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The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Scharfman: Owner of Just the Cheese | #ThePlaybook 290

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of #ThePlaybook, David Scharfman, Owner of Just the Cheese, shares his insights on: [2:15] - Why he was initially reluctant to get into the family business [4:22] - How entrepreneurs can fool themselves into thinking they need to have a “cool” business [5:15] - Lessons he learned from being a professional poker player, including practicing objectivity and risk assessment [19:52] - The two most difficult challenges of being a small business owner and how to overcome them

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0:00.0

On this episode of the playbook, I have David Sharfman, owner of Just the Cheese, and we're going to talk about the two golden rules of running a business, and you need to operate it like you're going to run it forever.

0:15.0

Join me for all this and more on the playbook.

0:18.6

This is Entrepreneurs the Playbook, where each week I bring you some of the greatest athletes, celebrities, and

0:25.0

entrepreneurs to talk about their personal and professional playbook to

0:29.2

success and what made them champions on the field and in the boardroom.

0:34.6

I'm your host David Melzer.

0:36.8

This is Dame Melcher with Entrepreneurs The Playbook,

0:39.0

and I have another David.

0:40.2

I don't know what it is about that name.

0:41.7

They don't name kids David anymore, but they must have used to name them David because I have David

0:45.6

Sharfman. He is the owner, general manager at just the cheese and I got so

0:50.4

many great things to talk about about the cheese.

0:53.3

David, welcome to the playbook.

0:55.2

Thanks for having me, other David.

0:57.2

Right on.

0:58.1

I love, you know, kids today, I go in those classes,

1:01.0

they're not one kid named David,

1:02.7

but I'm interviewing at least two or three David's a week,

1:05.0

so it makes me feel really good.

1:06.9

Well, God willing you're doing this long enough

1:09.8

that when the generations turn over,

1:11.8

you're gonna have some kid with a hashtag in your interviews

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