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Helping people untangle personal, professional, and relational problems
"The knot problems can be solved. Comes out in September. If it's September, it's out now. If it's not, you can pre-order it. There'll be a link below. I think, in the context of the world, we might find ourselves in even more knots. So this is a wonderful t..."
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Learning entrepreneurship principles when starting first company
"The Lean Startup was foundational to me when I came to Silicon Valley. I remember I went to a lean startup book event probably back in 2012. You spoke there and it was very inspiring as I was starting my first company."
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Understanding luxury pricing psychology and brand strategy
"Have you read this book called The Luxury Strategy? It's a red book with white letters. I'm going to send it to you because it goes into what you're hitting on — there's human psychology around pricing in the luxury industry."
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"The book that I always recommend on this topic is called The Machiavellians, a famous book from the 1940s by this guy James Burnham who's one of the great geniuses of the 20th century."
Understanding the dangers of prioritizing short-term financial metrics over quality and long-term thinking
"This is related to this great book, The Man Who Broke Capitalism, about Jack Welch. Great book. Because in the year 2000, Forbes magazine named him as the CEO or manager of the century — utter disaster."
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Learning about venture capital history and stories
"The Power Law: venture capital and the making of the new future, which I didn't expect to learn as much from because I've spent 20 years surrounded by venture capitalists and doing angel investing, 17 years of that in Silicon Valley. And yet I still had hun..."
Management philosophy — focusing on fundamentals and inputs rather than obsessing over outcomes
"One of my favorite management books is The Score Takes Care of Itself. Have you guys read that one? It's a great one and it's very empowering because you realize you cannot affect the outcome, you can only affect the inputs. Focus on the basics. You don't w..."
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Automated 24/7 customer support and sales assistance on an ecommerce website
"This is where Tidio comes in. Tidio is an AI-powered customer service tool that sits on your website as a live chat widget. It answers customer questions in real time and it uses this knowledge base you build — your return policy, your shipping times, your ..."
"customer service, you're going to use Tidio. It answers all your FAQs at 3:00 a.m. so you don't have to. It's actually free."
Business biography reading; understanding the combination of personal character and ruthless business acumen
"I also love Titan. That's probably my most favorite business biography. He seemed like a mostly a good dad and a good husband and a ruthless businessman and I like that combination."
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Inspiration to become an entrepreneur after leaving the Navy
"I had read a book by Donald Trump way back then, How to Get Rich. It inspired me to become an entrepreneur, and failed miserably."
Career development and adapting to changing professional requirements
"If you haven't read What Got You Here Won't Get You There or How Women Rise, which is kind of the sister book to that, it's a good reminder."
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New hire onboarding — given to every new team member so they understand the EOS framework before starting
"That is part of our new hire process — we hand them the book or the audio book, What the Heck Is EOS?, so they know what they're walking into."
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"I'm a member of XY Planning Network, so I use them for my annual ADV updates, and anytime I had to file a new state, I use them."
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Looking up local phone numbers for businesses, pediatrician, church, movie theater without internet access
"We don't know the phone number for the movie theater or the pediatrician or the church. We have to get a phone book, so we ordered a phone book. Still have the Yellow Pages — it's called the Real Yellow Pages, as though there are all these other yellow page..."
Framework for thinking about building creative monopolies and first-principles thinking in business
"I think this is probably the only business book, maybe the only business book worth reading. I think I've read this three or four times by now. Highly recommend reading the full book."
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"It's looking up products and actually downloading all the product information and then parsing all that information and then uploading that into a Zoho CRM."
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