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Entrepreneur Stories 4⃣ Inspiration

101: Xero Shoes is Running by their Competition... Find out How w/ Shark Tank Contestant: Steven Sashen.

Entrepreneur Stories 4⃣ Inspiration

Millionaire Interviews Podcast & Sir Austin Peek

Careers, Business:careers, Business

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Steven Sashen is the developer and CEO of Xero Shoes. Steven and his wife, Lena Phoenix, started the "Barefoot... PLUS!" sandal business in late 2009... This Episode is Sponsored By: Skillshare is an online learning community with over 20,000 classes in business, marketing, technology, design, and more. Get 2 months of classes for only 99¢, using this link: millionaire-interviews.com/skillshare. Fundrise is the first investment platform to create a simple, low-cost way for anyone to access real estate's historically consistent, exceptional returns. Diversify into real estate today with just $500. To support the show, please visit: millionaire-interviews.com/fundrise. *** For Show Notes, Key Points, Contact Info, Resources Mentioned, & the Fabulous 4 Questions on this episode visit our website: Millionaire Interviews. ***

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0:00.0

I don't have a scalable internet business.

0:04.6

So your podcast, you'll guess that you interview, resonates a lot more.

0:08.1

You interview them very well and you're quite consistent.

0:11.1

So when I'm going for a drive, that's what I listen to.

0:14.5

Well, you're excited, I appreciate it.

0:16.0

So you're in Dubai?

0:17.0

Yeah.

0:18.0

So it's the capital of the wave.

0:20.8

He actually was in the Middle East.

0:22.6

Wow.

0:23.6

I don't know if he invests at all, but at least he can definitely point in the right way

0:26.1

and understand the stuff that you have to deal with.

0:28.6

Yeah.

0:29.6

Awesome.

0:30.6

Okay, yeah, I'll reach out to him.

0:31.6

So I helped, finally.

0:32.6

And I'm just talking to you as helped get my thinking going.

0:39.4

We've had people who've been in footwear for 40 plus years come up to us and say, you

0:42.6

are the only real thing in footwear for the last 50 years.

0:45.7

And they're not trying to blow smoke up our butts.

0:47.7

I'll tell you the biggest mistake that I made, though.

0:53.3

And what we ended up developing is a rules-based object-oriented context-sensitive database that

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