Ep. 387: Gabriel Weinberg Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2015
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Gabriel Weinberg, the CEO and Founder of DuckDuckGo, a search engine. What sets DuckDuckGo apart from other search engines is the privacy that it guarantees its users. DuckDuckGo promises to never track a user's clicks, or use previous searchers to aid current results. Since creating it 11 years ago, his engine has reached 30 million searches a day in 2018, up 50% from a year before, and is poised to grow even faster since Google added DuckDuckGo as a default search-engine option in its latest Chrome browser in more than 60 markets in March 2019.
The topic is startup entrepreneur.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Reaching your goal, then setting another
- Resilience: vital to the entrepreneur
- Committing to your idea
- Psychology: the main barrier to success
- Understanding that it's okay to fail
- Enjoy the challenge – or go do something else
Jump in!
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I'm MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I'm proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.
To start? I'd like to give you a great piece of advice you can use in your life and trading journey… cut your losses! You will find much more about that philosophy here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/trend/
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive. |
| 0:10.9 | Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, best-selling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings. |
| 0:20.7 | I am your host, Michael Covel. |
| 0:23.1 | Not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:26.3 | That's my passion. |
| 0:30.7 | Why do so many startups fail? |
| 0:33.3 | Why do entrepreneurs fail? |
| 0:36.1 | My guest today has some great insights. |
| 0:38.4 | Gabriel Weinberg. |
| 0:40.5 | Today we are discussing his philosophy and his book title of the same name. |
| 0:45.3 | Traction. |
| 0:47.4 | Gabriel is the founder and CEO of Duck Duck Go, an alternative search engine. |
| 0:51.7 | Yeah, that sounds pretty crazy in today's age to compete with Google. |
| 0:56.9 | But Gabriel's a great story. |
| 0:59.4 | It is for every entrepreneur. |
| 1:02.0 | The would-be entrepreneur or the already established entrepreneur. |
| 1:07.3 | This conversation will get you thinking about so many different issues. |
| 1:12.8 | Now, in the beginning, I must say, there is one aspect where you might say to yourself, |
| 1:17.0 | I don't know what these two guys are talking about. |
| 1:19.3 | They're talking about 19 principles. |
| 1:22.2 | These 19 principles, these 19 issues are paramount to Gabriel's traction philosophy. |
| 1:31.4 | We can only discuss a few of them in the podcast, but I think you'll get the point. |
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