Why You Should Fall In Love With The PROBLEM Not The Solution, With Uri Levine Co-Founder Of Waze Episode 291

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan

Heather Monahan

Entrepreneurship, Education, Business, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 31 January 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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In This Episode You Will Learn About: The key to winning in any meeting and *spoiler alert* it happens in the first 10 seconds... Why you must focus on the problem, not the solution Knowing when, where, and how to take on risk The secrets to becoming successful in business The most important behaviors of successful entrepreneurs Resources: Website: urilevine.com Read Fall In Love With The Problem Not The Solution Email: [email protected] LinkedIn: @Uri Levine Youtube: @urilevine5745 Facebook: @Fall In Love With The Problem Not The Solution Twitter: @UriLevine1 Overcome Your Villains is Available NOW! Order here: https://overcomeyourvillains.com If you haven't yet, get my first book Confidence Creator Show Notes: Are you willing to take a risk if it means reaching your dreams? Giving up was simply NOT an option for successful entrepreneur Uri Levine when he launched the worldwide navigation app, Waze, which now has over 700,000 million users around the globe. If you don’t allow anyone to judge your ideas, you can explore and develop new skills that may change your life! Plus, success doesn’t happen overnight, so you have to remember to ENJOY the journey! Uri will share how to make the hardest decisions you’ll face, and why sometimes in order to succeed, you need to FAIL a lot. Listen in to discover how you can tap into your own dedication and drive in order to achieve all of your goals! About The Guest: Our guest today Uri Levine, is very RARE! He’s built two companies that have been evaluated at more than $1 billion, and in his new book Fall In Love With The Problem Not The Solution, he shares how he did just that. As the Co-Founder of Waze, a commuting and navigation app with more than 700,000 million users to date, which he sold to Google for over $1 billion, Levine is committed to spreading entrepreneurial thinking so that others can build their own highly valued companies too! If You Liked This Episode You Might Also Like These Episodes: The Key To Staying Positive When The Unexpected Challenge Inevitably Hits With Heather! Your FAITH Is Stronger Than Your FEAR! with Heather! EMBRACE The 4 Phases Of Change With Jason Feifer The Editor & Chief Of Entrepreneur Magazine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	the entrepreneurs will never know one is time to quit. One of the most significant behaviors of
0:06.5	enterprises is the greed, is the perseverance, right, is the never giving up attitude. And it goes
0:12.0	together with the passion and the mission that is totally engaged with this journey. If you look at
0:18.8	what is the most important behavior of entrepreneurs, never giving up is number one. I'm on this journey with
0:25.3	me. Each week when you join me, we are going to chase down our goals. We've come at diversity and
0:31.6	set you up for better tomorrow. After no success, I'm ready for my close time. Hi and welcome back. I'm
0:38.2	so excited for you to meet our guest today. Now, if you don't know what a unicorn is, it's a company
0:44.3	that reaches a valuation of more than $1 billion. Obviously, very rare. Our guest today, Yuri Levine,
0:52.1	has built two and in fall in love with the problem. Not the solution. His new book, he shows you
0:59.2	exactly how he did it as the co-founder of Waze, the world's leading commuting and navigation app,
1:04.4	with more than 700 million users to date, which Google acquired in 2013 for $1.15 billion. Levine is
1:13.0	committed to spreading entrepreneurial thinking so that other founders, managers, and employees and
1:17.5	the tech space can build their own highly value companies. Yuri, thank you so much for being here today.
1:24.7	Thank you. Really happy to be here. Okay. I have to tell you right out of the gates that as
1:30.1	number one, thank you to Cara Golden for introducing us and connecting us. But as I went down the
1:36.4	rabbit hole of your life and started learning so much about your work beyond the headlines,
1:43.2	which you're very well known, and really diving into your thought process, it made me realize
1:49.5	something, Yuri, that made me feel upset and emotional. I've been focusing my entrepreneurial life
1:57.4	and business on solutions so wholeheartedly that I almost was forgetting about the problem.
2:04.6	And I can't tell you how grateful I am to have this interview with you today because I don't know
2:10.4	how it ended up so reverse for me. Do you ever hear other entrepreneurs feeling that same way?
2:15.0	So for a second, I would say many of the entrepreneurs start with this solution. Now, the fact that I
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