John Joseph IV: Identify a problem, execute a solution
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2014
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
John is the Founder and CEO of Global Grad, which helps colleges identify students at risk of dropping out in real time. He completed a venture-backed accelerator program and has presented around the country at Fortune 500 companies, colleges, high schools, and other venues.
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| 0:50.6 | Boom! Shake the room fire nation, Johnny Doomus here, and I am fired up. |
| 0:56.8 | To bring you our feature guest today, John Joseph IV. John, are you prepared to ignite? |
| 1:04.4 | Ready to go? Yes. John is a founder and CEO of Global Grad, which helps colleges identify |
| 1:11.2 | students at risk of dropping out in real time. He completed a venture backed accelerator program, |
| 1:17.5 | and has presented around the country at Fortune 500 companies, colleges, high schools, and other |
| 1:23.5 | venues. John, I've given fire nation just a little insight, so take a minute and tell us about |
| 1:29.0 | you personally, and then expound upon the biz. Absolutely, and John, I want to thank you for having |
| 1:34.0 | me on and just congratulate you for the amazing impact you're having. It inspires me, so it's a |
| 1:40.5 | privilege to be on. I really appreciate that. Thanks, John. I grew up in a grocery store, John, |
| 1:46.4 | in North Alabama. Every day we stocked shelves, we worked with people, we served people, and that's |
| 1:53.3 | where I learned about business. The fundamental core concept for me was that business is all about |
| 2:00.0 | serving others. And ironically, some of the failures and mistakes I'll talk about occurred when |
| 2:07.0 | I was focused more on what I was hoping to happen as opposed to what people were telling me they |
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