From Near Bankruptcy to 45 Countries Worldwide - Scaling the Unscalable with Joe De Sena: From the 2020 archive
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! |
| 0:02.6 | Shake the room, Fire Nation! |
| 0:04.2 | JLD herein! |
| 0:05.2 | Welcome to Entrepreneurs on Fire, brought to you by the Hubsbot Podcast Network with great |
| 0:09.0 | shows like Ducktap Marketing. |
| 0:10.6 | Today we're pulling a timeless EO Fire episode from the Archives so the giveaway may not |
| 0:15.1 | be active and we'll be breaking down from near bankruptcy to 45 countries worldwide. |
| 0:19.8 | We're talking scaling the unscalable with Joe DeSena. |
| 0:22.5 | Joe is the founder and CEO of Spartan, the world's largest obstacle race in endurance |
| 0:27.1 | brands and has demonstrated his entrepreneurial drive since his preteens. |
| 0:30.6 | After building a multi-million dollar pool in construction business in college and creating |
| 0:34.3 | a Wall Street trading firm, DeSena set his sights on ripping a hundred million people |
| 0:38.3 | off their couches by creating the Spartan lifestyle. |
| 0:40.9 | And today, a foundation will talk about how the fact of the matter is if you're not progressing, |
| 0:45.4 | you're dying. |
| 0:46.4 | And the only thing that matters in starting a business is sales and making sure that your |
| 0:49.6 | customers will love your service or product, then they will recommend it to their friends |
| 0:54.4 | and so much more. |
| 0:55.4 | And a big thank you for sponsoring today's episode goes to Joe and ours sponsors. |
| 1:00.3 | Is this your year? |
| 1:01.9 | Visit thrivetimeshow.com to see testimonials of how clay clerks business coaching has helped |
| 1:06.5 | over 2000 entrepreneurs to dramatically increase profitability. |
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