David Segal: Building a $200m Business

The Knowledge Project

Shane Parrish

Society & Culture, Technology, Business

4.7 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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From a single storefront to a $200M enterprise, David Segal reveals the sophisticated frameworks behind building a category-defining business. Learn the counterintuitive principles that separate exceptional operators from average founders, including the hidden challenges of success and the strategic tension between working in versus on your business. A look into the mind of a builder who has mastered both the science of operations and the art of scale. And watch in real-time as he does it again with Firebelly Tea. TKP listeners can receive a special 15 percent discount on Firebelly Tea products by visiting www.firebellytea.com and entering the code Shane15 at checkout. Newsletter - I share timeless insights and ideas you can use at work and home. Join over 700k others every Sunday and subscribe to Brain Food. Try it: https://fs.blog/newsletter/ My Book! Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results is out now - https://fs.blog/clear/ Follow me: https://beacons.ai/shaneparrish Join our membership: https://fs.blog/membership/ (00:00) Intro (04:59) What entrepreneurship is (07:10) How to manage your psychology (10:40) Yearly planning, daily action (15:50) Avoiding "ivory-tower syndrome" (18:30) Segal's childhood and background (25:15) The history of DAVIDsTEA and Firebelly (36:40) The evolution of tea and business over the last twenty years (42:30) On failures (49:00) Dealing with depression (52:30) Lessons about money (56:55) Business and life lessons from Warren Buffett (1:00:00) On time management (1:04:50) What's missing in Segal's life (1:08:39) On success Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	There is no shortcut for the work, period.
0:05.0	There's no magic pill.
0:07.0	There's no magic elixir.
0:09.0	It's about habits.
0:10.0	You have to do things even when you don't want to do them.
0:13.0	You have to get up and go for that run even though you don't want to.
0:17.0	I mean, it's really easy when you've had 10 hours of sleep and the sun is shining
0:22.7	and it's warm outside. It's really easy to go for that run or put on that smile or whatever it is.
0:28.9	Like, you know, that's, that's where it's easy. Where it's hard is it's when it, you know,
0:33.6	you had six hours asleep and you're not feeling great and you're feeling sluggish.
0:39.6	And that's actually when you need to do it. Welcome to the Knowledge Project, a podcast about mastering the best of what other people
1:00.4	have already figured out, so you can apply their insights to your life.
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1:40.5	David started David's tea and grew it to over 200 million in annual sales before stepping
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