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Seeking Wisdom with David Cancel

#120: #AskDC and Lessons from The Best in Retail (Amazon, Home Depot, Walmart)

Seeking Wisdom with David Cancel

Molly Sloan

Business, Entrepreneurship

5610 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

If you like this episode, we bet that you’ll love our blog content. blog.drift.com/#subscribe Subscribe to never miss a post & join the 20,000+ other pros committed to getting better every day. ----- We’re back and talking about the three books that DC got for everyone on the management team at Drift (and why). Plus the two people he’d want in the room right now outside of Jeff Bezos, Sam Walton, and the Home Depot founders. And the debut of a brand new SW segment: #AskDC. Hit us up with a question for the next #AskDC on Twitter by tweeting @dcancel and @davegerhardt Get something out of this episode? Leave a 6 star review on Apple Podcasts. If you're a fan of the show we would LOVE you to join us at HYPERGROWTH -- our annual conference at Drift. Tuesday 9/4 in Boston and Monday 9/24 in SF. You can get your tickets at hypergrowth.drift.com with the promo code SEEKINGWISDOM for just $199 -- and that is the lowest price on the Internet just for SW fans.

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right. Look, we had a long conversation this week about podcasts. I think we need to do a better intro.

0:14.7

Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, you told me we need to do a better intro. Because what's been happening is we assume that everybody has heard us before.

0:24.7

That's true.

0:25.2

Right?

0:25.7

Yep.

0:26.5

Okay.

0:27.0

So let's just, we're going to make this up on the fly.

0:29.6

Have we started yet?

0:30.3

Yeah, we started.

0:30.8

Okay.

0:31.2

This is seeking wisdom.

0:32.4

Okay.

0:33.0

What's seeking wisdom?

0:33.7

This is seeking wisdom.

0:34.7

Who are you?

0:35.4

I'm DG.

0:36.3

Okay.

0:36.6

And this is D.C.

0:38.0

D.C., um, I, I, to me, seeking wisdom is about, it's about everything. I'm the uncle. You're the uncle. David Cancel. You're the OG. That's Gerhard over there. Dave Gerhardt, the young, the young buck. I was Dave and then I came to Drift and D.C. it was my first day and he said I got your email set up he said but you can't have

0:36.7

Dave at drift.com which is weird because you're not Dave I don't do you. I don't make sense. Anyway, that's DC now. I thank you. Yeah, I don't want it. That's DC. Every week we get on here to talk about something and it's always about personal or professional growth.

1:11.5

That's the way that I...

1:12.1

We've never, like, written it down as a tagline, but that's what I think it is.

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