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The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Steinberg: Co-Founder and CEO of Zeta | #ThePlaybook 305

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

David Steinberg, Co-Founder and CEO of Zeta, shares his insights on the choices that aspiring entrepreneurs need to make in terms of their formal education, as well as why he believes that a fear of failure can lead to confidence and excellence. Steinberg and host of #ThePlaybook, David Meltzer, chat about topics including how entrepreneurs should shift their perspectives on time in order to be more effective, why it’s important to avoid falling into the “career FOMO” trap, and why the singular ability that separates the most successful entrepreneurs from the rest is the ability to get back up after being knocked down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

On this episode of the playbook, I have David Steinberg, co-founder and CEO of Zeta,

0:07.1

and we're going to talk about how entrepreneurs leverage their fear.

0:11.9

Join me for all of this and more on the playbook. leverage their athletes, celebrities, and entrepreneurs to talk about their personal and professional

0:25.4

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

0:31.5

I'm your host, David Melzer. This Dave Melzer with

0:34.3

entrepreneurs the playbook. I got another David, another king David

0:39.4

David Steinberg co-founder, chairman and CEO CEO of the marketing tech unicorn, Zeta Global.

0:45.7

Welcome to the playbook, David.

0:47.8

Thank you, from one king David to another.

0:50.4

That's right.

0:52.2

I always think David Belick, and we were just talking about how the names have changed over the generations

0:56.7

Now they go to school and it's Dakota M Dakota at J Dakota. You know

1:02.0

When we were kids it it was David S, David M, everybody was, there were three or four David's to a class.

1:08.0

Well, I'm going to start off with a hunch and one of the biggest lessons of being an entrepreneur

1:13.7

and building a business is voting for what you want.

1:17.0

And you and I have so many different similarities.

1:20.2

I imagine that you had some sort of family pressure growing up that may not have been

1:25.5

aligned with your career objectives and I thought...

1:29.7

As a Jewish David from New York you can be sure that they didn't want me to be an

1:35.5

entrepreneur, right?

1:36.7

It's, you know, Dr Steinberg, lawyer, they were, my family never had high enough hopes for me to be a doctor. I wasn't going to excel to that level.

1:46.5

So they thought I should be a lawyer.

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