The Smart Way To Quit Your Corporate Job with Kevin Lavelle Ep 7
SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Nathan Latka
4.6 • 683 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2016
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Listen to The Top if you want to hear from the worlds TOP entrepreneurs on how much they sold last month, how they are selling it, and what they are selling - 7 days a week in 20 minute interviews! Join the Top Tribe at NathanLatka.com/TheTop
The Top is FOR YOU if you are:
A STUDENT who wants to become the CEO of a $10m company in under 24 months (episode #4)
STUCK in the CORPORATE grind and looking to create a $10k/mo side business so you can quit (episode #7)
An influencer or BLOGGER who wants to make $27k/mo in monthly RECURRING revenue to have the life you want and full CONTROL (episode #1)
The Software as a Service (SaaS) entrepreneur who wants to grow to a $100m+ valuation (episode #14).
Your host, Nathan Latka is a 25 year old software entrepreneur who has driven over $4.5 million in revenue and built a 25 person team as he dropped out of school, raised $2.5million from a Forbes Billionaire, and attracted over 10,000 paying customers from 160+ different countries.
Oprah gets 60 minutes or more to make her guests comfortable to then ask tough questions. Nathan does it all in less than 15 minutes in this daily podcast that's like an audio version of Pat Flynn's monthly income report. Join the Top Tribe at NathanLatka.com/TheTop
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is the top, where I interview entrepreneurs who are number one or number two in their industry in terms of revenue or customer base. |
| 0:09.7 | You'll learn how much revenue they're making, what their marketing funnel looks like, and how many customers they have. |
| 0:16.3 | I'm now at $20,000 per talk. |
| 0:18.6 | Five and six million. |
| 0:19.5 | He is hell bent on global domination. We just broke our 100,000 units sold. Five and six million. He is hell-bent on global domination. |
| 0:21.4 | We just broke our 100,000 unit sold mark. |
| 0:24.2 | And I'm your host, Nathan Latka. |
| 0:30.0 | In the last episode, number six, you saw how best-selling author Bob Berg sold 2.1 million books and went from zero to $20,000 per |
| 0:41.2 | keynote, all in the spirit of being a go-giver. Our guest today is Kevin Lavelle. Now, Kevin was a |
| 0:50.2 | numbers guy working as a strategist in Washington, D.C., when a big idea hit, which we're |
| 0:56.2 | going to talk about in a second. Now, during the hot summer days, he got sick of sweaty |
| 1:00.3 | dress shirts and got the idea for a fashion brand called Mizn and Maine. He sensed raised capital, |
| 1:06.6 | open locations around the country, and kept production in America by veterans. Kevin, |
| 1:12.3 | are you ready to take us to the top? We are ready. Thanks, Nathan. Appreciate it. |
| 1:16.3 | Good, good. Well, first off, anything that you feel like my audience needs to know, |
| 1:20.5 | the Top Tribe needs to know, before we jump into more of your story. |
| 1:24.7 | No, just that I never wanted to be an entrepreneur. I had a great corporate gig and was ready to |
| 1:31.6 | work alongside some of the brightest minds that I could have imagined being able to work with, |
| 1:36.3 | but this idea that I had while I was working as an intern in D.C. for a performance fabric dress shirt |
| 1:41.4 | just stuck with me and I couldn't let go of it. |
| 1:44.3 | So we launched that in July of 2012 |
| 1:46.5 | and here we are, ready to take on the world. |
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