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TIP151: Billionaire Jesse Itzler - Business, Branding, Everest & More (Investing Podcast)

The Investor's Podcast (We Study Billionaires) - The Investor’s Podcast Network

Stig Brodersen

Business, Education, Investing

4.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN: A free and very effective approach to acquiring customers. Why the product always comes before branding in business. Why sending hand written letters might change your life. Jesse Itzler’s most surprising business lesson from owning the Atlanta Hawks. How Jesse has changed Preston and Stig’s worst habit.  BOOKS AND RESOURCES Join the exclusive TIP Mastermind Community to engage in meaningful stock investing discussions with Stig, Clay, and the other community members. Join Jesse and Preston in the 29029 Everest challenge. The nutrition book that Jesse recommended: Fit For Life by Harvey Diamond . Preston and Stig’s first interview with Jesse. Jesse’s book, Living with a Seal. Preston and Stig’s discussion of Phil Knight’s book “Shoe Dog”. NEW TO THE SHOW? Check out our We Study Billionaires Starter Packs. Browse through all our episodes (complete with transcripts) here. Try our tool for picking stock winners and managing our portfolios: TIP Finance Tool. 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Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to TI-P.

0:02.8

About a year ago, we had the owner of the Atlanta Hock's basketball team on our show,

0:07.2

Mr. Jesse Itzler.

0:09.2

After airing the episode, we received so much mail from our audience about this episode

0:13.9

that we had to try to bring him back on the show.

0:16.2

The thing about Jesse is he's not only brilliant from a business standpoint, but he's also a

0:20.6

hardcore endurance athlete that has accomplished incredible feats like running 100 miles within

0:25.9

24 hours.

0:27.2

And the last time we had Jesse on the show, he was talking about his experiment to live

0:30.9

with a Navy SEAL for 31 days so that he could learn more about discipline, physical,

0:35.8

and mental stress, and becoming a better version of himself.

0:39.6

But today we're going to explore some other areas of Jesse's life, and that's his business

0:43.8

decisions and his way of thinking.

0:46.5

One of Jesse's biggest creations was a company called Marquis Jet.

0:50.5

Later Jesse sold Marquis Jet to Berkshire Hathaway's NetJets.

0:54.7

During our discussion, we asked him about that entire experience.

0:58.1

How did he raise the money?

0:59.4

How did he get the idea?

1:00.8

What was it like to sell the business and much, much more?

1:03.8

As an additional note, Jesse talks to us about his next big physical challenge, and

1:09.0

during the discussion Jesse presents a bit of a surprise to me personally, which I was

1:13.6

definitely not ready for.

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