David Kidder: ...that my biggest successes would come from following my values

Nobody Told Me!

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Joining us on this episode is angel investor, Bionic co-founder and bestselling author David Kidder. Here’s why we love David—he says the purpose of his life and work is to ignite growth in the lives of people and organizations, to help identify their proprietary gifts and solve the grand challenges of our times.

David’s latest book is called, New to Big: How Companies Can Create Like Entrepreneurs, Invest Like VC’s and Install a Permanent Operating System for Growth.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Jan Black. And I'm Laura Owens. Joining us on this episode is Angel Investor, Bionic, co-founder, and bestselling author David Kidder.
0:22.6	Here's why we love David. He says the purpose of his life and work is to ignite growth
0:27.6	in the lives of people and organizations to help identify their proprietary gifts and solve
0:32.7	the grand challenges of our times. David's latest book is called New to Big, how companies can create like
0:40.2	entrepreneurs, invest like VCs, and install a permanent operating system for growth. David,
0:46.8	we thank you so much for joining us. Incredible grateful to be here. Appreciate it. There are so many
0:52.3	things we'd like to talk with you about, but tell us why you
0:55.7	feel that the purpose of your life and work is to ignite growth in the lives of others.
1:01.3	It's sort of a purpose that I stumbled on about a decade ago, not in the least was raising
1:06.1	three sons and thinking about the purpose of their lives. I wrote an idea called the belief board,
1:12.0	which was really about what's the central purpose of having a family and raising kids,
1:16.9	and then our beliefs around that.
1:18.8	And then up in the Wall Street Journal about 10 years ago is kind of how to lead your family
1:23.9	as if it was an organization.
1:25.7	And out of that came a series of books, the startup playbook
1:28.3	and now new to big, which is really around the idea of how to lead your life in systems and
1:34.1	with purpose and really was about ultimately about growth, about who you're becoming,
1:38.3	as opposed to accomplishing who you are. How is starting a startup or a company of any type a good way to find out who you are as a
1:47.2	person and improve yourself because you face so many challenges and also good things happen,
1:52.6	hopefully? Yeah, I mean, startups are great tests. I mean, even this season, as we're all going
1:57.6	through the pandemic, you know, you kind of have to fall in love with the test because it will shape you. And trying to escape sort of that discomfort is a miscalculation
2:06.0	in many ways because it allows you to experience growth. Startups are great tests. They are,
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