Skip the Line, Enter Through the Alley, and Sneak in Through the Kitchen! | Alex Banayan

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🗓️ 12 January 2023

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Alex Banayan's story would have made a perfect chapter in Skip the Line: A college student hacks his way onto a game show, uses his wit to win the showcase, sells the prizes, and uses the proceeds to fund his business ambitions! Alex's bestselling book "The Third Door" takes readers on an unprecedented adventure—from hacking Warren Buffett’s shareholders' meeting to chasing Larry King through a grocery store to celebrating in a nightclub with Lady Gaga—as Alex Banayan travels from icon to icon, decoding their success.

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0:00.0	What is the third door and how can you take advantage of it?
0:11.3	My guest Alex Bonayin will describe better than me, but think of getting into a nightclub.
0:16.8	The first door is all the people who are lined up hoping to get in.
0:20.8	The second door is for the VIP celebrities.
0:23.2	People have already made it and they just walk right in.
0:25.6	The third door is the door where you use all your creative out of the box thinking, being
0:32.3	entrepreneurial and you figure out a new unique way to get to your goal.
0:38.2	Alex has certainly had that adventure.
0:40.4	He set himself a mission when he was just 18 years old to interview many amazing successful
0:46.0	people in life.
0:47.0	People like Bill Gates.
0:48.0	He wanted to interview Warren Buffett, Mark Zuckerberg, Lady Gaga, Maya Angelou, Quincy
0:53.7	Jones, and on and on.
0:55.6	This is a story and how he got such amazing interviews and what he learned from them along
1:01.6	the way, particularly this concept of the third door.
1:07.7	This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.
1:12.6	This is the James Altiger show.
1:24.4	We have such a fascinating story and I love the book, The Third Door.
1:28.2	I don't even know where to begin.
1:31.0	Price is right.
1:32.0	First you hack the price is right and then you got started interviewing.
1:36.0	You have interviewed some of the most amazing people on the planet and it's interesting
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