The Best Storyteller in the World

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When you have ego, it's your equating the actions you're taking to yourself. So anything that I do in the, in the realm of public speaking, I can't change or it can't be different. When you don't have the ego and you're open to the feedback, it allows you to become an entirely different person a year, five years, 10 years from now. One thing that you're phenomenal at is storytelling. Like you might be one of the best storytellers that I know when people might be realizing that from listening to this podcast readyor listening to another podcast. How do you get better at storytelling? The best storyteller around me would be Alex

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