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#050 Growing Podcasts, Bookkeeping Biz, and Creator-Led Companies with David Senra and Mitchell Baldridge

Smart Friends

How Do You Know if You Can't Win?

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David Perry: I was listening to your Kobe podcast this morning that you just released and he was talking about his practice, his like historical practice as leverage. He would identify his weaknesses and then keep working until his weaknesses are now strength and then study the grades That biography could have been 250 pages because it's just the same four things over and over again. Find something you're completely obsessed about to have a singular focus,. Have one metric his metric was how many rings. Do I win. And if I can get to four, five, six or seven then I'll have a seat at the table for the time greats which is what he want to do.

Topics:

(4:12) - David on how to grow a podcast & Mitchell as a connector

(13:32) - David on changing the structure of his podcast

(15:58) - Creator-Led Business, Kobe Bryant, Arnold Schwarzenegger & Balaji

(36:49) - The genius of Berkshire Hathaway & The power of Twitter

(51:24) - Creator Economics & Story time with David Senra

(1:06:38) - Eric’s impact on David

(1:09:48) - Mitchell’s career model & Building a bookkeeping business

(1:28:11) - Focusing career growth

(2:04:32) - Thoughts on TikTok

(2:16:43)- How the guys spend their time (Finding operational leverage)

(2:21:29) - Trying to convince Mitchell to start a podcast

(2:24:34) - David’s thoughts on his new business model

(2:33:38) - Wrap Up

Links:

- The Founder’s Podcast w/ David Senra

- Connect with Mitchell Baldridge

- Mitchell Baldridge on Twitter

- David Senra on Twitter

- BetterBookkeping.com

- David’s appearance on Jorgenson’s Soundbox

- Mitchell’s appearance on Jorgenson’s Soundbox

- Trung Phan on Twitter

- Coked Up Options on Twitter

- Ed Thorpe on The Tim Ferriss Show

- Business Breakdowns - Berkshire Hathaway

- George Mack on Twitter

- Frank Niu on TikTok

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