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Startups For the Rest of Us

Episode 533: Life Profitability After Two Exits (with Adii Pienaar)

Startups For the Rest of Us

Rob Walling

Entrepreneurship, Management, Business, Marketing

4.9819 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Rob speaks with Adii Pienaar, a multi-time founder with multiple exits under his belt. They discuss life probability and the importance of measuring your entrepreneurial success by the things that matter the most to you and your life. The topics we cover [4:36] What motivated Adii to write the book [10:17] Life probability defined [12:45] Work-life balance is not the solution [29:21] Choosing to go back into the SaaS trenches If you enjoyed this episode, let us know by clicking the link and sharing what you learned. Click here to share your number one takeaway from the episode. If you have questions about starting or scaling a software business that you’d like for us to cover, please submit your question for an upcoming episode. We’d love to hear from you! Subscribe & Review: iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher

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0:00.0

Welcome back to Startup for the rest of us. It's me, your host, Rob Walling. Thanks for joining me

0:05.4

this week. This is episode 533 of the podcast. And today we're talking about life profitability

0:11.2

after two exits with 80 P&R. I give his full bio in a minute, but he is a multi-time founder

0:19.2

with multiple exits under his belt. He has written a book

0:23.4

called Life Profitability, A New Measure of Entrepreneurial Success. He has talked to the talk and walked

0:28.5

the walk. He's been a microcom speaker. He's a tiny seed mentor, and he has a lot of experience

0:34.0

and success under his belt. And today we dig in to, you know, more the personal

0:39.7

side, the life side of building a startup. A lot of what my wife, Sherry Walling, talks about

0:45.5

on her podcast, Zen Founder. It's the startup family life and the balance of those three things.

0:51.1

And in this book, 80, looks a lot at how to make it all work. Before we

0:55.1

dive into that, I wanted to remind you, in case you haven't checked it out, the microconf

0:59.6

podcast. And every week, we either release an episode of microcomf on air, which is our video

1:06.5

live stream show. We release that in audio format, or we do microconf refresh episodes where we go back

1:12.5

to a previous microconf and we take the talk and pull the audio from it. And then I add an intro to it

1:19.1

for context. And we put that out on the feed. And we've had a lot of interest in this show. And if you

1:25.0

haven't checked it out, just go to any podcatcher search for microconf should be your

1:28.8

number one result and it's nice i i subscribe to it myself and it's a fun reminder even the talks that

1:36.4

i saw in person which i guess technically is all of them because i attended all the microcalfs

1:41.2

but even those talks that i saw in person, it's nice to be

1:44.7

reminded and refreshed on the topics and the ideas that are put forth. And it's a pretty low,

1:51.5

it's a low investment because it's audio. And of course, you can always click through in the show

1:55.4

notes and watch the video if you do want to see the visuals. So microconf podcast, if you

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