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🗓️ 11 September 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Matthew Pohlson’s dreams of building a company were almost cut short by a near-death experience. The CEO and co-founder of Omaze reveals how it changed his mindset, and unlocked new ways to scale his business.
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| 0:00.0 | Scaling a business in the US can feel like a maze. Each state has its own payroll, benefits, and compliance rules, pulling your focus away from growth, which is why founders use Deal. |
| 0:11.4 | Deal is the professional employer organization, or a PEO, that gives you a dedicated HR expert, plus Fortune 500 level benefits for your team. |
| 0:20.3 | The National Association of PEOs says |
| 0:23.1 | businesses can grow twice as fast if they use one. So if you're scaling, make it simple with deal. |
| 0:29.4 | Go to D-EEL.com slash MOS and get up to three months free. |
| 0:35.0 | Your company's data is everywhere, in systems, in silos, and across teams. |
| 0:40.2 | But if your AI can't reach it, then that data isn't working for you. |
| 0:44.3 | Every business has unique data, but really makes a difference is how you use it. |
| 0:48.7 | IBM helps your AI access your data wherever it lives to change how you do business. |
| 0:54.7 | Let's create smarter business, IBM. |
| 1:01.0 | I used to make bold choices, but they were often driven by fear. |
| 1:05.4 | Like fear of not being enough, fear of not comparing well to my friends, |
| 1:10.0 | fear to never being loved. |
| 1:13.2 | And I really let that drive me. |
| 1:16.1 | And, you know, you realize that nothing is as bad as the fear of the thing. |
| 1:23.6 | A near-death experience forced Ome's founder and CEO Matthew Poulson to face his greatest fears. |
| 1:31.5 | It also unlocked new ways of seeing the world. |
| 1:35.2 | This mindset shift fueled the growth of his unusual business model. |
| 1:40.9 | The people that are maybe most in the news, they may be leading from places of fear or places of greed. |
| 1:47.2 | And so we tend to start to think that that's the reality. |
| 1:50.3 | But that's just getting clickbait. |
| 1:52.3 | We know our algorithms are designed to spread that kind of stuff. |
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