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Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People

Randy Nonnenberg: Founder of Bring a Trailer

Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People

Guy Kawasaki

Documentary, Society And Culture, Management, Evangelism, Innovation, Remarkable People, Education, Society & Culture, Apple, Silicon Valley, Writing, Technology, Marketing, Guy Kawasaki, Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement, Pitching, Social Media, Business, Macintosh, Speaking

4.6667 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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0:00.0

In my years of entrepreneurship, I've seen countless startups. And here's the truth.

0:07.3

Smart spending drives growth, which is something Brex has championed. Brex isn't just a corporate credit

0:14.0

card. It's a strategic tool to help your company achieve peak performance. Corporate cards, banking, expense management, all integrated

0:24.1

on an AI-powered platform that turns every dollar into opportunity. In fact, 30,000 companies

0:32.9

are trusting Brex to help them win. Go to brex.com slash grow to learn more.

0:44.4

I'm Guy Kawasaki and this is remarkable people. This episode's remarkable guest is Randy Nonenberg. He is responsible

0:57.5

for thousands of hours of lost productivity because he is the co-founder of Bring a Trailer. This is a website

1:05.0

for buying and selling collectible cars. He's been at it for 10 years. Before that, he worked for BMW. He has a PS degree in mechanical

1:14.3

engineering from Stanford and an MBA from UC Berkeley. In 2019, Bring a trailer had 100,000

1:21.7

registered bidders, 11,000 listings, and 2 million monthly visitors. It currently has 300 listings per week.

1:29.3

Malcolm Gladwell is among the people that loses hours of productivity on the site.

1:34.3

Bring a trailer started as a hobby for Randy and has grown to be an existential threat to traditional car auctions.

1:41.3

You may not be into cars, but Randy's story is still interesting because it is one

1:46.0

data point that pursuing your passion can work. Also, listen to his ideas about catalyzing valuable

1:53.3

public comments on a site, fostering trust so that someone would spend hundreds of thousands

1:58.6

of dollars on a car without seeing it in person

2:01.4

and competing with traditional analog forms of businesses.

2:06.0

There's a lot any business owner can learn from Randy.

2:09.7

Remarkable People is now brought to you by Remarkable, the Paper Tablet Company.

2:14.8

Yes, you've got that right.

2:16.5

The Remarkable People podcast is sponsored by the

2:20.2

Remarkable Paper Tablet Company. Here are seven reasons why I like my remarkable paper tablet. First,

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