Gerard Adams: The Millennial Mentor - 098
Bedros Keuilian Podcast Show
Bedros Keuilian
5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Thought leader, serial entrepreneur, angel investor, philanthropist, and co-founder of Elite Daily is known as the millennial mentor. He was able to turn his passion for storytelling into a $50 million-plus dollar business! A company he literally started out sheer hustle and determination! Watch or listen to this Inside Look now to hear all the ups and downs of his journey as the co-founder of this gigantic news platform, and why there is no reason you can’t be in the same position he was!
“Every odd was stacked against you”
“Success leaves clues”
- Bedros Keuilian
Here’s what you’ll discover:
1:20 - How Gerard’s passion for storytelling helped leverage him into success
4:30 - Who Gerard got his self-awareness from - and how it helped him keep his head on his shoulders
8:50 - What it took for Gerard and Elite Daily to become what they are today
17:22 - What a good pitch consists of - and how it can make you more money
31:12 - What to do when your “business identity” is taken away from you
“No ones truly paying attention to the economy”
“Entrepreneurship is like going to war”
“There is no plan B”
“You have the ability to take ownership of your life”
“Simplify to amplify”
-Gerard Adams
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friends welcome to another episode of the Empire show. This is an inside look into a young man who is driven, who is cause-based, impact-based, and has been the co-founder of Elite Daily |
| 0:18.1 | where they built up this amazing company and exited. He's not only a prolific entrepreneur, but he's also using |
| 0:27.6 | entrepreneurship as a form of giving back and a form of art. Ladies and |
| 0:31.5 | gentlemen, Mr. Gerard Adams, welcome to the show. |
| 0:34.0 | Thank you for having me, Bejos. |
| 0:35.4 | Yes, sir. |
| 0:36.4 | It's a great opportunity for us to be able to look into your life because you're |
| 0:40.0 | 34 years old. |
| 0:41.3 | I'm 44, so I've got a decade on you and I've got such massive |
| 0:44.5 | respect for millennials who create a massive wave in the space that you're in because I |
| 0:52.0 | believe millennials have a bad rap and I know this to be a fact |
| 0:55.0 | because we're one of the fastest-scoring franchises and we're hitting Inklist and entrepreneur |
| 0:58.8 | or 500 fast-scoring lists and it's like 80% millennials that run my company. |
| 1:03.0 | And so the millennials are not the problem. |
| 1:05.0 | The problem is how we approach them, work with them, deal with them, |
| 1:08.0 | because it's a completely different generation. |
| 1:10.0 | And so to see what you've done is huge |
| 1:12.0 | and I wanted to really get an inside look in your life and business. |
| 1:15.0 | So from what I understand you as the economy crashed you created Elite Daily. What elite daily yeah well you know to be honest when we |
| 1:28.1 | first started it I was extremely naive like I did not know how we were going to build it to become what it had become, |
| 1:36.1 | but I had a passion for storytelling and at the time when the economy crashed I had lost |
| 1:42.0 | millions of dollars that I had saved up previously from |
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