From Near Bankruptcy to 45 Countries Worldwide - Scaling the Unscalable with Joe De Sena: An EOFire Classic from 2020
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
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🗓️ 15 April 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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From the archive: This episode was originally recorded and published in 2020. Our interviews on Entrepreneurs On Fire are meant to be evergreen, and we do our best to confirm that all offers and URL's in these archive episodes are still relevant.
Joe De Sena is the founder and CEO of Spartan, the world's largest obstacle race and endurance brand and has demonstrated his entrepreneurial drive since his pre-teens. After building a multimillion-dollar pool and construction business in college, and creating a Wall Street trading firm, De Sena set his sights on ripping 100 million people off their couches by creating the Spartan lifestyle.
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| 0:00.0 | Boom Shake the Room Fire Nation, JLD here and welcome to entrepreneurs on fire brought to you by the HubSpot |
| 0:07.8 | Podcast network with great shows like duct tape marketing. Today we're pulling a timeless EOfire episode from the |
| 0:13.4 | archives so the giveaway may not be active and we'll be breaking down from near |
| 0:17.2 | bankruptcy to 45 countries worldwide. We're talking scaling the |
| 0:20.7 | unscalable with Joe DeSena. Joe is the founder and CEO of Spartan, the |
| 0:25.0 | world's largest obstacle race and endurance brands and has demonstrated his entrepreneurial drive |
| 0:29.1 | since his preteens after building a multi-million dollar pool and construction business in college and creating a Wall Street trading firm, |
| 0:35.5 | Descenta set his sights on ripping a hundred million people off their couches by creating the Spartan lifestyle. |
| 0:41.0 | And today a foundation will talk about how the fact of the |
| 0:43.5 | matter is if you're not progressing, you're dying, and the only thing that |
| 0:46.8 | matters in starting a business is sales and making sure that your customers will |
| 0:50.4 | love your service or product, then they will recommend it to their friends and so much more. |
| 0:55.4 | And a big thank you for sponsoring today's episode goes to Joe and our sponsors. |
| 1:00.0 | Is this your year? Visit Thrivetime Show dot com to see testimonials of how Clay Clark's business coaching |
| 1:06.2 | has helped over 2,000 entrepreneurs to dramatically increase profitability. |
| 1:10.0 | It's month to month and less money than an average minimum wage employee. |
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