The Secrets to Scaling a Business with Evan Goldberg: An EOFire Classic from 2021
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
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🗓️ 8 November 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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From the archive: This episode was originally recorded and published in 2021. Our interviews on Entrepreneurs On Fire are meant to be evergreen, and we do our best to confirm that all offers and URL's in these archive episodes are still relevant.
Evan Goldberg is responsible for product strategy and development at Oracle NetSuite Global Business Unit. Prior to Oracle's acquisition of NetSuite, Goldberg was CTO and Chairman of the NetSuite board. Before co-founding NetSuite in 1998, Goldberg spent eight years at Oracle Corporation, where he served as a vice president. He was involved in a variety of projects, all focused on making powerful database technology more accessible to users. When he left Oracle, he started mBED Software and built groundbreaking website technology. Goldberg holds a B.A. Summa Cum Laude in Applied Mathematics from Harvard College.
Top 3 Value Bombs
1. Stay true to your vision. Stay focused up to the degree that you can.
2. People are settling into new routines. That's were a lot of opportunities live right now that haven't been served by companies in the past.
3. For every business, go back to your customers and see how their life has changed since the pandemic came.
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| 0:00.0 | Who's ready to rock today, Fire Nation. JLD here and welcome to entrepreneurs on fire. |
| 0:07.8 | Brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network, the audio destination for business professionals with great shows like the Ops Authority. |
| 0:15.0 | Today we're pulling a classic episode from the archives and we'll be breaking down the secrets to scaling a business. |
| 0:21.5 | To drop these value bombs, I brought to Evan Goldberg and the EO Fire Studios. Evan is responsible for product strategy |
| 0:26.3 | and development at Oracle NetSuite global business units. And Fire Nation, today we talk about a lot |
| 0:32.3 | of great stuff, how to stay true to your vision, stay focused up to the degree that you can, |
| 0:36.7 | how people are settling into new |
| 0:38.1 | routines. There's a lot of opportunities live right now that haven't been served by companies in |
| 0:42.8 | the past. Find that niche fire nation, expose it, utilize it. And oh, so much more. And a big |
| 0:48.6 | thing for sponsoring today's episode goes to Evan and our sponsors. DTC pod hosted by Ramon Barrios and Blaine Bolus, is brought to you by the HubSpot |
| 0:58.3 | Podcast Network, the audio destination for business professionals. DTC Pod is a podcast about |
| 1:03.4 | all things direct to consumer. Ramone and Blaine cover everything from starting, growing, |
| 1:08.0 | and optimizing e-commerce stores in DTC brands. If you're interested in the |
| 1:11.5 | stories behind your favorite consumer brands, this podcast is for you. One recent episode on |
| 1:16.5 | how the best brands are built is a must listen. Listen to DTC pod wherever you get your |
| 1:21.8 | podcasts. Evan, say what's up to Fire Nation and share something that you believe about becoming successful that most people disagree with. |
| 1:35.4 | You know, I don't know if most people disagree with this, but I think the conventional wisdom is that when you're making a product or a service, that you pretty much entirely go from talking to those customers |
| 1:47.8 | and finding out what problems they want to solve and just thinking sort of in a linear fashion |
| 1:54.0 | about what the best way is to solve them. And, you know, I think that you'll a lot of you know your competitors will come up with very |
| 2:04.7 | similar answers and so if you follow that sort of conventional route I think you end up doing to a |
| 2:12.1 | large degree whatever what else is doing now I'm not going to minimize the importance of user |
| 2:15.8 | testing and of of course, |
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