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Michael Acton Smith

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“Don't know if I've ever thought of myself as a good salesperson. I think I get very animated and energized and passionate about things I really, really believe in, which I think is probably a key part of being good at selling things. Yeah, it was one of the many, many endeavors when we were younger going to car boot sales and selling things and trying to match them with the people that were walking by. So interesting she said that. I never knew that.”
2022-01-31 · The Diary of a CEO · Calm App Founder: From $0 To $2 Billion By Making The World Meditate: Michael Acton Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Exactly. Yeah. So I think, you know, along with curiosity, I think creativity is part of it as well. I love ideas. I love taking the random things that are kind of rattling around my head, putting them onto a sheet of paper, playing around with them, thinking about them from different angles, and then taking the best ones and putting them out there in the world. And this is the beauty of being an entrepreneur. You know, you can talk about stuff endlessly, but only when you meet the market do you find out whether there's any merit to your ideas and you can see whether people actually resonate and use or buy or talk about whatever it is that you're creating. I just love that.”
2022-01-31 · The Diary of a CEO · Calm App Founder: From $0 To $2 Billion By Making The World Meditate: Michael Acton Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm not sure I was very impressively mediocre at school, right in the middle, definitely not in the top set for anything. But I think if I had to pin down one characteristic, it would probably be curiosity. I was just fascinated by lots of different things. And my dad was a librarian. He used to bring books home for me and my sister all the time on all sorts of random subjects, and I'd just devour them, and so I think that kind of sparked this interest in different areas of life. And I think when you start, when you're curious, everything becomes interesting in life. Every country you go to, and you start to kind of connect dots between different things. And I think that's a really important part of the entrepreneurial mindset.”
2022-01-31 · The Diary of a CEO · Calm App Founder: From $0 To $2 Billion By Making The World Meditate: Michael Acton Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Everyone thought we were crazy. The bridge between the seed money we raised and getting to a series A took years and years. And then that was where the point was like we're taking off. It's happening. Never have we been assailed with more noise and stimulation from social media to billboards to TV. It's coming at us constantly. One of the most valuable skills in the 21st century is to be able to decide where and how and when we put our attention. The human brain is the most complex thing in the known universe and yet it doesn't come with an instruction manual.”
2022-01-31 · The Diary of a CEO · Calm App Founder: From $0 To $2 Billion By Making The World Meditate: Michael Acton Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Solving the global mental health crisis, it's a first order problem. And I realized that this could be one of the biggest opportunities in businesses in the world.”
2022-01-31 · The Diary of a CEO · Calm App Founder: From $0 To $2 Billion By Making The World Meditate: Michael Acton Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT