Welcome to The Learning Leader Show, presented by Incyc global. I am your host, Ryan

Hawk. Thank you so much for being here. Text learners to 44222 to become part of Mindful

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launch team for my upcoming book, The Pursuit of Excellence. I am pumped for this and I

would love to have your support. Text learners to 44222. Now on to tonight's featured

leader, the great Rob Fitzpatrick. He's been an entrepreneur for 14 years, has written

three books about his learnings along the way, including the best-selling handbook for

doing better customer development, the mom test, how to talk to customers, and figure

out if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you. During this conversation,

Rob and I discuss the three simple rules for receiving more useful feedback. And then

the difference between a good question and a bad one, and then a better way to run all

of your meetings. You could implement these ideas immediately. Ladies and gentlemen,

it's the great Rob Fitzpatrick. I told you before, I've been just downloading basically

everything you have ever written to my brain, and it's pouring out of me now, but I just

want to say welcome to the learning leader show. It's great to see you, man. Thanks so much

for having me, Ryan. I'm excited. So I was reading the mom test one of your books and

I flipped to the very back, which I usually do. And in the acknowledgment section, you

thanked your mom and your dad for gently planting the entrepreneurial seed through encouragement

and their own collection of insane startup and shipwreck stories. And so I'm curious,

first, where did you grow up and what did your parents do?

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