Is There Anybody That Stands Out for Balance?

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We probably don't hear about those people because the way the world works is there's lists. Lists are about being as highly ranked as possible, which means like you've achieved some maximum of something. So in terms of balance, I don't think we hear aboutThose people because they're not flying all over the place all the time. And maybe there's 30 people that work there or 60 people or eight people. You know, they don't have 12 restaurants. They have one that they built for 10 years and then they built another one. so they have it under control. We all just meet them in our day to day lives. Powerful.

Elliot Bisnow is an entrepreneur. He is the co-creator of Summit and Summit At Sea - an international conference that has featured speakers like Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, and Gary Vaynerchuk. Bisnow has invested in almost 50 early-stage startups, including Uber, Coinbase, Warby Parker & Allbirds.

He is the co-author of Make No Small Plans: Lessons on Thinking Big, Chasing Dreams, and Building Community

I stumbled across Elliott because he is the featured mentor in The Third Door by Alex Banayan.

Learn why he got into business, why people don’t change, how to live in gratitude, mentoring, balance, hosting a dinner party, and why he messed up his interview with Eric Schmidt.

(0:00) Intro

(3:12) Finding Out About Business

(13:20) Dropping Out Of School

(22:45) Living In Gratitude

(27:14) Family Business

(31:42) Seeing People As They Are

(34:14) Why Don’t People Change?

(40:08) Storytelling

(44:50) Interviewing Kobe Bryant

(49:31) Why Do People Hit Us?

(51:16) “I Like People Who Create”

(54:51) Forbes 100 For Balance