Lee LeFever of CommonCraft.com
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2013
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Lee LeFever is the founder of Common Craft and author of The Art of Explanation. In 2007 he saw an opportunity to explain technology using short and simple animated videos. Since then his company inspired the explainer video industry, earned over 50 million online views and is now focused on helping others become better explainers.
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| 0:00.0 | entrepreneur on fire episode 172 welcome to entrepreneur on fire dot com where |
| 0:07.6 | remarkable entrepreneurs share their inspiring story let their journey illuminate |
| 0:12.9 | your path to success and now you are host John Dumas fire nation let's join |
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| 0:36.1 | podcast dot com slash fire that's audible podcast dot com slash fire okay fire |
| 0:46.3 | nation let's get started I am simply thrilled to introduce my guest today Lee |
| 0:51.4 | LaFever Lee are you prepared to ignite let's do it John all right Lee is a |
| 0:57.9 | founder of comic craft dot com an author of the art of explanation in 2007 he |
| 1:04.4 | saw an opportunity to explain technology using short and simple animated |
| 1:08.5 | videos since then his company inspired the explainer video industry earned |
| 1:13.9 | over 50 million online views and is now focused on helping others become |
| 1:18.7 | better explainers given fire nation a little overview Lee but why don't you |
| 1:23.0 | take a minute tell us about you personally we want to get to know you and then |
| 1:26.9 | take another minute and tell us about your business sure I live in Seattle |
| 1:32.1 | Washington with my wife Sachi from originally from North Carolina and moved to |
| 1:38.6 | Seattle in 1998 and founded common craft about 10 years ago this year which I |
| 1:45.5 | really can't hardly believe and I have always had an interest in communication |
| 1:51.8 | and technology and just in the past you know five years or so well maybe a |
| 1:57.5 | little bit longer than that have we really been fascinated with this idea of |
| 2:01.6 | explanation and that's what kind of drives everything that we do right now love |
| 2:06.4 | that and we're definitely going to be delving more to that later in the interview |
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