The Journey Behind Building His First Billion Dollar Business | David Perry
Millionaire Mindcast
Matt Aitchison
4.4 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Today, we have an incredible guest, David Perry who shares his entrepreneurial journey and insights around the paradigm of building a retail and e-commerce business, collaborative commerce, building rapport and networks, tech and videogame industry, finding the right people for your team, and how to grow your business to attain the maximum revenue!
David Perry is one of the best-known video game industry veterans, with multiple #1 hits and the Develop - Development Legend award, a keynote speaker, and CEO & Co-Founder - eCommerce Network Carro, a platform that is promoting a collaboration between brands, connecting online retailers, and diversify their product offerings. It offers a distinctive, risk-free technique for inventory expansion and is paving the way for the future of e-commerce with a thriving network that has over 28,000 installed brands and a catalog of more than one million products.
Earlier to Carro, Perry's last company Gaikai was acquired by Sony PlayStation to take the lead in cloud-based video game streaming in the future that is called PlayStation Now. Prior to that, he was the Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer of Acclaim Entertainment, helping introduce "free-to-play" gaming to the Western markets. Disney acquired Acclaim. He also created the video game production studio Shiny Entertainment, which was later bought by Interplay for the rights to the Earthworm Jim, and Atari for Matrix game franchises, respectively.
David is passionate in making video games and building technology. He always thinking about the future of video game industry that everything he makes in his life is digital. He thought that although money didn't actually alter him as a person, it did alter the way he used it to advance and broaden his goal, interests, and passions!
Some Questions I Ask:
Where did this entrepreneurial journey start for you, David?
How did you go through that decision-making to pursue something different outside of an area that you already have successful track record in?
As you had the exit of your company, how that changed your life?
How have you protected your money or grown it as a creator not an investor?
What is your vision for Carro in?
What’s the value of a business owner and influencer or anyone who wants to have an e-commerce store to get on to your platform?
Where you guys are at now, and what do you focus next to bring that vision to life?
In This Episode, You Will Learn:
Tricks in building rapport and networks.
The paradigm of building a business through retail and e-commerce.
How to find the best people in the world to collaborate with.
Why increasing your average value as business owner is fundamental to your existence.
How to possibly get a maximum revenue.
Quotes:
“The more you can learn about different things, the more rapport that will give you with people you meet along the way.”
“It’s not about the past, it’s about the future.”
“When you put those glasses on, there’s a million possibilities of businesses.”
“There’s a retailer and a supplier, and you can be both.”
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's funny because the thing also with money is you get distracted because you start thinking you're an investor and I've wasted so much time trying to be an investor. |
| 0:07.3 | I'm terrible at it. |
| 0:08.2 | It's not a good thing because I don't have the time to really steady businesses and follow every move and I don't have time. |
| 0:14.0 | So you realize a lot of the decisions you're making aren't good decisions. So what you have to be careful with is not getting into this crazy world of |
| 0:21.2 | thinking that because you've made some money now, you can go and be a big shot, right? That's not really |
| 0:25.9 | the best move. Best move is to enjoy your life and grow and use the money to open doors and go places |
| 0:31.9 | and see things that you might not have been able to before. |
| 0:46.3 | Well, welcome to the show, David Perry. |
| 0:46.9 | How we doing, man? |
| 0:47.9 | Great. |
| 0:50.7 | Thanks so much for asking me to join you today. |
| 0:51.6 | Looking forward to this. |
| 0:52.1 | Absolutely. |
| 0:56.5 | I mean, I'm always intrigued by the entrepreneurial journey, |
| 0:59.7 | knowing that there's so many different paths to pursue, right? |
| 1:01.6 | And it's obviously full of peaks and valleys. You've had some pretty high peaks with the sale of your first business to Atari for 50 million, |
| 1:10.0 | the next to Sony for 400 million. I know a lot of, |
| 1:12.9 | those price tags get people excited, right? So not too many people breathe at that type of |
| 1:19.0 | rare air in business. And I know there's some great stories and wisdom you can share from that |
| 1:24.6 | perspective. But before we dig in on some of that and what you're up to today, |
| 1:29.6 | where did this entrepreneurial journey start for you, David? |
| 1:34.1 | I'm actually originally from Northern Ireland. |
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