Rapid Iteration and Ruthless Decision-making

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The company rapidly conceptualizes, launches, generates revenue, and closes or graduates products within a 90-day cycle. They are decisive in shutting down projects that do not resonate strongly with the team, instead of spending time optimizing for product-market fit. This approach contrasts with traditional venture funding where startups may continually optimize products even if they are not working initially.

Media Empires is back for another season. In today’s episode, Greg Isenberg, CEO of Late Checkout, a holding company for businesses powered by community, joins Erik Torenberg and Sean Linehan, CEO at Exec, to discuss multipreneurship vs solopreneurship, building value around community-based products, requests for startups, and much more.

Media Empires is part of the Turpentine podcast network. To learn more: www.turpentine.co

We're hiring across the board at Turpentine and for Erik's personal team on other projects he's incubating. He's hiring a Chief of Staff, EA, Head of Special Projects, Investment Associate, and more. For a list of JDs, check out: eriktorenberg.com.

LINKS:

Late Checkout: https://www.latecheckout.studio/

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TIMESTAMPS:

(00:00) Episode Preview

(00:55) Welcome + Intro

(03:00) What is a multipreneur?

(08:50) Understanding Greg's empire

(13:08) Promo: The Riff

(14:10) Where does Greg hope to take the AI community?

(19:53) On Late Checkout and where it's going

(36:40) Greg's request for startups

(48:00) Calling all nerds!

(48:35) Wrap

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