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Michael Covel's Trend Following

Ep. 902: Michael Solomon Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Business, Investing

4.6732 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Michael Solomon, the cofounder of 10x Management, the world's first tech talent agency. 10x matches top contract technology experts, designers, and brand innovators with companies ranging from startups to the Fortune 500. Customers include American Express, HSBC, Google, Verizon, Yelp, and more.

The topic is his book Game Changer: How to Be 10x in the Talent Economy.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Music Industry
  • Talent is talent
  • 10x Mindset
  • Millennials and Generation Z
  • Remote Work
  • Flow State of Mind

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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Hope you enjoy my never-ending podcast conversation!

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, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.

0:21.2

I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest.

0:27.4

That's my passion.

0:33.4

It really is becoming a world where if you have the skill, if you have the talent and you've

0:41.6

worked at it much more than the other guy, the other lady, and you really bring extreme

0:49.1

value, you're going to make a hell of a lot more money across your lifetime.

0:55.7

My guest today is Michael Solomon.

0:57.5

He's the co-founder of 10X management, the world's first tech talent agency.

1:03.6

As that probably implies to you, he matches top tech talent with those that need it.

1:11.0

And today we jump into his new book, Game Changer, How to Be 10X in the Talent Economy.

1:18.9

Because as I lay out from the beginning, if you've got it in you, then well, you're probably

1:24.6

already taken care of. But how do you get it? How do you set about a course

1:31.3

for your lifetime to be one of those people that have the chance to be 10x? Without any further

1:39.7

delay, let's jump right into my conversation with Michael Solomon and grab a little of that 10x education.

1:58.3

I have a sneaky suspicion. You have a kind of an eclectic entrepreneurial background. Not a sneaky

2:03.2

suspicion. I kind of know. But I want to know you. Give me an age, a teen age, a moment where

2:12.2

something happened, a pivot, some experience, I don't know, 13, 15, 16, 18, whatever it was.

2:18.8

What was the magic moment?

2:21.0

Maybe it was in your 20s.

2:22.0

I don't know.

2:22.6

What was the moment where things changed and you were not just a desk jockey sitting

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