4.4 • 649 Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Tune into another awesome performance. Jayson was invited to give a short keynote for the Tech Hub Ignite conference. And as usual, he crushed it.
Jayson Waller is a seasoned international motivational speaker, a battle-tested serial entrepreneur, an Apple Top 5 Podcast host - The BAM Podcast & True Underdog, and a USA Today, WSJ & Amazon bestselling author - Own Your Power.
Join him and his world-class guests on a motivational, mind-expanding journey. Learn how to integrate Ai into your everyday workflow. Understand digital marketing at an elite level. Avoid the hard-learned pitfalls, celebrate the sweet victories, AND LAUGH YOUR ASS OFF ALONG THE WAY!
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | All right. |
| 0:01.0 | Okay, thank you for the introduction and super excited to be here. |
| 0:06.8 | I remember doing the TED Talk the night before I did the TED talk here, we came in and |
| 0:11.2 | I learned about the PC being developed here. |
| 0:13.1 | So first of all, get loud about that. |
| 0:15.0 | That's pretty cool, right? |
| 0:16.1 | For entrepreneurs out there, that's pretty cool, okay? |
| 0:19.6 | So I'm the guy who built a billion dollar company and lost it. |
| 0:24.6 | I'm the guy that had to lay off 2,400 employees. |
| 0:28.6 | 40,000 customers out there with no answers. |
| 0:33.6 | Costing me personally $400 million, which hurts. But what hurts more is it was a black eye for the industry, something I believe in, solar energy, |
| 0:42.3 | something that I love, you know, it's innovative, it allows people to own their power, |
| 0:46.3 | it gives energy independence. |
| 0:48.3 | And I had a product liability issue with a company called Generac, and we were getting ready to go public. |
| 0:53.3 | We had a billion 50 valuation. We were doing a reverse merger for a lot of the entrepreneurs out there that |
| 0:58.6 | are new in the entrepreneur game or just starting a business. That means that somebody's already |
| 1:02.5 | publicly traded. They have a lot of cash capital on their balance sheet, and they're going to reverse |
| 1:06.9 | buy your company because you're valued more than them. And so they were going to buy us, a company called Excel Fleet, which actually takes |
| 1:13.6 | gas cars and turns them into hybrids, bad technology, bad company, but they had cash, and they |
| 1:19.6 | needed to be revived. |
| 1:21.6 | And so they wanted to get in the energy independent space. |
| 1:23.6 | And we had a company that installed solar on five NFL stadiums and that did all these |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Jayson Waller, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Jayson Waller and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.