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The Greg McKeown Podcast

167. How to Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution with Uri Levine (Part 1)

The Greg McKeown Podcast

Greg McKeown

Self-improvement, Business, Education

4.91K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Many entrepreneurs fall in love with their products, services, their ideas, but according to my guest today, this is wrong. What Uri Levine argues is that you have to fall in love with the problem, not the solution. Uri is a passionate entrepreneur. Unicorns, which are companies that reach valuation of more than a billion dollars, are rare, but Uri has built two. He is the co-founder of Waze, the world's largest community-based driving traffic navigation app with more than 700 million users to date in which Google acquired for more than a billion dollars. In our conversation today and next week, he reveals the formula that drove these companies to compete with industry veterans and giants alike. By the end of this episode, you'll be able to be more relevant and valuable to your customers than your competitors. Learn more about Uri here: https://urilevine.com/ Join my weekly newsletter at GregMcKeown.com/1mw Learn more about my books and courses at GregMcKeown.com

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0:00.0

Welcome, I'm your host Greg McEwan and I am here with you on this journey to learn.

0:11.1

Many entrepreneurs fall in love with their products, services, their ideas, but according

0:16.6

to my guest today, this is wrong.

0:19.6

What Erie Levine argues is that you have to fall in love with the problem, not the solution.

0:26.9

Erie is a passionate entrepreneur, unicorns, which are companies that reach a valuation

0:31.5

of more than a billion dollars a rare, but Erie has built too.

0:36.3

He is the co-founder of Ways, the world's largest community-based driving traffic navigation

0:42.3

app, with more than 700 million users to date, in which Google acquired for more than

0:48.0

a billion dollars.

0:49.6

In our conversation today and next week, he reveals to Formula that drove these companies

0:55.6

to compete with industry veterans and giants alike.

1:00.0

By the end of this episode, you will be able to be more relevant and valuable to your customers

1:05.6

than your competitors.

1:07.6

Let's begin.

1:25.6

If you want to learn faster, understand this formula more deeply, and increase your influence,

1:40.4

teach an idea from this podcast to one other person within the next 24 to 48 hours.

1:52.6

This episode is sponsored by Factor Meals.

1:55.6

The season is a bit ironic, I think, because on the one hand, it's a time that can be peaceful,

2:02.0

rejuvenative, inspirational as it helps us to think about higher, better things.

2:07.5

And at the same time, it can become reactive.

2:10.9

It can be the busiest time of the year, and in that intensity, it can be hard to eat in

2:18.7

a healthy way, and perhaps you're looking for a way to be able to eat a nutritious,

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