Jim Estill: CEO of Danby Appliances and ShipperBee | #ThePlaybook 255

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

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🗓️ 27 June 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Jim Estill, CEO of Danby Appliances and ShipperBee, talks about how he balances his roles as a CEO and a serial entrepreneur, as well as how he’s been able to build a “side hustle” into a multi-million-dollar business. Estill and host of #ThePlaybook, David Meltzer, share some of their best tips for creating a “business within a business”, and discuss some of the characteristics that set successful entrepreneurs apart from the rest. The pair discuss why gratitude is a key to happiness, how to let your staff know that you’ve got their back, and the benefits that come from being driven to prove others wrong. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	On this episode of the playbook, I have Jim Estill, CEO of Dan B, appliances and Shipper B,
0:06.5	and we talk about how to create a side hustle and turn it into a multimillion dollar business by failing often, failing fast and
0:14.9	failing cheap.
0:15.9	Join me for all of this and more on The Playbook.
0:19.4	This is Entrepreneurs The Playbook, where each week I bring you some of the greatest athletes, celebrities, and entrepreneurs
0:26.8	to talk about their personal and professional Playbook to success and what made them champions on the field and in the boardroom. I'm your
0:35.7	host David Melzer. This is Dave Melzer with Entrepreneurs and Playbook and I have
0:40.1	CEO Jim Estill here with me and he is CEO of Dan B
0:44.4	appliances and Shipper B.
0:46.7	So I gotta start there because I gotta ask the guys
0:49.4	like, how's he a CEO of two different companies?
0:53.3	Well, Shepard B was a startup that we incubated
0:56.0	at Dan B appliances, but it's in fundamentally
0:58.3	a different business.
0:59.0	Shipper B is a career company.
1:00.9	Dan B appliances is an appliance company.
1:04.0	And I'm an entrepreneur.
1:07.0	Danby is kind of like smokestack and kind of running,
1:10.0	and so I have to start something new.
1:12.0	And not only that I'm an environmentalist and Shipper BC. running and so I have to start something new.
1:12.6	And not only that, I'm an environmentalist
1:14.2	and Shipper B saves 73% of the greenhouse gas
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