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Join host Tom Billio, serial entrepreneur and co-founder of the billion dollar brand Quest and Trishon, on a journey to unlock your potential and realize your vision of success.

Welcome to Impact Theory.

Everybody, welcome to another episode of Impact Theory. You are here, my friends, because you believe like I do that human potential is nearly limitless, but you know that having potential is not the same as actually doing something with it.

So our goal with the show and company is to introduce you to the people and ideas that will help you actually execute on your dreams.

Alright, today's guest is a freakishly accomplished entrepreneur who started his insanely storied career by inventing airport kiosks and music-based video games, you know, NVD.

And that is just a tip of a very large iceberg. I assure you, even if I speed-read his full list of accomplishments, it would take me an hour, it's nuts.

So let me just say this, he's built and sold many of his own companies, held senior management positions at Sony, EMI and Universal Pictures, taken an equity stake in 80 plus companies, raised roughly $800 million for startups, helped grow multi-billion dollar juggernauts such as LinkedIn and eBay before they even IPO'd, and helped transform entire industries and revamped governments.

Because of his unprecedented track record of success, everyone from the Pope to the president have called on him for advice on how to harness the power of positive change, and his recent book Disrupt You, grab the hold of my brain and refuse to let go.

Not only are the ideas brilliant, but his words drip with the credibility that only comes when you've been a soldier on the front lines, and his success on the front lines has made him one of the most sought-after advisors and speakers on the planet.

He's a contributor to the Wall Street Journal and host of its documentary series Wall Street Journal Startup of the Year, and he frequently appears on ABC, NBC, Bloomberg, and many others, as well as teaching innovation at the largest engineering school in the country.

He's also helped develop disruptive solutions for such global brands as Coca-Cola, Disney, and Microsoft. So please, my friends, help me in welcoming the best-selling author and monolithic entrepreneur, who started his first company because no one would hire him.

The dyslexic master of disruption, Jay Samett.

Yeah, thanks for having me. What a pleasure.

Two kinds, words are too nice.

So thank you for saying that. It's very humble, but honestly your book really freaked me out, and it stopped me in my tracks.

It ended up changing the whole way that we do our book reviews now, because I was freaking out to everybody about your book that every entrepreneur needs to read it.

I have a list of the 25 books you have to read. It's going on that list. And so when I did the book review, people like you didn't capture that same sense of enthusiasm.

So now they're all free-wheel and just me sort of going into the meat because your book is transformed of truly.

We'll get into some of the details, but the one thing I want to start with, you go to dyslexic.

Yeah. And when you graduate from college, it's like one of the worst job markets ever.

And this is probably my favorite story. You, instead of going and just giving up, you start your own company, but you do it in a super unique way.

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