The Unshakeable Belief

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There's no real way to know. There's no scientific formula. It's so much of it is is about intuition and about luck. Stuart butterfields, i think very luckily shakable belief. Joe clark who started this company, struggled for 15 years. I garry hirschburg was hemorrhaging money for the first ten years of that business. So it's very hard to know when to give up.

Great ideas often come from a simple spark: A soccer player on the New Zealand national team notices all the unused wool his country produces and figures out a way to turn them into shoes (Allbirds). A former Buddhist monk decides the very best way to spread his mindfulness teachings is by launching an app (Headspace). A sandwich cart vendor finds a way to reuse leftover pita bread and turns it into a multimillion-dollar business (Stacy's Pita Chips). In this week's episode award-winning journalist and NPR host Guy Raz speaks to Carl Miller about uncovering the stories of highly successful entrepreneurs. To find out more about Guy's book click here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Built-This-Unexpected-Entrepreneurs/dp/0358216761

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