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Thrivetime Show | Business School without the BS
Clay Clark
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | One of the problems, and I know I used to have this, is it's just like, wah, my company does this and this and this and this, and aren't we so cool? |
| 0:06.7 | And that is akin to telling them nothing. |
| 0:09.0 | Well, I laugh at some of these elevator pitches, or I find them amusing because you'd need a 200-story building, you know, for the ride of the elevator to get all of that out. And this is something I call the pasta sauce principle, where, you know, if you have a pot |
| 0:23.2 | of sauce on the stove, the idea is if you boil that down and you reduce it, it's going to |
| 0:27.3 | have a lot more flavor. |
| 0:28.4 | The same is true for speaking. |
| 0:29.9 | I think there's this purge of I want to get every detail out there. |
| 0:34.1 | You'd be a lot better off strategically thinking, what are the two things that would |
| 0:38.6 | really land with this person and compel them to want to hear more? |
| 0:42.9 | Some shows don't need a celebrity narrator to introduce the show. |
| 0:47.4 | But this show dies. |
| 0:49.2 | In a world filled with endless opportunities, why would two men who have built 13 multi-million |
| 0:55.5 | dollar businesses altruistically invest five hours per day to teach you the best practice |
| 1:01.8 | business systems and moves that you can use? Because they believe in you. And they have |
| 1:08.7 | a lot of time in their hands. They started from the bottom, now they're |
| 1:13.0 | here. It's the Thrive Time Show starring the former U.S. Small Business Administration's |
| 1:19.8 | Entrepreneur of the Year, Clay Clark, and the entrepreneur trapped inside an optometrist |
| 1:25.7 | body. Dr. Robert Zuner. |
| 1:29.3 | Two men. |
| 1:30.3 | Eight kids co-created by two different women. |
| 1:34.3 | 13 multi-million dollar businesses. |
| 1:37.3 | We started from the bottom now we're here. |
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