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From Sam's Club Retail Media to Scaled Entrepreneurship with Steven H. Carroll

The CPG Guys

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The Fast Forward Conversation: How to Build a Billion Dollar Company

Microsoft co-founder Steve Ballmer talks about his ambition to build a billion dollar company. He says he came from a Walmart and Sam's Club background but decided one day in the spring of 2021, "I'm a playoff my ambition to be an entrepreneur" The former Major League Baseball player now has more than 1,000 employees working for him at 10 companies.

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And to me, Steve, why that happens is the person sitting across the table who wants to be pleased and doesn't fit that 80-80 is probably feeling a sense of entitlement to something and they don't want to let go. 100%. And in that scenario, no matter if you got a 17-inch monitor, that it probably said the HD resolution wasn't good enough because you didn't get okay. That's right. It would have been something else and something else and something else. Not enough USB-C ports, only USB ports. Yes. So Steve, what a fascinating conversation. Right. Again, if I tried to recap this, I'd have to write a book for you. But we started this conversation all the way up top. You come from a Walmart and Sam's Club background. You decided one day in the spring of 2021, I'm a playoff my ambition to be an entrepreneur. And you weren't shooting for starting something. You were playing for Major League Baseball on day one. And you called your best friend from grade school, fourth grade, Kelso Elementary. Now I know the secret behind that. Yeah. You all started this thing, got private equity funding, raised a bunch of money, started acquiring and you're not even halfway there. You got ways to go in your acquisition. Turn back two years, all of a sudden you have a thousand employees working for you. It's 10 companies. You're not, you said 250 million in revenue. Yeah. And the last question, therefore listening to all of that in the CPU guys, always the same for every guest who comes, we call it fast forward. What's next? Okay.
Speaker 2
What's next? More of the same, more of the same. I want to build a billion dollar company.

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