MFM Mini - Shaan's 15 Minutes with the CEO of Alibaba

My First Million

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Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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0:00.0	All right, QuickBag to tell you about another podcast that we're interested in right now.
0:04.4	Hosepot just launched a Shark Tank rewatch podcast called Another Bite.
0:08.9	Every week, the host relived the latest and greatest pitches from Shark Tank, from Squatty
0:13.1	Potty, to the Mention a Bench, to Ring Doorbell, and they break down why these pitches were
0:18.6	winners or losers, and each company's go-to-market strategy, branding, pricing, valuation, everything.
0:24.2	Basically, all the things you want to know about how to survive the tank and scale your
0:28.4	company on your own.
0:29.6	If you want to give it a listen, you can find another bite on whatever podcast I've
0:32.9	been listening to, like Apple or Spotify, or whatever you're using right now.
0:36.2	All right, back to the show.
0:38.2	When I was, I don't know, 21, I got this really cool opportunity to go on an all-expense
0:43.6	paid trip to China, courtesy of Alibaba.
0:46.9	And Alibaba at the time wasn't as well known as it is today.
0:50.3	Today it's pretty well known.
0:51.3	It's publicly with companies, you have $40 billion plus company, something like that.
0:56.5	And so the question is, what would you do if you had 15 minutes talking to the CEO of
1:00.7	Alibaba?
1:01.7	Because I had 15 minutes, and I choked.
1:04.6	All I could muster up was, you know, what's the key to success in business?
1:12.3	What are my worst questions, but whatever.
1:14.6	I shot my shot.
1:15.6	Everyone else is too scared to speak.
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