The Power Of Knowing Your Worth
The Playbook With David Meltzer
David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com
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🗓️ 19 April 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to office hours. I'm David Meltzer here at the Sirius XM Studios live in Las Vegas at the |
| 0:05.3 | Wind Hotel and I'm blessed. And if you didn't realize I'm blessed, just look at the three |
| 0:09.5 | co-hosts that I have here today. The incredible Allie. Hello. Robert. Good to see you. |
| 0:16.4 | And the rookie of the year, Nick of Wom, the Well-O-O-N-Machine, the anchor man, makes me proud. |
| 0:21.8 | But I'm proud not only of you three joining us today on office hours, this is one of my |
| 0:26.7 | favorite entrepreneurs of all time. |
| 0:29.1 | And the reason Cindy Eckert is one of my favorite entrepreneurs of all time is that |
| 0:33.4 | her life illustrates one of the most valuable lessons of entrepreneurship, which is understanding |
| 0:39.2 | the difference between perceived value and bottom line. |
| 0:43.0 | And Cindy Eckers's story is one of huge success. |
| 0:47.1 | She exited for over a billion dollars. |
| 0:48.8 | And if I'm not mistaken, she actually bought back the company for a dollar. |
| 0:52.9 | That may or may not be true, but I think it is. |
| 0:56.0 | But with her success, came understanding perceived value in bottom line and also giving back. |
| 1:03.7 | And one of the few people I know that has, for the sake of making a lot of money to help a lot of people and she's always having a |
| 1:13.2 | lot of fun usually in pink welcome to office hours Cindy Eckert going on thanks David it's |
| 1:19.3 | so good to be here it's great to see you as always and thank you for such a kind introduction |
| 1:24.2 | well you are one of the greatest introductions that I have gotten in my |
| 1:27.9 | entrepreneurial career. I follow you. I know the team's going to talk about all the great |
| 1:33.2 | exciting things that you have on, but I'm going to stick to my general lesson of being an |
| 1:37.5 | entrepreneur, which is understanding the difference between perceived value and bottom line. And why I say |
| 1:43.3 | that lesson is that Cindy could have exited her company for less than a |
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