David Hauser - Entrepreneur, Author, Speaker & Investor | How To Transform Your Life

Success Story with Scott D. Clary

Success Story Media

Business, Education, How To, Self-improvement

4.6 • 326 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2024

⏱️ 88 minutes

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➡️ Like The Podcast? Leave A Rating: https://ratethispodcast.com/successstory ➡️ Join 321,000 people who read my free weekly newsletter: https://newsletter.scottdclary.com ➡️ About The GuestDavid Hauser is an accomplished entrepreneur and angel investor, recognized for co-founding Grasshopper, a virtual phone system for small businesses. Under his leadership, Grasshopper expanded to support over 150,000 entrepreneurs before being acquired by Citrix for $170 million. He also founded Chargify, a billing software company, and is respected for his skills in scaling businesses, building effective teams, and cultivating a positive company culture.In addition to his business pursuits, David is a strong advocate for wellness. He wrote Unstoppable, a book that shares his personal journey to enhancing health and performance through diet, exercise, and mindset. David's commitment to health and productivity encourages entrepreneurs to achieve success while maintaining their well-being. ➡️ Show Linkshttps://www.instagram.com/dhauser/ https://x.com/dh/https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidhauser/ ➡️ Podcast SponsorsHubspot - https://hubspot.com/ The Product Boss Podcast - https://www.theproductboss.com/podcastNetSuite — https://netsuite.com/scottclary/Indeed - https://indeed.com/claryDemostack - https://www.demostack.comMiro - https://miro.com/successpodPolicygenius - https://www.policygenius.com ➡️ Talking Points00:00 - Intro01:59 - Power of Diet, Yoga & Meditation04:00 - Why Mindfulness Matters09:20 - Building Companies with Mindfulness11:16 - Lessons in Scaling & Exiting14:23 - Avoiding Shiny Object Syndrome19:05 - David’s Early Start in Entrepreneurship22:24 - Raising Capital as a Young Founder23:51 - Grasshopper's Fast Growth29:26 - Core Values for Startups34:15 - The Game-Changer: Business Coaches36:03 - Mentor vs. Business Coach40:11 - Sponsor: The Product Boss Podcast40:52 - Exiting Grasshopper49:24 - From Operator to Investor52:18 - Lessons from Bad Investments53:44 - David’s Health Routine59:10 - Diet & Wellness Tips1:03:52 - Handling Panic in Public1:07:47 - Founders’ Mistakes at the $1M Mark1:09:35 - What David Looks for in Investments1:12:59 - David’s Parting Wisdom1:19:07 - Advice to Younger Self1:20:05 - Defining Success

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0:00.0	AI might be the most important innovation ever.
0:03.0	It's storming every industry with literally billions being invested.
0:07.0	So buckle up.
0:08.0	The problem is that AI needs the right data and a lot of speed and processing power.
0:12.0	So how do you compete without costs
0:13.9	spiraling out of control? Time to upgrade to the next generation of the
0:18.0	cloud. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure or OCI.
0:21.0	OCI is a single platform for your infrastructure, database and application
0:25.2	development with AI embedded across it all.
0:28.1	And Oracle Sovereign Cloud helps you address your requirements for location, access and data
0:32.2	residency.
0:33.2	OCI provides blazing fast speeds for AI's demanding workloads
0:37.1	and in the cloud when you pay by the minute, speed matters.
0:40.4	And of course, nobody does data better than Oracle.
0:44.0	If you want OCI to help you do more and spend less, like Uber, the Premier League and
0:48.2	Oracle Redball Racing, take a free test drive at Oracle.com
0:51.4	com slash bandwidth.
0:55.0	Oracle. com slash bandwidth.
0:57.0	We have this monkey brain and we just keep thinking and thinking
1:00.0	and as entrepreneurs were like what's the next thing
1:02.0	what I'm doing what am I doing what am I concerned about all of these problems I find it hard to sit but in yoga
1:07.0	the movement lost the breath gives me the ability to calm the mind a lot of times we ignore people and we get things right. I think
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