59: Why entrepreneurs need mentors to succeed
Build With Rob
Rob Dyrdek
5 • 636 Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
You don’t know what you don’t know until it’s staring you in the face and you have to learn it fast. But forming mentor-mentee relationships with other more experienced entrepreneurs whose journeys you are hoping to one day emulate is an important way to fill in your blind spots with deep, battle tested knowledge and wisdom. In addition to the guests on the show and emerging entrepreneurs he meets along the way, Rob also mentors someone a little closer to home: his 5-year-old son. Rob’s son is already pitching companies, and as you’ll hear in this episode, has already figured out how to pull the investor card (on his mom).
This is another special episode where we meet an incredible partner of the Do-Or-Dier Visionary Foundation, BUILD, and their CEO, Ayele Shakur. She gives us an overview of BUILD’s mission, which is to teach entrepreneurship to young people to help them succeed in life and business. We then have Jalen Harris, 16-year-old winner of the See it. Believe it. Do it. Challenge and recipient of $10,000 in non-dilutive capital. He lays out his vision for the company he will use the money to build, and how he wants to serve an as example for youth.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Build with Rob. |
| 0:04.5 | It is Rob Deerdeck. |
| 0:07.0 | CEO, man, entrepreneur. |
| 0:09.7 | A guy just out here trying to live a harmonious, high-quality existence, and trying to preach |
| 0:14.4 | to others to do the same. |
| 0:16.7 | And as an entrepreneur, what do I have? |
| 0:18.9 | I have a duty to inspire and mentor other entrepreneurs. |
| 0:24.8 | You know what I mean? |
| 0:25.3 | And I think all of us that are entrepreneurs and have experience and understanding of what it |
| 0:30.5 | takes to build a company and what it means to build teams and actually achieve success |
| 0:35.4 | and one of the hardest things in the world that it's our duty |
| 0:38.5 | to share it with others and mentor others and help give guidance to to individuals and people |
| 0:45.8 | that don't have the same access that we have. You know, and even my path, you know, I like to say |
| 0:53.7 | I was raised by entrepreneur wolves because, you know, I'm, you know, and even my path, you know, I like to say I was raised by entrepreneur wolves because, |
| 0:56.9 | you know, I, you know, started skating at the local skate shop that was ran by a serial |
| 1:02.6 | entrepreneur that really gave me complete insight to how he was building, creating businesses |
| 1:09.2 | that really laid the foundation for my desire |
| 1:12.2 | to do the same thing. |
| 1:14.0 | You know, and then as I grew older, I had mentors that were the founders of the companies |
| 1:19.7 | that I skated for, the Alien Workshop, and both the creative side and Mike Hill, who |
| 1:25.0 | was the creative in marketing of the Alien Workshop, and Chris |
| 1:28.3 | Carter, who was operations and sales and finance. I had these two incredible mentors to kind of learn |
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