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Guy Raz

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“We actually are not living at a time when entrepreneurship is at its height. There were more entrepreneurs in the 70s, 80s in America than there are today, even though we talk about it more today. There are fewer today than there were then. And I want to see a resurgence. I want to see, and you don't have to build the next Earth-shattering app or, you know, huge tech company. It can be an HVAC company. It can be a small business. But to me, the idea of creating something that allows you to employ other people and give them work and meaning and a good life that allows them to support other people and send people to college, that means a lot. I'm a really big believer in small businesses and entrepreneurs. And I really think that people who want to do it, the only obstacle to getting there is the inability to think of oneself as an entrepreneur. And what I'm saying is that”
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“I guess I really just want to say that I don't believe entrepreneurs are any different than us. I think that We are all Clark Kent's, and the only difference is that they went into the phone booth and put on the cape. And I'm a big believer in entrepreneurship. I think it's exciting. I think it gives people control over their lives. I think it is good for the economy. I think it spurs innovation. I think it allows people to live more independent lives.”
2020-09-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #462: Guy Raz — Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs, The Story of 'How I Built This,' Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, it's the most simple thing. It's become one of the most cliched things too. But it is so important. It's what President Obama talked about in his outgoing address, the last address he gave before his presidency ended. And it's two words. It's be kind. It's be kind. I mean, we are all going to be unkind multiple times in our lives in a day. But if you can make that your North Star and just try and sear that into your memory or tattoo it on your arm or put on a billboard. It's be kind. It's going to make our world just a little bit better.”
2020-09-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #462: Guy Raz — Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs, The Story of 'How I Built This,' Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I read the four hour work week. That's what I did. But just figured it out. No, I mean, you know, it is a little bit rich for you to be saying that because you're insanely productive and produce insanely good stuff. So, I mean, this book, again, it's like tribe of mentors. You know, it's designed to be a Designed to be a reference. It's designed to be a guide. It's designed to be the person that whispers in your ear, you're going to be okay. It's going to be okay. Keep going. And that's why I wrote the book.”
2020-09-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #462: Guy Raz — Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs, The Story of 'How I Built This,' Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The best place to find me, the best place to find the book is you can go to guyroz.com and all the information is there. But to find me, I'm on Instagram. I like Instagram. I'm at guy.roz. I'm on Twitter at GuyRaz. I'm on Facebook too, but don't love that one. As much. So even though Instagram is Facebook. But yeah, I have fun on Instagram. Personal stuff on there, my kids, but also like stuff from the show. And it's kind of a mixture. So I try to just put myself out there and. Yeah, so you can find me there.”
2020-09-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #462: Guy Raz — Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs, The Story of 'How I Built This,' Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“He's just obsessively listening to it because he was so sad when Juice Rule died, and he's deconstructing the lyrics. And he's like, Dad, it's like he almost predicted his own death, you know. And it's just so, I just love developing those connections. So for me, it's been the most fulfilling part of my life. And I think that anybody who's lucky enough to experience having a child in their life will really kind of rediscover themselves as well. And I think that's what my talk would be about.”
2020-09-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #462: Guy Raz — Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs, The Story of 'How I Built This,' Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I know a lot about and means a lot to me and its fatherhood. I mean, that's the single most important part of my life. You know, I've got two boys, 11 and 9. That is my identity first and foremost to me. I'm a dad, you know. I love everything about it. I live for my time with my kids and getting to take a hike with them and getting to swim with them or jump on the trampoline. I mean, I even sit and watch their video games and I hate video games because I just love being around them, you know, and they're so interesting. And sometimes they drive me crazy too. But, you know, like my 11-year-old, this album from Juice World just came out and...”
