70% of your podcasts are better, that's better. But let me ask you this then. If my assistant just starts pinging people willy nilly and emailing them and saying, hey, can I buy you a microphone? To me, that

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