Latest / Founder Unfiltered - What Founders Think But Never Say / Take the Blame, Give the Credit: The Leadership Mindset That Scales with Asim Khaliq
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- 0:00Welcome to another episode of Founder Unfiltered.
- 0:03My name is Bradley Jacobs. I'm your host, the founder and
- 0:07CEO of Mylance. Today I'm joined by Aseem
- 0:10Khaliq. Aseem leads ecommerce brands and
- 0:14professionals to build scalable businesses through strategy,
- 0:16execution systems and brand positioning.
- 0:19He has over 27 years of experience, seven companies
- 0:23built, and over $800 million in revenue generated, bringing
- 0:27proven frameworks to startups and scaling brands.
- 0:30We're going to go deep Aseem. I'm really excited to have you
- 0:33on the show today. Thanks for having me.
- 0:35Excited for you to be here. So I want to jump right in into
- 0:39some of the things you were sharing with me earlier on
- 0:42before we started recording was the problem is the founder and
- 0:47I, I'm on board with this, but but tell me what you mean by
- 0:50that. So most of the time the founders
- 0:53are the visionary and they think that the vision they need to
- 0:58carry through the execution, which is fine.
- 1:01At the early stage of their businesses, when they start the
- 1:04business, they are everything from marketing genius to
- 1:09execution, you know, pro. But as the business grow, it's
- 1:14very difficult for founder to detach themselves from those
- 1:18decisions because the the culture they build within within
- 1:21the within their company or the startup is everything comes to
- 1:26them and they approve and disapprove.
- 1:30They need to be part of every meeting.
- 1:32This means they know they they're going to have the final
- 1:34say. But as the companies grows, most
- 1:39of the time the the founders does not have the skill set to
- 1:43make those decisions. Or even if they have the skill
- 1:46set, they cannot just become the bottleneck for their own vision.
- 1:51So this means what founders need to do is they need to detach
- 1:56themselves from those decision, from their emotional attachment
- 2:02to the vision and the business. And it is, it is a very
- 2:06difficult transition from A to B.
- 2:10It, it's not going to happen, you know, in one day.
- 2:12But they need to get prepared for this thing that one day, you
- 2:17know, their brainchild is going to be big enough that they're
- 2:22going to talk and run, you know, by themselves.
- 2:26Do not intervene too much. I imagine this is particularly
- 2:30challenging because the Super early days of building a
- 2:33company, the founder is going off on their intuition a lot
- 2:37using data where they can. But it, it is a little bit like
- 2:41as a founder, you make every single decision early on and
- 2:44then there becomes a point where that changes as you're talking
- 2:48about. And I'm guessing that's why this
- 2:51transition is so challenging. Yeah.
- 2:53And then the other misconception come from probably more books
- 2:58and and academics that dedication is the way to go.
- 3:03And in my opinion, that becomes another bottleneck.
- 3:07What happened? They start hiring different
- 3:09people and other people start executing their tasks, their
- 3:13responsibilities, but in between those, those transition as well.
- 3:20What they do not create is the decision design system, meaning,
- 3:26although people are working on their task, but then they come
- 3:30into the founder again to make the decision.
- 3:34And over the period of time, repeatedly, repeatedly, this
- 3:37becomes a company's culture. The founders become so insecure
- 3:41that maybe X or Y is going to make a wrong decision.
- 3:45I need to make that decision. And what happened this, this
- 3:50decision, abundance of decision at the founder desk, it's not
- 3:55only the bottleneck, it becomes a biggest obstacle for their
- 3:59growth. And most of the time the failure
- 4:02becomes, you know, very significant.
- 4:05So what I said to them is, you know, delegation is good, but
- 4:10let people make the decisions as well.
- 4:13They're going to make some, you know, wrong decisions.
- 4:16That's fine. You need to have some tolerance
- 4:18of the for the failure. But then they're going to learn,
- 4:21you know, what is, what is wrong and what is right.
- 4:24And then this is how you're going to execute, you know, your
- 4:27vision more professionally. So let me ask you right, if you,
- 4:32every founder starts their company because they have either
- 4:35problem they want to solve a customer they care about some
- 4:38combination. And then as they go along, it's
- 4:42possible that the solution that you build actually might be best
- 4:47for a slightly different customer or the the, you know,
- 4:49the solution looks different than you wanted it to.
- 4:53So excuse me, like what do you recommend in that situation?
