$0 to $25M: Venture Capital, Raw Entrepreneurship & More, with Chris Gilpin - ACEWEEKLY043

Ace Weekly

Andrew Evans

Entrepreneurship, Self, Entrepreneur, Business, Help, Development, Success, Personal, Aceweekly

5 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

REAL RAW ENTREPRENEURSHIP; Chris Gilpin joins the show this week to share lessons about life and business that will align with anyone who values entrepreneurship. Chris Gilpin cofounded a business while working with Apple, which he eventually sold to Yelp for $25 Million. After selling his business, he dove into multiple ventures, cofounding other start-ups as well being an angel investor in 8 different companies. Chris shares his experience on funding and scaling start ups, difficulties with hiring/management and establishing the right culture in a rapidly expanding business, as well as the role of mental health in the fast paced world of entrepreneurship today. This podcast is content-rich with bare-bones entrepreneurial perspective and advice. You won’t want to miss it!

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00:19- Intro

03:00- Chris’s background

09:00- Prerequisites for entrepreneurship

12:00- Limiting the risk of entrepreneurship

17:30- Knowing when it was time to leave his job at Apple

20:00- Challenges with early start-up stages

22:30- The value of culture & communication

26:00- The importance of diversity for long term success

29:00- Merging his company with Yelp

32:00- Diving into something new

37:00- How Chris evaluates angel investment/small business opportunities

44:00- Prioritizing mental health with such a busy lifestyle

50:00- Advice for anxiety & mental struggles of entrepreneurs today

53:00- Reducing the “noise”

56:00- Basic meditation practice

Transcript

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0:00.0	What is up, guys? Welcome back to the Ace Week podcast. My name is Andrew Evans and I am your host.
0:26.8	If you are a returner, welcome back to the show. And if it's your first time, we want to give you a warm welcome to the show today.
0:32.9	This podcast is a personal development podcast that is focused inside of the business and
0:39.4	entrepreneurship arena.
0:41.6	Every single week, we release an episode that helps equip you all with the skill sets,
0:48.3	the mindset, and most importantly, the habits that are required to become the ace in your life. When we talk about an
0:56.1	ace, we're talking about someone that excels not in just one area, but in multiple areas and is
1:02.0	on the course of excelling in all areas of their life. They are focused on becoming the best
1:06.7	version of themselves and focused on stepping into who it is they are meant to become
1:12.1	in this world and in this lifetime. That's what being an ACE is about. So yes, we are a
1:18.0	business and entrepreneurship podcast, but you don't have to be a business owner or be an
1:23.1	entrepreneur in order to become the best version of yourself. We need people and leaders out there
1:29.2	in the world that, again, are normal people that are choosing to be extraordinary and are really
1:35.5	choosing to be the best version of themselves in whatever way they can, whether you are a mom
1:40.3	taking care of your children, whether you are a business owner and leading a group of people,
1:45.0	whether you are an athlete and leading and being an example on your team, that is exactly what
1:51.0	we need in and across the world. And that's what the show is all about. Each and every single
1:55.2	week, we bring on guests that help give you all from both personal experience and a track record of success to help give you guys
2:03.1	some perspective on what exactly is required and help save you all, some of the learning curve
2:08.1	they might have had in their experience growing as an entrepreneur or as an athlete or as a
2:13.0	peak performer. So if you've been following this show for quite a while, you know that we have an ask
2:19.2	of every single person that listens to this show. And that ask is that if you listen to this
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