#80: Why DC Sent His Co-Founder to Meet Jocko Willink

Seeking Wisdom with David Cancel

Molly Sloan

Business, Entrepreneurship

5 • 610 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2017

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

"You’re going to Austin to see Jocko." That’s what DC told his co-founder Elias (Drift’s CTO) a few weeks ago. They’ve started two companies together over the last 10 years, and last week, DC sent Elias to go see Jocko Willink— the same Jocko that we talked about on episode #72 Leadership Lessons From A Navy Seal. And now that Elias is back, we had to have him on Seeking Wisdom to tell the whole story, including why he’s been getting up at 4:30 AM ever since.

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0:00.0	What's up, everybody? On this episode of Seeking Wisdom, we're doing something a little different.
0:10.0	It's episode number 80, and for the first time, we are bringing David's co-founder, Drift CTO,
0:16.0	Aalius Taurus, on the podcast. We've talked about him a bunch.
0:20.0	You may remember a story from the first time
0:23.5	Alias did CrossFit and threw up. I think he threw up. Let's just go with that. So anyway,
0:29.8	him and David have been working together for 10 years. They've started two companies together.
0:34.6	But last week, David sent Elias down to Austin, Texas for a three-day
0:41.6	training with Jocko Willink. He is the Navy SEAL that we actually talked about a couple
0:47.2	episodes ago, the author of Extreme Ownership. D.C. sent Elias down to Austin for this training and he came back a changed man and that's
0:57.3	exactly what we're going to talk about today. So I just want to give you a little context before we hop in.
1:02.5	This was a lot of fun. Elias is an awesome guy. Loves having him on with us and can't wait for you
1:09.1	to hear about his trip and what he learned.
1:12.0	Don't forget hypergrowth, September 25th in Boston.
1:15.9	It's heating up.
1:17.0	We can't wait to see everybody there.
1:18.7	Go to hypergrowth.drift.com and you can get your tickets with the promo code seeking wisdom.
1:24.7	I do that.
1:25.3	I show up on people's podcast.
1:27.4	It's absolutely true.
1:28.8	He has not heard one.
1:29.5	You haven't listened to a single episode of this.
1:31.4	A single episode of this.
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