Sophia: I think you have such an amazing benefit of two things. One is your proven entrepreneur, so people are going to trust a course around building a business from you. The second is you have a built in audience that you can market to. She says the formula is what's your unfair advantage? What's the thing you know? And then figure out who needs to know this or would benefit from it and charge them for it.
Episode 1: Welcome to the FIRST EPISODE of The Crazy Ones, hosted by fellow friends, founders, and builders, Alex Lieberman (@businessbarista), Sophia Amoruso (@sophiaamoruso), and Jesse Pujji (@jspujji). Today, we talk about the rise and the insane $700M evaluation of Liquid Death, then we get into how to make your pitch deck UNDENIABLE to investors, and finally the truths that you need to know as a tech entrepreneur.
1:03 - Liquid Death’s $700M Valuation
8:15 - Sophia Amoruso on Nasty Gal, her $100 Revenue Business, Girlboss & Business Class
8:53 - Jesse Pujji on building the biggest FaceBook marketing business, his venture studio Gateway X
11:57 - Bootstrapping as a state of mind vs. Raising money from Venture
15:03 - Jesse’s pitch on his e-commerce business Kahani
24:38 - Jeff Bezos’ Flywheels on how to make a “defensible” business
26:25 - The #1 Question Entrepreneurs need to Ask In A Pitch
32:35 - Jesse on the idea of “unfair advantage” for entrepreneurs
39:10 - Executive Coaching as a ‘pyramid scheme’ to make $1M in a year
41:20 - Startup AMA
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