1179 Why Co-Founder of $20m ARR Company Took Sabbatical to Write "Dream Teams"

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Nathan Latka

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4.6 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Shane Snow is an award-winning journalist, celebrated entrepreneur, and the bestselling author of Smartcuts and the forthcoming DREAM TEAMS (June 2018), as well as the co-author of The Storytelling Edge. He is co-founder of the content technology company Contently, which helps creative people and companies tell great stories together, and serves on the board of the Contently Foundation for Investigative Journalism.
Snow's writing has appeared in Fast Company, Wired, The New Yorker, and dozens more top publications. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts and a recipient of Columbia University's Innovator Award for furthering the cause of journalism. He’s been called a “Wunderkind” by The New York Times, a “Digital Maverick” by Details, and his work “Insanely addicting” by GQ—though he wishes they had been talking about his abs.

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0:00.0	Founded back about eight years ago.
0:01.5	They've scaled now to over 100 folks on their team, 300 customers, enterprise customers that pay about $6 grand a month.
0:07.3	So call it around $20 million in AR today.
0:09.2	Growing rapidly, $20 million raised.
0:10.9	He decided he wasn't the guy to take the company in the CMO role to the next level.
0:15.0	So he took a sabbatical two months.
0:16.5	Went off and wrote this book called Dream Teams, the importance of really embracing competitive stuff
0:21.3	inside of these teams, let the best idea win,
0:23.5	take the other perspectives view after lunch
0:26.2	so you can really get in their shoes.
0:27.9	And ultimately, that's what leads to the best ideas.
0:30.8	This is the top entrepreneurs podcast
0:34.0	where founders share how they started their companies
0:36.7	and got filthy rich or crash and burn.
0:42.0	Each episode features revenue numbers, customer counts, and other insider information that creates
0:48.8	business news headlines. We went from a couple of hundred thousand dollars to two point seven million. I had no money when I started the company. It was a hundred and sixty
0:57.5	million dollars which is the size of any IPOs. We're a bit strapped. We have like a
1:01.7	22,000 customers. With over five million downloads in a very short amount of
1:08.3	time, major outlets like Inc are calling us the fastest growing business show on iTunes.
1:14.0	I'm your host, Nathan Latka, and here's today's episode.
1:18.5	Good morning, everyone.
1:19.6	My guest today is Shane Snow.
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