2020-09-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #462: Guy Raz — Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs, The Story of 'How I Built This,' Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I guess my big idea, I tend to talk about them on the show, kindness and things like that, that I always aspire to as well, you know, that I'm sort of giving myself advice and looking to others for advice too. Because in some ways my show and what I do is a form of therapy. It's being able to talk to people and hear their challenges and dilemmas is very therapeutic when you kind of talk through it with somebody. And I guess my talk would be about For me, I mean, I think it's a hard one because I know that it doesn't apply to everyone and I think it can be maybe traumatic isn't the right word, but challenging for a lot of people to hear. But it's the one that I”
2020-09-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #462: Guy Raz — Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs, The Story of 'How I Built This,' Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You deliver? I know a lot about the Washington Nationals baseball team. I don't know if I'd give my TED talk about that. People probably would be surprised to find out that I'm really interested in baseball. I love baseball. I'm a big baseball fan. So it could be about that. I could probably give a TED talk about usually TED Talks are about a big idea, right?”
2020-09-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #462: Guy Raz — Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs, The Story of 'How I Built This,' Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“A little bit of eczema will come up and my skin will be dry, and we just started experimenting. And I swear to you, we have made this awesome skin cream that I'm using all the time. Are we ever going to sell it unlikely? But who knows? Who knows? Maybe.”
2020-09-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #462: Guy Raz — Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs, The Story of 'How I Built This,' Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I love food. I love, you know, I've learned a lot about cosmetics and skincare products from how I built this and hair care products. And I've always made things. I've never, especially in the kitchen, I've never, you know, I don't buy mayonnaise. I haven't bought yogurt in 20 years. I'll always make it. I make all my own milk, nut milks. Kombucha, it's just things I love doing it. It sounds very NPR. Like, oh my God, this guy's an NPR person. He makes his own kombucha and almond milk. But I love doing it. It's just, it's like my kids want ice cream. I make it. My mom used to be like that. She's like, I can make it because I love doing it, you know. And I started to get with my wife. I started to get into like making skin creams and, you know, like just even during the pandemic, you know, because like a lot of people, I get like an eczema.”
2020-09-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #462: Guy Raz — Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs, The Story of 'How I Built This,' Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I mean, obviously I've got a production company. I've got two, so one that does how I built this and my program wisdom from the top and other projects around media. And I've got another production company that makes children's content. It's called Tinkercast and we make Wow in the World. And we've got a live event series when there are live events and other projects that we do. So that's really been my main focus when it comes to businesses. They're both small businesses, but I always say to people, you know, a small business can be much more successful than a big business. You know, a corner grocery store that's profitable is doing better than Uber. Which is not yet profitable. But it's for me, I mean, I often think about, I mean, I think like anybody listening to how I built this, I have a million ideas of things that I would love to do. And maybe, I mean,”
2020-09-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #462: Guy Raz — Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs, The Story of 'How I Built This,' Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And solder them and then sell them to first he got his first order, he sold it to Carnegie Mellon, and it enabled them to connect their IBM PCs to Epson printers. Well, that became a billion dollar business today. I mean, Belkin makes... He was selling canvas tents and jeans to the gold rushers, you know. And today that company is still here. And you can't say the same thing about most of those PC clones. So I'm really fascinated in looking at a big industry. What I say to, especially when I talk to younger entrepreneurs, they don't try to replicate what Uber's doing. Try and figure out how you can service Uber. Don't try to build the next Airbnb. Build a company that actually services things around Airbnb. That is really where that's where the opportunities are.”
2020-09-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #462: Guy Raz — Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs, The Story of 'How I Built This,' Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Some wire to plug in your iPhone. And Chet Pipkin really wanted to start a PC company in the early 80s, but he couldn't compete with Compaq and Texas Instruments and IBM and then all these PC clones that were coming out. He didn't have the capital to do it. All he had was a soldering iron. And he knew, because he was a young guy and he used to hang out a radio shack that if you bought an IBM PC and an Epsom printer, you could not connect them because there were no peripherals that were sold to connect them. People initially had to have radio shack sell them the different plugs and then they would have to solder them themselves. I mean, it's nuts. And he literally started building, creating peripherals. You'd buy cables.”
