378: Hosting Steve Jobs and Birthing Giants with Scaling Up’s Verne Harnish
After growing up around a failed family business, Verne Harnish was determined to use his experience to help young entrepreneurs succeed. 40 years later, he’s helped startups across the world scale to become multi-million dollar businesses and worked with some of the most famous entrepreneurs of our time.
Verne, known as the "Growth Guy,” founded the world-renowned Entrepreneurs' Organization, co-founded the Growth Institute, and has written 2 books including Scaling Up, Mastering the Rockefeller Habits.
Listen to Foundr CEO Nathan Chan discuss with Verne about:
- Hosting Steve Jobs’ first public speech after being fired from Apple
- Why sales is still the best proven way to get to $1 million in revenue
- The traits of success he’s learned from entrepreneurs like Mark Cuban, Brad Feld, and Nate Blecharczyk
- Remembering “the look” of Mark Zuckerberg, Michael Dell, and Steve Jobs
- Why cofounders scale further faster than single founders
- Why every entrepreneur needs to be a little crazy
- And much more...
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