BONUS Ep. 1070 "I Was a Business-Nerd Executive." But He Left It All Behind...
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2018
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Steve Clayton is a former VP at LabCorp, the Fortune 500 company so many of us use to have blood work done. He left behind this prestigious, very high-paying job to strike out as an entrepreneur. He's now an undisputed master of eCommerce (and he's trained numerous Tom Woods Show listeners who have gone on to be extremely prosperous). We talk about his own story, trends in eCommerce, and what he recommends today.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 1,070, bonus episode. |
| 0:04.6 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:09.2 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
| 0:15.7 | Hello, everybody, Tom Woods here. |
| 0:17.0 | Steve Clayton is back with us again. |
| 0:19.3 | We talked to Steve last year. He is a master of e-commerce, |
| 0:24.2 | and in particular of getting newbies up and running in e-commerce. He himself was a VP with Lab Corps, |
| 0:31.4 | a company a great many of you no doubt have heard of, and then just left that all behind to go out on his own, |
| 0:37.2 | and I'm going to ask him about that because that's quite a gutsy move, and then just left that all behind to go out on his own. And I'm going to ask him |
| 0:37.9 | about that because that's quite a gutsy move. And it paid immense dividends for him. He runs |
| 0:44.5 | numerous e-commerce businesses of his own, and he also runs training programs to help people |
| 0:49.8 | get up and running, doing it themselves. So even though he had a great job with Lab Corps, he preferred |
| 0:55.5 | to be more of a nomad and be able to be wherever he wanted and have that kind of lifestyle. |
| 1:00.7 | And he got it. He got it. It's an amazing story because I think a lot of us, myself included, |
| 1:05.6 | are conservative enough that in that position, I think I would have taken, I would have |
| 1:10.5 | accepted the negative aspects of the job and just been glad about the high salary. |
| 1:15.6 | But for him, the money was not enough. There was something more important than money. And he wound up getting the money anyway. So it all worked out very well for him. Steve, welcome back to the show. |
| 1:23.6 | Thanks, Tom. Really excited to be here. Thank you. All right. It's been, I don't know, eight, ten months since we've spoken last. And maybe I've had a lot of new listeners since then and not everybody remembers your story. But you've got such a great story that I feel like I can't talk about e-commerce and the internet and stuff without diving into your personal stake in all this and what it's meant for you and where you |
| 1:44.6 | came from and all that. I mean, here you were a guy with an extremely enviable job, right? |
| 1:50.8 | I mean, your VP over at Lab Corps, a company we've all heard of. We've all had blood testing |
| 1:56.5 | done there. And there you are on top of the world. I don't know what you were earning, |
| 2:00.3 | but I'm sure it was a lot. And you took that. You didn't say, I'm not going to work at McDonald's |
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