2020-09-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #462: Guy Raz — Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs, The Story of 'How I Built This,' Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Levi Strauss, who sold tents, canvas tents, and then jeans, Henry Wells and William Fargo who went to Stockton and some of these cities in Central California to deliver, help deliver packages and boxes, and that was what Wells Fargo was. It was a courier service. You know, they originally had started American Express, then they come out to California. Girardelli, He comes out to be a gold prospector too, but that doesn't work out. So he starts making chocolates and pastries. And there you go. So I'm really interested in this idea of servicing big industries. One of the people I interviewed on how I built this, and I talk about it in the book, is Chet Pipkin. Chet Pipkin started a company called Belkin. And I will bet you any amount of money that you have one of his products in your house and people listening do. They've got a peripheral or a cable or some Belkin thing in their house, okay?”
2020-09-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #462: Guy Raz — Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs, The Story of 'How I Built This,' Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“From servicing the gold rush. They didn't make their money from the gold rush. They all ended up in California because in one summer in 1849 or 1850, 30,000 people came to California from across the country in the world. It was an invasion of human beings searching for gold. And as we know, almost nobody made anything, even Sutter ended up, I believe ended up impoverished when he died. You know, it was Sutter's mill where the gold was discovered. But the people who actually made the money were the people like...”
2020-09-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #462: Guy Raz — Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs, The Story of 'How I Built This,' Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Was the city, it was like Levi's and Girardelli and Wells Fargo and the Trans America Tower, you know. And what's amazing is if you think about San Francisco and you think about those enduring names, Levi's, wells Fargo, Henry Wells, William Fargo, Girardelli, Domingo Girardelli, I started to look at into those stories. All of those people made their money.”
2020-09-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #462: Guy Raz — Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs, The Story of 'How I Built This,' Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But things that have also been so disruptive that we don't quite haven't fully realized how disruptive they are in a negative way. One of the things that struck me when I first moved here, because I moved to the Bay Area two years ago from Washington, D.C., was I took the ferry from Jack London Square in Oakland to San Francisco, to the ferry terminal. And you get out and there's the Salesforce Tower and I think on Market Street you've got like Twitter and Zynga and all these huge tech companies, you know. And then you're looking down Market Street and there's the headquarters of Wells Fargo, the world headquarters of Wells Fargo. And then to the right there's like Levi Strauss Square and then further down there's Girardelli Square. And I just, I remember coming to San Francisco as a kid. And that was that.”
2020-09-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #462: Guy Raz — Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs, The Story of 'How I Built This,' Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, there are a lot of them, right? But one that I think about a lot, you know, I live in the Bay Area and I used to live in the Bay Area. And it's a very complex place because on the one hand, you have incredible weather and beautiful, just beautiful nature. On the other hand, the city of San Francisco is one of the most troubling cities in the world. You've got just immense wealth, the highest number of billionaires in the world. And you've got parts of the city that look like Gotham City, you know, where human beings are living in the most deprived conditions, unimaginable conditions. And so with that backdrop, you know, I think a lot about San Francisco and I think a lot about what the tech world has wrought some incredible things, right? Amazing transformational things.”
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“Nope. It would not get bought, which is unbelievable, right? You think about it because that show is so incredible. But if you try to pitch that today as an unknown person, yeah, it wouldn't get bought.”
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“Brilliant, but also expensive. I mean, Radio Lab is an expensive show to make. Invisibilia and PR's program is an expensive show to make, but they're so beautiful and so brilliant and so important. And so, you know, my hope is that there will still be a world where that content can be created without the necessity to profit necessarily. But I do think that the industry is moving in that direction. I think what's going to look more like HBO and Hulu and Netflix and, you know, Disney Plus and et cetera, et cetera, where you're going to probably have to subscribe or pay to these different channels to hear your favorite programs.”
