How This Early Amazon Employee Became The Billion Dollar Co-Founder Of Redfin | Dave Selinger
Millionaire Mindcast
Matt Aitchison
4.8 • 721 Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Millionaire Mindcast, we are joined by a wonderful guest, Dave Selinger who shares his amazing story of entrepreneurship, creating value with time, his Amazon journey, finding life balance, creating a life that’s prioritizing family, and designing a successful business that is worth a billion dollars!
Dave Selinger is a husband, father, tech entrepreneur, an advisor at Opus 12 Inc., and Notarize, Inc., co-founder of Silicon Climate, and co-founder/CEO at Deep Sentinel, a pioneer in AI-based home protection. Its intelligent crime prevention transforms home security from false alarms and ineffective after-the-fact crime alerts to real-time crime prediction and prevention. This man is also the founder of a number of successful and unsuccessful start-ups, including Redfin and RichRelevance.
Being an early Amazon employee, work was Dave’s top priority. It’s a blessing that he recognizes that he needs to have his family to come first. Thus, he finds that framework to make a transition of career path. Finding balance is what he is really into. The quality of time spent with his family is what matters more for him. By exiting Amazon, Dave is now living a lifestyle that works hard, plays hard, and loves hard every day. Being always unsatisfied with things around him, this man is always looking for things that make it better!
Some Questions I Ask:
- Who is Dave Sellinger?
- What’s the catalyst on shifting from prioritizing work to family as your long-term priority?
- How does this entrepreneurial journey begin for you?
- What was your big first entrepreneurial endeavor where you realized that you can scale some opportunities in the marketplace?
- When did you exit Amazon and what was your thought process for the next part of your journey?
- How did you decide to partner and what does that partnership look like?
- What was the greatest lesson that you took away as it led into what is now a Deep Sentinel?
In This Episode, You Will Learn:
- Valuing work in modeling kids
- Creating value with your time
- How Dave got into Amazon space
- Why servant leadership is a weak power possession
- The product of Deep Sentinel
Quotes:
“The structure of partnerships, and the structure of corporations is fundamental to success.”
“If you do something that matters that matters to you, matters to your family, matters to your heart, matters to your soul, that’s what gets you to the other side of that stuff.”
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| 0:00.0 | I will build a team and we'll do nights and weekends and see where we end up. |
| 0:04.1 | And fast forward, eight months, we had built the first Redfin website. |
| 0:08.8 | It was ridiculous. |
| 0:10.3 | It was so amazing. |
| 0:11.6 | It was one of the fastest, if not the fastest consumer launch with no marketing budget, |
| 0:18.3 | I think in the history of the internet today. |
| 0:20.7 | Wow. |
| 0:21.6 | And we went from zero traffic to 400,000 visitors on the very first day. |
| 0:26.6 | Well, I'm excited to welcome to the show, Dave Sellinger. How are you doing, brother? |
| 0:40.5 | I'm doing well. Thank you for having me. |
| 0:42.3 | Man, I know you and I just had a really impactful conversation that we're going to be |
| 0:47.9 | touching on a little bit later in the show. It's always inspiring to me to get around people who |
| 0:52.4 | have just massive success in business. |
| 0:55.7 | And as badass as you think they are in the business world and the quote unquote success world, |
| 0:59.6 | when you see behind the curtain of how they live their life just as purposeful and intentionally |
| 1:04.0 | in the other gardens that are equally as important as they do in their business, that, |
| 1:12.4 | that stuff always gets me really excited. So I know our listeners are going to really get some |
| 1:15.5 | massive value from today's show. For those that don't know, who is Dave? What do you say to them |
| 1:20.9 | about the massive track record of success, but this journey that you've found yourself on over the course of the last |
| 1:29.2 | few decades. You know, I mean, it's a little cliche. If you look at, I think it's my Twitter |
| 1:34.2 | handle, right, it says husband, dad, and also these other things in my career. I'm the co-founder |
| 1:42.8 | at Redfin early Amazon employee and currently the founder and CEO |
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