Rich Kleiman on Hustling, Networking, and Launching His Own Business

Token CEO

Lemonada Media

Business, Management

4.2 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Rich Kleiman told us he's embarrassed that he dropped out of college - but his intuition has always led him to major wins in the business world. As Kevin Durant's business partner and the co-founder of Thirty Five Ventures, Kleiman has found huge success in the sports & media space as well as capital investment. He tells Erika how he hustled through the industry to launch his own business. Erika also talks about resignations around Barstool, as well as the "Great Resignation" trend. She sounds off on the Joe Rogan news over at Spotify, gives advice on how to turn a hobby into a business and shares one billionaire's inspirational story for Working Like a Girl. And, as always, Erika answers your questions. (00:02:37) The Great Resignation (00:20:28) Joe Rogan and Spotify (00:28:06) Q&A (00:33:24) Rich Kleiman (01:00:45) Adulting (01:04:38) Work Like A Girl

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0:00.0	Hey, token CEO listeners, you can find every episode on Apple podcasts, Spotify or YouTube.
0:06.9	Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music.
0:11.0	You know, I was on the Mayback Music Group tour buses through like college towns jumping
0:16.0	off to do commercials and, you know, calling my wife with my newborn thinking like,
0:20.4	I see may not believe when I tell her now I'm gonna own my own big,
0:23.8	onto company more like this is an adding up, but it did.
0:30.0	All right, it's Thursday February 3rd. It is 2022, as the show notes like to remind me.
0:36.7	This is episode 201 of the token CEO podcast. I'm Eric and Ardeni. I'm the CEO of Varsville Sports.
0:44.6	We are dedicating this episode to the great or not so great resignation.
0:50.8	So we are on a resignation spree over here at Varsville Sports.
0:55.2	I think it's pretty much true of every company actually was at the WWE.
0:59.4	Last week for their board session, we talked about the great resignation.
1:03.6	I'm so tired of that phrase actually. Then I had this Kerry Bradshaw moment in the middle of the
1:08.0	night last night where I'm like, is it such a great resignation? So Lorenzo, who's on our podcast,
1:14.7	has resigned from us. So, we also have one of our most talented people at the company,
1:23.1	Jen Simon, who runs our production group. She is making a life change and moving to California.
1:30.7	Deirdre has a great phrase that she always likes to remind me about, which is it's not just how
1:36.3	you enter a company that's important, but it's really how you leave a company that matters.
1:42.0	So we're going to talk about, we're going to talk about resigning today.
1:48.0	All right, so before we get into that, we are going to talk about cupcakes because when you are
1:52.0	thinking about your job, leaving your job, your boss leaving your job, someone you depend on leaving
1:57.5	their job, you really need something and it may as well be a cupcake. So what's awesome about
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