2020-09-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #462: Guy Raz — Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs, The Story of 'How I Built This,' Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The reality is that it is also an advertising platform. And where there's money to be made, there are going to be all kinds of folks looking for opportunities. And there's nothing wrong with that. My hope is that it's not only market driven, you know, because I think if podcasting is entirely market driven, you're going to see a lot of content that is polarizing. You're going to see a lot of politically polarizing content and also a lot of like true crime content. And I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that. I enjoy some of that stuff, but I don't want that to be the only thing that is rising to the top. You know, I think that...”
2020-09-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #462: Guy Raz — Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs, The Story of 'How I Built This,' Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Only a tiny, tiny top of a pin head number of those podcasts have over 50,000 listeners a week. It's just a teeny tiny number. And even a smaller atomic molecule fraction of that have a million or more listeners a week. It doesn't mean that it's impossible to gain that audience. I mean, the beauty of podcasting is the barrier to entry is very low. Anybody can start recording themselves and upload it to these platforms. But I think that”
2020-09-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #462: Guy Raz — Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs, The Story of 'How I Built This,' Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think it's going to be much closer to the premium television model. I think that we are going to see more and more large networks like Spotify, Amazon, Apple, et cetera, platforms, I should say, kind of creating walled gardens. They may be free walled gardens, but walled gardens where you can only hear Joe Rogan on Spotify, or you can only hear GyRaz on Spotify or Tim Ferris or on Amazon, whatever it might be. I think that is inevitable. If I'd be perfectly honest, I don't know if that's going to be great for consumers. And I don't know if it's going to be great for podcast kind of ecosystem. You know, podcasting right now is a little bit like community radio in the 70s. It's wide open. Anybody can start one. There are a million podcasts in the English language.”
2020-09-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #462: Guy Raz — Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs, The Story of 'How I Built This,' Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Going door to door, selling software. And over time, you get used to people saying, no soliciting, no thank you, please leave my premises or hanging up the phone and becoming resilient to that and just knowing that you've got to keep grinding away because that is essentially what a business is about. And if you can learn that, if you can kind of expose yourself to rejection again and again and develop a thicker skin and an ability to withstand that in my experience interviewing now, you know, deep dive interviews with more than 300 very influential entrepreneurs, I've discovered that that is really something that almost all of them have in common.”
2020-09-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #462: Guy Raz — Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs, The Story of 'How I Built This,' Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Were younger, but asking somebody out on a date was very hard for me to do when I was younger. I would never have done it because I was always scared of somebody saying no. I wasn't like, you know, some of these people that I remember, they would say, well, you ask a hundred people out and maybe one will go out with you. I wasn't like that. I've never been good with rejection. I've learned to get much better with it. And why this is important is because when you are building any idea, whether it's in your company, like if you're entrepreneurial or you're trying to create something disruptive out in the world, you will always find people who will push back against it, right? There are always going to be people who will reject your idea. And it's why I think a lot of successful entrepreneurs started out as salespeople like Mark Cuban or Sarah Blakely. You know, she was selling fax machines door to door. Mark Cuban was selling computer software for, you know, CopyServe. And we eventually sold to CopyServe.”
