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The Playbook With David Meltzer

The Only Thing You Should Focus on in Business | Interview With Ashkan Karbasfrooshan, Founder & CEO, WatchMojo

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Ashkan Karbasfrooshan, Founder and CEO of WatchMojo, sits down to discuss how a strong desire to solve problems constructively taught him to create value for others, as well as how the vision and mission of WatchMojo have evolved over the years. Karbasfrooshan and host of #ThePlaybook, David Meltzer, chat about a wide range of topics including how young entrepreneurs can find (and leverage) their competitive advantages, why WatchMojo uses lists in order to educate its audience, and strategies for incorporating philanthropy into your business. The pair also talk about how to create a personal “sniff test” for the content you create. Tweet me your takeaway from today’s episode @davidmeltzer Email Me! [email protected] Sign up for my Free Weekly Training https://free.dmeltzer.com/friday-training-1 Text Me! (949) 298-2905 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

how can I channel this position that I have to create value? And then if I create value,

0:07.2

I'm not worried. I will be able to derive value back for myself and my family, so to speak.

0:13.3

This is the playbook. I have an incredible entrepreneur, the CEO of Watch Mojo,

0:19.3

Askin, Carb Bass Frucian. And I said it as slow as I could. It's Askin. Welcome to the playbook.

0:27.3

Thank you for having me. Thank you so much. Well, you know, you have been what I call

0:33.0

a serial entrepreneur. Someone who has an open mind and open heart and an open hands

0:38.7

and utilizing that skill, those and knowledge that you've required. But also, there's a certain

0:45.7

desire when you're building a business to do well, but also to do good. When did you make this

0:54.0

mindset shift that you could not only do good because it seems in your history, you've always

0:58.6

wanted to do good, but also do well to do good. Great question. I mean, look, it starts off with,

1:05.6

like, you have to accept that human beings were driven by insecurities. You know, there are good

1:09.6

insecurities and bad insecurities. And I think, you know, I concern myself very lucky. I wouldn't

1:14.9

call myself a self-made, you know, person. There's a lot of shoulders we all stand on. But I definitely

1:20.5

admit that, you know, if your name is Ashcan Carbysfrucian growing up in North America, I'm from

1:26.0

Montreal, Canada, studying media and finance, you are a bit of an outsider. You know, there's just

1:31.7

you have to understand that. You're a bit of an underdog or a bit of an outsider. Your name is

1:35.2

different. You might look different. And we are all different and we're all kind of outsiders

1:39.4

in one way or another. And so admittedly, you want to be accepted. You want to be kind of

1:46.9

sitting at the big person's big voice table. But my main thing was that I wanted to help.

1:53.5

I wanted to add value. I always want to be part of the solution. I always felt whatever problems

1:59.2

were, you know, going on between people, between groups, I realized I was drawn to try to solve

2:05.6

those problems. You know, I call them my King Solomon complex. You know, I legitimately want to

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