Our guest today is an Army Ranger who hunted down the Al Qaeda bomb network during his time in Iraq. He also led a platoon for fifteen months in the war and he was awarded the Bronze Star with Valor for leading his men during a firefight against Al Qaeda which saved twenty American lives.
But believe it or not, that is not the main reason he is on the podcast today. His name is Blake Hall and he is the Founder and CEO of ID.me which is a $1.5 Billion digital identity verification company which has grown to employing over 1000 people and credited with eliminating $210 billion in government identity fraud out of the estimated $400 billion to take place during the pandemic.
00:52 Intro
01:56 Micro-High Performance Episodes
02:38 Events and Trips For Entrepreneurs
03:00 Seasoned Business Minds Group
04:04 Guest Introduction
06:33 Blake’s Three Characteristics in Building a Successful Company
07:49 The Learning Values as a Army Ranger
10:50 Solving Problems in Entrepreneurial Perspective
13:23 Life as a Army Ranger
21:34 Application to Harvard Business School
23:31 Overlapping Theme Amongst Successful vs. Failed Companies
26:06 The Start of ID.me
29:57 Influence of Estonia to building a Technology Company
32:07 Company Growth Chapters
36:13 The Future of Digital Identity
48:04 Building Systems in Evaluating and Selecting Team Members
49:33 Self-Pressure and Stress in Growing a Company
52:28 Create Healthy Habits
55:35 The Strategies from Steve Blank’s book “The Four Steps to the Epiphany”
01:05:37 Five Different Sleep Chronotypes - same
01:13:51 Reach out and Learn more about ID.me and Blake Hall
01:15:06 Outro
Contact Info:
https://www.id.me/
https://twitter.com/blake_hall
https://www.linkedin.com/in/hallblake/
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