620 - A Day in the Life of an Entrepreneur: I bit off more than I can chew!
The James Altucher Show
James Altucher
4.6 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2020
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host. |
| 0:06.8 | This is the James Altiger show. |
| 0:12.8 | Today is a little bit of an experiment. |
| 0:15.8 | I want to talk to you about a day in the life of an entrepreneur. |
| 0:21.4 | I think everybody has misconceptions about what entrepreneurs are and to be fair, there's |
| 0:28.6 | lots of different kinds of entrepreneurs. |
| 0:30.6 | There's entrepreneurs who stay focused on one thing like Sam Walton, the guy who started |
| 0:36.0 | Walmart, he was obsessed with retail. |
| 0:40.4 | I would always hear these stories about how he would go into competitor stores. |
| 0:45.8 | He was obsessed with every single detail of retail. |
| 0:49.6 | He was really passionately interested in one thing and that's what he was the entrepreneur |
| 0:53.1 | about and that's why the Walton family as a group is probably the richest family in |
| 0:58.1 | America, piggybacking off of his obsession. |
| 1:01.0 | But a lot of entrepreneurs, I would say the average entrepreneur is not focused and does |
| 1:06.7 | many different things. |
| 1:08.4 | And there are reasons for that but I'll give you some examples. |
| 1:11.3 | Richard Branson right now, he's got over 300 different businesses. |
| 1:15.6 | I think there are three out of three different businesses with the Virgin name on it. |
| 1:19.1 | Everything from clothing to music to of course the airline which he sold and then I think |
| 1:25.1 | it just went bankrupt to all sorts of Virgin Galactic, all sorts of things. |
| 1:30.0 | So everything from like clothes to spaceships, Elon Musk. |
| 1:34.0 | Of course there's Tesla but then there's Neuralink which is once the put a chip in the brain |
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