Trevor Blake: 3 Exits, $600 Million, Zero Employees
Capitalism.com with Ryan Daniel Moran
Capitalism.com
4.8 • 802 Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2020
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Today, I'm joined by Trevor Blake. Trevor's the author of Three Simple Steps, the book I recommend most in 2020. He started his first business at age 43 and has subsequently grown and exited three businesses for a total of $600 million dollars. Now, he's working on business #4. He's done this without ever having a single employee.
We recorded this call for members of the Capitalism Incubator, our high-ticket coaching program for entrepreneurs who are building a million-dollar business in the next 12 months. Normally, calls like this are reserved only for members. But I couldn't resist sharing this with you because he's got such wise advice for brand owners seeking investors - among other gems too numerous to list.
Give it a listen, and let me know what braingasms you have.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh boy, friends. This is the one we've been waiting for. Today, we're going to be chatting with |
| 0:04.5 | Trevor Blake. Trevor is the author of Three Simple Steps, which is my most recommended book of this year. |
| 0:12.2 | He also recently published Secrets to a Successful Startup, which is about starting a business, |
| 0:19.2 | particularly in recessions, which would be a really |
| 0:21.6 | good thing for you to pick up right now. And Trevor and I got together to record a bonus call |
| 0:27.8 | for the capitalism incubator. So occasionally, every couple of weeks, we'll bring in kind of a |
| 0:33.2 | guest person for the capitalism incubator, somebody who has built or built and sold a company. |
| 0:40.1 | And Trevor's story is interesting because he didn't start a company until he was 43. |
| 0:46.0 | He was not an entrepreneur until he was 43 years old. |
| 0:48.0 | And then he had three exits within 10 years valued at $300 million collectively. And he showed up to talk about raising |
| 0:57.9 | money, casting visions, intuition, and a bunch of other amazing stuff. We don't always release |
| 1:05.6 | recordings from the capitalism incubator, but this one is going to change your life if you let it. So I hope you |
| 1:12.9 | enjoy this conversation that the students and I had with Trevor Blake. Enjoy. Welcome, everybody. |
| 1:25.0 | Good to see you guys. Say hi to. You can wave to Trevor. You're all on mute, but you can wave to Trevor Blake. |
| 1:30.0 | Trevor and I are going to wrap for probably 30 minutes or so. And then if you've got a question that you want to bring to the table, go ahead and put it in the chat box. And then I will kind of handpick them based on the topic. So so Trevor I don't think you want to hear me rap |
| 1:44.8 | ryan yeah Trevor welcome to capitalism.com thanks for hanging out with us my pleasure |
| 1:51.0 | looking forward to me too treasurer I've I have recommended your book more than any other book |
| 1:57.0 | this year so I think that somehow makes me an influencer or something because we've |
| 2:04.0 | sold a we've we've told a lot of people specifically about three simple steps. And before I go into |
| 2:10.2 | kind of my series of questions, I just want to make sure that I'm right about this, this fact. |
| 2:14.0 | I have been describing you as someone who had started their first company at 43 |
| 2:18.9 | and then had three subsequent exits that totaled about $300 million within about 10 years. |
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