Episode 402: TMBA402: What’s Your Superpower?
Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle
Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen
4.9 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2017
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
http://www.tropicalmba.com/jasoncohen/ Today's guest is one of the smartest business minds that Dan and Ian have encountered in their travels.
Jason Cohen is the founder of WP Engine, a very successful company that provides managed Wordpress hosting. He is also the author of Dan and Ian's all-time favorite blogs, A Smart Bear.
A few years ago, Jason made the difficult decision to step down from his CEO role at WP Engine, at a time when the company was more successful than ever. Jason recently spoke about this decision at our recent Dynamite Circle event in Austin, and we invited him on the show this week to expand on that talk.
On today's episode, you'll hear Jason share his insights about the struggles of growing at the pace of your company, the angst you can feel after you sell a business, and how he has been able to harness his "superpowers".
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| 0:00.0 | If you hire someone and they're not really strong at the role on day one, you are setting them up to fail. |
| 0:05.7 | Like the status quo is that they won't figure it out and they'll fail. |
| 0:08.7 | And then you've wasted your money in time. |
| 0:10.7 | They've wasted their career. |
| 0:12.2 | That's really bad for everybody. |
| 0:17.2 | Hey, podcast listener. |
| 0:18.7 | Even if you are alone in your entrepreneurial journey, |
| 0:21.2 | know that today, right now in your earbuds, |
| 0:23.3 | you are joined by thousands of entrepreneurs |
| 0:25.5 | from all around the globe seeking to grow better, |
| 0:28.5 | more profitable, location-independent businesses. |
| 0:31.4 | If you'd like to learn more about what we do |
| 0:33.5 | and download our entire back catalog, |
| 0:36.6 | check out tropical MBA.com. |
| 0:45.7 | Ian, last week, when we were talking about changing the brand of our show, we got ridiculed |
| 0:52.7 | because Alexandra said to us, what, you have to like change the side |
| 0:57.2 | on a side of a building or something? Like, what's the big deal about changing your brand guys? |
| 1:01.0 | Well, today's guest would actually have a problem if he changes this brand because he does have |
| 1:05.5 | a sign on the side of a building, which I think goes a long way for credibility in my book. |
| 1:10.3 | Today's guest is Jason Cohn. And for me, |
| 1:14.0 | one of my all-time favorite single author blogs, A Smart Bear, and one of the most thoughtful people, |
| 1:21.3 | both in writing and in person, on the topic of business that I've ever met. I can just say hands down. |
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