2020-09-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #462: Guy Raz — Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs, The Story of 'How I Built This,' Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We had this really A dramatic decline, and it was scary, and so I started to interrogate what we were doing and whether we could do it better. And we tripled down. I mean, we launched a new offshoot show called How I Built This Resilience Series, which I now do twice a week in addition to the main episode on Mondays. So I do a main episode Monday and then Wednesday and Friday do a live conversation with a founder talking about resilience. you know miraculously we doubled our audience. We really worked and continue to work really hard on it. The other thing that I've been really influenced around is the idea of rejection. I think that this to me is the most important skill that an entrepreneur has to develop, the ability to withstand rejection. Rejection is really hard. It really sucks. Like I don't know if you ever experienced this, Tim when”
2020-09-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #462: Guy Raz — Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs, The Story of 'How I Built This,' Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Act small, and that's how you get big. I wrote a chapter about this in the book because what he was saying was essentially was don't get comfortable. He saw the collapse of the big airlines, TWA and Aloha and a bunch of other big airlines, Pan Am. And he said they collapsed because they got too comfortable and cocky. And they were on top of the world. And so they stopped paying attention to the things that matter, like efficiencies and innovation. And so, you know, he was, his argument was let's think small, let's act small. Well, today Southwest Airlines is what the third biggest airline in the world, right? And so that to me is a really inspiring way to think about what we do too. You know, I do try to think small and act small. I don't ever take for granted the success of our show and our listeners. In fact, after the pandemic hit, we had a moment where our audience really just briefly collapsed, not collapsed, it dramatically dropped.”
2020-09-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #462: Guy Raz — Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs, The Story of 'How I Built This,' Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I mean, a lot of them, I think about change. To always kind of stay off balance a little bit. Starbucks is a good example because it's such a behemoth. I remember Herb Kelleher, the late Herb Kelleher of Southwest Airlines, who didn't live in Austin, but he lived in not too far from you in Texas, I guess far. Texas is pretty big. But Herb Kelleher, just a wonderful man, started Southwest Airlines. And his motto was think small.”
2020-09-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #462: Guy Raz — Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs, The Story of 'How I Built This,' Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“He's like, let me get you in touch with him. That one lunch transformed Jamie's life. You know, it's this idea of taking opportunities when they come and understanding that luck really does pass all of us by sometimes multiple times. And it's really what we end up doing with it”
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“In earnest, honest feedback. And the guy was like, Oh, I really appreciate that. And he's like, Oh, by the way, what are you working on? And Jamie's like, oh, it's nothing. It's just this. So, yeah, tell me. He's like, oh, well, it's these doorbells called doorbot. It's like a video doorbell. And it's, you know, we're trying to see if it'll work. And he's like, no way. He's like, dude, you should go on shark tank. And Jamie's like. And Jamie's like, well, I'd love to go on Shark Tank, but so would 30,000 other people. He's like, no, no. He's like, I have a friend who's a producer on Shark Tank. He's like,”
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“Started a successful business yet. And so he calls up Jamie and he says, Hey, will you meet my friend and have lunch with them? And Jamie's like, all right, fine, I'll do it. So the day of the lunch comes, and it's just a horrible day for Jamie. Like his business is like tanking. He's feeling really low. He's not feeling confident. He really doesn't want to go to this lunch. He knows that this guy he's having lunch with actually comes from a family with a lot of money and he's like, why am I going and giving him advice? What advice am I? Can I give this guy? And it's all the way in like Hollywood and he's got to drive from the other side of LA and he gets to this lunch and he's hearing the guy's idea and it's not a great idea. It's like a social media network for Hollywood agents. And he asks Jamie for his feedback and Jamie gives him.”
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“Can I add a story to that? Because he is the perfect example of this idea that you just put out there, right? Which is to increase the surface area of luck. He was at sort of a low point for his business, Dorbot. It was called Doorbat before it was ring. A friend of his called him up and said, hey, I know this guy. He wants to start a social media network. He doesn't really know much about entrepreneurship. And he asked me if I know any entrepreneurs and I know you. You start a bunch of businesses because at that point, Jamie had started a bunch of businesses and hadn't really.”
2020-09-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #462: Guy Raz — Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs, The Story of 'How I Built This,' Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“They almost took out a line of credit on their house to save this business, what eventually saved him was going on Shark Tank. He got really lucky and went on Shark Tank and got this exposure. He really believed that people would want a video doorbell. He just, in his heart and gut, he knew it. And so I think that it is a learned behavior. I think really believing in something is a learned behavior. I think most of the skill, most of the traits, what we call traits of entrepreneurs are not actually traits. I think they are skills that are learned. I think some people are naturally more inclined to assimilate these ideas faster. But I think for the most part, most of us have the capacity to learn these behaviors and skills that enable us all to behave entrepreneurially.”
