Ep. 395: Rob Walling Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2015
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Rob Walling. Rob may not be a trader, but he is a serial entrepreneur. And trading at its heart, after all, is an entrepreneurial activity. He is an author, podcaster, and angel investor. He is the author of Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup, which was published in 2010. Walling is the founder of email marketing software Drip that was acquired in a life-changing exit by Leadpages in July 2016.
The topic is serial entrepreneur.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Rob Walling's "Stair-Step Approach"
- Growth hackers
- The act of creating
- Focusing on the "Unicorn" rather than reality
- Filtering your information
- Skin deep information
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 Cove, not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:26.3 | That's my passion. |
| 0:32.2 | Trading at its heart is an entrepreneurial activity. |
| 0:37.2 | All traders are entrepreneurs. |
| 0:40.1 | You must think like an entrepreneur to get ahead. |
| 0:44.0 | It's foundational. |
| 0:46.8 | My guest today is not a trader, but he is a serial entrepreneur. |
| 0:52.3 | Rob Walling has started multiple businesses. |
| 0:55.1 | He comes from a programming background, and he has seen many, many, many successes along |
| 1:00.7 | the way. |
| 1:02.2 | His insights are pragmatic. |
| 1:04.5 | He breaks it down to the nitty-gritty. |
| 1:07.5 | If you can't learn something from Rob Walling to help you make more money, well, you are most |
| 1:13.5 | likely comatose. |
| 1:15.1 | You've probably had a frontal lobotomy already. |
| 1:17.7 | You're no longer here. |
| 1:20.4 | So don't pay attention. |
| 1:22.4 | But for those of you that want to get ahead, for those of you that want some extra insights |
| 1:27.2 | along your |
| 1:27.9 | entrepreneurial journey, Rob Walling is worth listening to. I hope you enjoy this conversation. |
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