169. How to Fall in Love with the Solution, Not the Problem with Uri Levine (Part 2)
The Greg McKeown Podcast
Greg McKeown
4.9 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, I'm your host Greg McEwan, and I'm here with you on this journey to learn. |
| 0:11.1 | Many entrepreneurs fall in love with their products, services and ideas, but according |
| 0:15.2 | to my guest today, this is wrong. |
| 0:18.4 | What Erie Levine argues is that you have to fall in love with the problem not the solution. |
| 0:23.6 | Erie Levine is a passionate entrepreneur, unicorns, companies that reach a valuation of |
| 0:28.3 | more than a billion dollars a rare, but Erie is built too. |
| 0:32.8 | He's the co-founder of Waze, which is the world's largest community-based driving traffic |
| 0:38.6 | and navigation app, with more than 700 million users to date, and which Google acquired for |
| 0:45.0 | more than a billion dollars. |
| 0:46.9 | In part two of our conversation today, he reveals the formula that drove these companies |
| 0:53.2 | to compete with industry veterans and giants alike. |
| 0:57.6 | By the end of this episode, you will be able to be more relevant and valuable to your |
| 1:02.0 | customers than your very best competitors. |
| 1:06.8 | Let's begin. |
| 1:23.2 | And if you want to learn faster and understand more deeply today's episode, then teach one |
| 1:41.0 | idea that you're here today with one other person within the next 24 to 48 hours. |
| 1:52.8 | This episode is sponsored by Factor Meals. |
| 1:55.8 | The season is a bit ironic, I think, because on the one hand, it's a time that can be peaceful, |
| 2:02.2 | rejuvenative, inspirational as it helps us to think about higher, better things. |
| 2:07.8 | And at the same time, it can become reactive. |
| 2:11.2 | It can be the busiest time of the year, and in that intensity, it can be hard to eat in |
| 2:19.0 | a healthy way, and perhaps you're looking for a way to be able to eat a nutritious, |
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