TMBA491: Breaking Up is Still Hard to Do
Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle
Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen
4.9 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2019
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Dan and Ian have shared a lot of business success stories on this podcast over the years.
We love sharing those stories on this show, but sometimes the tough experiences that entrepreneurs have endured are the ones that we learn from the most.
Freddy Lansky is the co-founder of iChess, which sells chess videos, courses and DVDs online. Recently, Freddy decided to leave that business, choosing to dissolve an eight-year business partnership with one of his closest friends.
On today's episode, Freddy joins us to speak about the origins of iChess, what it felt like to be trapped in a business that was no longer fulfilling to him, and how he and his partner navigated their breakup.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey podcast, listener. |
| 0:05.1 | Even if you are alone in your entrepreneurial journey, know that today, right now in your earbuds, |
| 0:09.7 | you are joined by thousands of entrepreneurs from all around the globe seeking to grow better, |
| 0:14.9 | more profitable, location independent businesses. |
| 0:17.8 | If you'd like to learn more about what we do and download our entire back catalog, check out |
| 0:23.5 | Tropical MBA.com. |
| 0:32.9 | If I had a dollar for everyone who wants to come on this pod and talk to you guys about how |
| 0:38.9 | amazing they are or how they've magically turned their lives around, I would have a lot of |
| 0:45.8 | dollars. And look, I'm all about the success stories, but sometimes it's cool to hear about |
| 0:52.2 | someone who's learning through tough and |
| 0:54.5 | challenging experiences, which is more often what our days today feel like it. So today's |
| 1:00.3 | guest is going to tell you about what it felt like to be trapped in a business that was no |
| 1:04.9 | longer fulfilling to him, how he spiraled to a place where he felt he had to leave a business |
| 1:09.5 | partnership and an old friend and how he did that without a place where he felt he had to leave a business partnership and an old friend |
| 1:10.9 | and how he did that without becoming enemies. And there's more. He's also going to share a little |
| 1:17.0 | bit how he felt like he screwed up his exit negotiations and how you might learn from that. |
| 1:23.1 | If this ain't relatable to you, I don't know what's going to be. Check it out. Let's get into it. |
| 1:28.7 | Today's guest is Freddie Lansky, who's a member of our private community, the DC. He'll |
| 1:34.2 | mention that a few times in today's episode. And he gave an awesome talk at our most recent event |
| 1:39.9 | in Austin to share this story. Today on the pod, we're bringing it to you. |
| 1:44.8 | It all started with him setting up a company called ICHESS with his longtime buddy Will. |
| 1:59.8 | Yeah, you know, we met in high school. We really didn't become close friends until we were in |
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