This is Office Hours, where the brightest entrepreneurial minds in business sports and entertainment get together to talk about success, failure and everything in-between take a deep dive into the minds it takes to excel, as our unbelievable hosts and guests share with you the strategies and tools they've used to dominate their respective fields.

On this episode of Office Hours, Jack Canfield, Rich Claiming, Strauss Zelnick, Rob Deerdeck, and Paul Deepa Squalling.

If you're looking for a book on a topic and you can't find it, it means you're supposed to write it.

Jack is a hero of mind and mentor. We work to live, not live to work.

More than tech, we've captured lifestyle and design.

One has been at the root of everything we've done.

It's the most fun when it requires the least amount of effort.

It's tenacity. Dude, that is awesome.

David Meltzer hosts Office Hours.

Let's go to this week's Executive Spotlight.

Each week we'll be interviewing the top entrepreneurs and executives, sharing their personal playbook to success, and the lessons they've learned along the way.

Paul Deepa Squalling is the CEO of Tivoli Audio, an American audio lifestyle company that celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2020.

He was appointed the CEO five years ago, and his career at Tivoli Audio spans from customer service, engineering, sales, marketing, business development, and now CEO.

He has combined his love of music, design, and technology to steer and drive the multi-million dollar company.

Welcome to Office Hours. I'm David Meltzer, and I am here with our Executive Spotlight, Paul Deepa Squalling.

Paul, I'm always curious because I was in the hardware business.

CEO of the first smartphone was a convergence device in 1999 for Samsung.

One of the things I did not like about being in the hardware business was that our biggest competitor was ourselves.

In fact, I always tease when I speak people and say, who's the biggest competitor to Apple, to the iPhone, and everyone will say Samsung, or wherever.

I'll say, no, the iPhone 12 is the biggest competitor, and there's a generational pressure when you're in the hardware business, a technology race when you're in the hardware business.

And then the other thing that is really difficult is you don't know what other people are doing.

So you're competing against yourself and the unknown.

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