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“To be solved. And if I can't do it, nobody's going to do it. If this isn't going to work with me, it's not going to work with anyone. And this problem's never going to be solved. He said, so what kept me going was I knew this was a problem that had to be solved. And I was convinced of it. And that's what kept him going. Today, the brand is owned by Procter& Gamble. It's incredibly successful. Target and Walmart and everywhere around the country. And Tristan Walker is just a phenomenal inspiring guy. And that's the thing. I think that it's not this blind optimism, but it is an unshakable belief that the idea they have has to be put out. It has to be out in the world in some form or fashion. It has to. I mean, you know, Jamie Siminoff with Ring with his doorbell company. I mean, he was close to bankrupt eight years ago. His wife almost...”
2020-09-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #462: Guy Raz — Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs, The Story of 'How I Built This,' Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“African American men when they shave, oftentimes they develop razor bombs, which are painful and And Tristan. Wanted to create something that was beautifully packaged, that was high quality, that was designed for men who have curly hair. So when their hair grows back out of their beards, it wouldn't curl back into their skin. He wanted to create a razor that would solve that problem. He could not find funding for this. He could not eventually found some funding, but he really couldn't find the kind of funding that Dollar Shave Club got or some of these other brands, Harry's. And I asked him, I said, why did you, when this wasn't working, when you weren't, you know, able to market this properly or get the sales you wanted, how did you know to keep going? How did you have the optimism? He said, because I knew with my heart and soul every single man that I have known my whole life, every black and brown man that I've known who has this problem needs it.”
2020-09-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #462: Guy Raz — Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs, The Story of 'How I Built This,' Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I am a big, first of all, I'm a big believer in training. This is why I'm a fan of the work you do, because you have trained yourself to develop expertise in a variety of things, to prove that anybody can do this. Now, I do think that there are some people who are just born with more charisma. That's a fact. Some people just have it. But I wouldn't say most of the entrepreneurs on the show are born with that kind of charisma. And I wouldn't even say that they are any different than the rest of us. But I do think that they were able to convince themselves that their idea was going to work. I'll give you an example. Tristan Walker, he founded this company called Bevel. They make, it's now owned by Procter& Gamble. They make razors and other products for men and women of color. And the reason why is because particularly, you know,”
2020-09-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #462: Guy Raz — Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs, The Story of 'How I Built This,' Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, at that moment in time, it was enough to get me back to sleep. But when we looked at it three months later, it was shocking. It was incredible. I was like, how is it that in our minds we amplify things? We think that these challenges in front of our eyes or these anxieties we have are so big and so often they're not. So often they pass with time or they are resolved or they're less important than you think they are.”
2020-09-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #462: Guy Raz — Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs, The Story of 'How I Built This,' Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Nothing on that list mattered. It was, you know, things that just seemed insurmountable. None of them mattered. They were all irrelevant by that point.”
2020-09-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #462: Guy Raz — Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs, The Story of 'How I Built This,' Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's a good wife of you guys. I'm going to close this up, okay? Now go to sleep. And we looked at that three months later and not a single thing on that list mattered. Not a single thing.”
2020-09-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #462: Guy Raz — Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs, The Story of 'How I Built This,' Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Be incredibly, incredibly important, especially when you're experiencing anxiety. And just as an aside, about six months ago, no, it was maybe nine months ago, I was going through just a lot of anxiety. I was working on this book and I was like, I had all these deadlines and live shows and I've got my kids show out in the world and how I built this. And I was, you know, leaving TED radio hour and that transition was happening and it just had a lot of anxiety. And I couldn't sleep. And it was like one of the morning and my wife was up and she was like, look, she grabs a journal from the side of the bed. She says, just start telling me what's on your mind. And she wrote everything down. She just bullet pointed every single thing.”
