MI030: Road to Becoming A Successful Entrepreneur with James Altucher (Entrepreneurship Podcast)
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4.6 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to TIP. On today's show, I talk with James Altiture. James is a prolific writer, |
| 0:07.6 | a successful serial entrepreneur, chess master, and venture capitalist. James has a very colorful |
| 0:13.9 | history throughout many facets of the finance industry. He has successfully started and sold various |
| 0:19.5 | companies, and James currently invests in or advises over 30 companies in multiple industries. |
| 0:26.6 | Without further delay, let's jump right into today's episode with James Altiture. |
| 0:32.2 | You're listening to Millennial Investing by the Investors Podcast Network, where your host, Robert Leonard, interview |
| 0:38.9 | successful entrepreneurs, business leaders and investors to help educate and inspire the |
| 0:44.3 | millennial generation. |
| 1:00.8 | James, welcome to Millennial Investing by the Investors Podcast Network. Your background is so interesting and covers many different avenues. Talk to us about your background and how you get to where you are today. |
| 1:07.8 | I think the age of specialization is over, like the days when you would just major in electrical engineering in college and then you become an electrical engineer for the next 40 years and then you retire. |
| 1:23.6 | That's obviously over. |
| 1:24.7 | I think that's been over for a while. |
| 1:26.0 | But I think people now are used to |
| 1:27.7 | switching careers and opportunities and passions very frequently. And so I almost am like, |
| 1:33.9 | for better or for worse, a little bit of a test case than that. Like, I did major in computer |
| 1:38.2 | science. I went to graduate school in computer science. I was a programmer for a while. And then |
| 1:43.5 | I worked for HBO, a television company. I shot a programmer for a while, and then I worked for HBO, a television company. I |
| 1:47.0 | shot a TV pilot. I started a company building websites for entertainment companies. |
| 1:53.0 | I ran a venture capital firm. I ran a hedge fund. I started writing about investing, and I wrote |
| 1:58.9 | many books, and then I started writing about more |
| 2:02.3 | self-help motivational stuff. So what happened was is that after I sold my first company, |
| 2:06.9 | made a lot of money, I went dead broke, then I made money again. I went dead broke. I made |
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