PreMint founder, Brendan Mulligan shares his lessons from building several businesses.

He sold LaunchKit to Google and led dev tool products for three years there.

He's built a tonne of other projects and currently runs PodPage and PreMint.

We learn:

• The biggest mistakes founders make
• His framework to solve real problems
• The number 1 flaw that kills NFT projects
• What it's like to sell a business to Google
• The benefits and negatives of startup vs. corporate
• How to prioritise work in your 20's for later success

Connect with Brenden Mulligan: 

• Launch a podcast website - PodPage
• Create an NFT access List - PreMint
• Follow Brenden on Twitter - @Mulligan

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Host Sam Webster Harris explores the psychology of happiness, satisfaction, purpose, and growth through the lens of self-improvement. Success and happiness is a state of mind unique to ourselves and is our responsibility to create.

Watch the pod - YouTube (Growth Mindset)

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Title: PreMint: Solve real problems and don't give up

0:00 Solve real problems and don't give up

01:42 Why do you build so many things?

02:49 Why did you go and work for google? How did career shape happen?

04:30 How did you sell business to google?

07:06 Running own buiz to working at google then leaving

09:17 Big lessons from Google

10:58 What you should learn from google

14:37 Google fail to solve a problem

15:10 Framework to know you're solving a problem

17:13 Not putting a price on the pain 

18:04 Pre-purchase decision + Patreon / Kickstarter

18:30 Issues with Kickstarter

19:24 Where do ideas come from + Podpage genesis

21:53 Any other NFT projects? Why Premint is great

23:04 Expected Pre-Mint to fail - Don't give up!

23:45 Doubling down on your focus area

24:25 NFT trends + Utility tokens

24:54 NFT collections vs utility tokens

26:30 Cycling movements of NFTS

28:09 Metaverse thoughts?

29:20 Advice to younger self - Music industry 20s

30:21 Be a small fish in a big pond

30:55 Derek sivers

31:14 Derek call after leaving google

32:53 BYEEEE

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