2020-09-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #462: Guy Raz — Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs, The Story of 'How I Built This,' Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In a remote place with no electricity, no cell service. This is in the 1990s. He wrote a novel, which has never been published. He says it was cathartic. He says a terrible novel, but he wrote it. He got a lot out. You know, he wrote a lot of his head out onto paper. I know you do this a lot. I know you're into journaling and writing things down.”
2020-09-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #462: Guy Raz — Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs, The Story of 'How I Built This,' Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I was able to relax, to like dance, you know. I mean, I say dance, but I was one of those kids in high school who would sit on the sides, you know, on the sidelines and the walls during the dances because I thought the people who were dancing weren't cool. Even though I wasn't cool, I just didn't, you know what I mean? But that year really kind of made me see. World in a different way because I was outside of my own environment. And that was so important for me. And that's really how, you know, how I was able to see things and just through completely different lenses.”
2020-09-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #462: Guy Raz — Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs, The Story of 'How I Built This,' Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Many journalists are just cynical. And I had some of that. And I needed to get away to lose that. I would never have, you know, if I was a journalist and I heard about the Harvard Business School case studies, I would have been like, oh, yeah, a bunch of, you know, business people making more money or something. I would have, I don't know if that's what I would have said, but it would have been something closer to that. But getting away from that world, you know 12, 13 years ago and seeing it a completely different world for a year kind of just reawakened me. It was like I was just able to chip away and then really start to push away that cynicism, just really push it away and start to kind of, it's like”
2020-09-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #462: Guy Raz — Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs, The Story of 'How I Built This,' Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Becoming a father for the first time. And I think what that really helped me also to become, strangely enough, was less cynical. You know, there is a natural skepticism that you develop as a journalist, which I think is important, but oftentimes that develops into cynicism.”
2020-09-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #462: Guy Raz — Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs, The Story of 'How I Built This,' Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Know, because he had to survive, and he went out there and he lived there for three months. Fished and he had no communication the outside world, but it completely transformed his mind. For me, that was a kind of a much more comfortable version of that going to Cambridge, Massachusetts and going to take classes at the Harvard Business School and the law school and the college. But it just reawakened me. You know how, and it was that plus.”
2020-09-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #462: Guy Raz — Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs, The Story of 'How I Built This,' Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah. And lived there for three months. He basically did what you do to do for your books, but like to actually experiment on yourself. But he did this.”
2020-09-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #462: Guy Raz — Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs, The Story of 'How I Built This,' Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I did an episode of How I Built This On These Guys. And one of the co founders, he basically was going through a depression when they were trying to form the company. Todd Carmichael He wanted to just drop out and leave. And his co founder said, just take some time, just go. And Todd, like, flew to a remote island in the South Pacific with no electricity.”
2020-09-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #462: Guy Raz — Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs, The Story of 'How I Built This,' Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“A big deal, you know, because news organizations operate with their own set of standards and guidelines and values that sometimes make a lot of sense and sometimes don't. And that year just tore those blinders off. All of a sudden I'm out of my For a month or a year or six months, and just as a digression, I did an episode on La Cologne Coffee, right? Have you had La Colome Coffee before?”
2020-09-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #462: Guy Raz — Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs, The Story of 'How I Built This,' Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It was transformational because I had been in the newsworld my whole professional life. And anyone who has been in one industry or in one place knows what it's like to develop tunnel vision. You know, you are around people who think like you in general and who have similar interests. Now, journalists are fascinating, wonderful people. I love journalists. They're some of the most interesting, funniest, smartest people around. But the news business and news organizations, especially NPR, are extremely conservative culturally and very slow to change. You know, things that are radical at news organizations in the business world, people would be like, what? Why is that radical? Like, what do you mean? Like, that's what we do every day. You're telling that.”
2020-09-10 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #462: Guy Raz — Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs, The Story of 'How I Built This,' Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT