A Contrarian Approach to High Growth Startups with Patrick Campbell
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2019
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Patrick Campbell, a former strategist at Google, now co-founder and CEO of ProfitWell, joins us for this episode of The Unmistakable Creative Podcast. Patrick’s life, which has had a unique upward trajectory, carries an inspiring message of staying true to one’s self and having the courage to choose your own path. Discover the how and why behind Patrick’s decision to pursue his ambitions despite what others expected of him as well as the great and many things he has accomplished along the way.
You can find out more about Patrick Campbell and connect with him on LinkedIn
Follow Patrick on Twitter @Patticus
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| 0:00.0 | You know, I was always a little bit of the black sheep of the family. My older brother, you know, was kind of clear like, you know, he wasn't like going to be a college kid, right? I think if he applied himself, he absolutely could be, but I mean, your parents probably know better than anyone like |
| 0:15.0 | not everyone's made for college right that's this is one path right? |
| 0:19.8 | I mean welders make 150 grand a year and you know there's we're in |
| 0:23.7 | Wow we're in yeah we're in need of hundreds of thousands of them right now right |
| 0:27.6 | and the reason there's so many kids like failing out of college and you know |
| 0:31.1 | getting a bunch of debt is because they're just maybe not meant for |
| 0:33.7 | college, right? |
| 0:35.0 | And so he was kind of on that path. |
| 0:38.5 | He didn't know if you wanted to go into the trades or not, but he eventually did. |
| 0:42.2 | But it's, you know, I was a little bit of the black sheep and I knew it and you |
| 0:45.4 | know at times I was pretty arrogant about it and other times like you know my parents |
| 0:49.6 | or I don't know if my parents were resentful about it, but there was just like a, |
| 0:53.0 | there wasn't a good mix there was oil and water for a while and a lot of axes and so I think, |
| 0:59.0 | yeah, it's been bumpy, it's not great, but I think, you know, my parents, they understand what I do, but they don't understand what I do. It's like working in tech, like, you know, it's all this like sub-stuff of sub-stuff sub stuff that you know when you're in this |
| 1:14.8 | industry everyone's like oh yeah you guys do that oh that's really cool but it's just |
| 1:17.9 | a bunch of jargon right yeah so it's not it's not great but I think the |
| 1:22.3 | relationship it's not great, but I think the relationship, it definitely was probably affected by that difference, that difference in kind of focus and that difference of context that both were there. |
| 1:35.0 | I'm Sreni Rao and this is the unmistakable creative podcast where you get a window into the stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds, started movements, built thriving businesses, written best-selling books, and created insanely interesting art. For more, check out our 500 episode archive |
| 1:54.6 | at unmistakable Creative.com. |
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| 2:15.5 | everyone else's. |
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