- 4:57That is 1 of what one of the attribute you need to have as a
- 5:01founder, that you shouldn't be driven by your intuition and the
- 5:06emotional attachment to the problem.
- 5:09So let the problem flow through the customer's mind and utility,
- 5:15whatever you know you're solving and customers are going to shape
- 5:19it. So you need to have a continuous
- 5:22feedback loop where you are getting, you know, most of of
- 5:27the feedback instead of, you know, you're pushing your, your
- 5:31problem and the solution to the customer that this is the right
- 5:34solution. Not the customer going to come
- 5:36to you and they're going to say active.
- 5:38This is not, you know, this is the right solution because I am
- 5:42the one you should be focusing on instead of you, you know, so
- 5:47it's a continuous validation process through the feedback
- 5:50loop. The moment you're going to
- 5:51disconnect this feedback, you're going to push people and you're
- 5:56going to become obsolete, you know, at one point.
- 5:59I mean, it's such an interesting question, right?
- 6:01Because you're going to be working on your business for
- 6:03many, many, many years, right? These aren't quick things,
- 6:07right? Minimum 5710 years probably,
- 6:09assuming you have success, you know, over time and you do want
- 6:13to be passionate about what you're working on.
- 6:16Like how do you think about that?
- 6:18How do you think about that? You need to have the humility to
- 6:22accept that you don't know everything, so you know the best
- 6:27people who are the best learner. You need to have that acceptance
- 6:32that I don't know everything and someone else has the knowledge
- 6:38and I need to have those receptors who receive all this
- 6:43information and make it a straight decision.
- 6:46And that's all you know. And this is very emotional
- 6:50because the more you learn, you think you know more.
- 6:54In my opinion, the more you learn actually gives you the
- 6:57humility that you don't know much.
- 7:00So that is the thing, you know, if you're a founder, you are a
- 7:03leader. You need to act like a leader
- 7:06that you know, I don't know everyone, everything.
- 7:10And let's get, you know, the, the, the, the point is, you
- 7:13know, I need to be more listening than talking.
- 7:17So what I'm hearing you say is listening as a founder and being
- 7:21unattached to what I think the right answer is, is an
- 7:25incredibly important skill. What else are the top from what
- 7:29you've seen in all the businesses you've started and
- 7:31every founder you've worked with?
- 7:33What are the other top 3-4 skills that are going to be the
- 7:35most important for a successful business?
- 7:38So first of all, you need to build a culture, but as I said
- 7:41before, you need to have a failure tolerance culture for
- 7:45yourself and for your team as well, number one.
- 7:49Number two, you need to always have this attribute that where
- 7:54you are taking all the blames for the failures and giving all
- 7:58the credits to the people. And this is how people get
- 8:00motivation, you know, motivated about, about about their
- 8:04responsibilities. And one of the most important
- 8:07thing is, as I said, you need to have the humility to listen to
- 8:13other people. The moment you're going to
- 8:15listen to other people, everyone is going to have an ownership
- 8:20stake in your vision. And people are going to say, you
- 8:23know, I'm also thinking this is my business and I need to
- 8:27execute because the culture is always, you know, you need to
- 8:31build a culture which is the reflection of your brand.
- 8:33You cannot do other way around. You cannot just build a brand
- 8:38because you think you're a genius and you know how to do
- 8:41branding. I know the culture is going to
- 8:44reflect on the on the on the market.
- 8:47So these are the kind of things you know you need to do.
- 8:49There are many other things you know you need to do as a leader,
- 8:53but these are the things, the culture is the first thing you
- 8:55need to have. You know, you know, taking
- 9:00blames and stuff. One more thing I would add, you
- 9:03know, never, you need to build resilience as well.
- 9:06And and like you're going to see, you know, so many failures,
- 9:09You're going to see execution failures, strategy failures,
- 9:12team failures. And if you get, you know, too
- 9:17much emotional about those things, everything is going to
- 9:20collapse in company because as a founder, you need to understand
- 9:25the problem you're going to solve is the only problem which
- 9:31you can solve and no one else can solve in the company.
- 9:34That's why they're talking to you.
- 9:36And people do not understand that this part.
- 9:38So let's suppose when I was running the company, they're not
- 9:41going to talk about, you know, if we have two returns extra
- 9:46mistake, they're going to talk to me if one of our corporate
- 9:51client is signing off and they are really pissed off.
- 9:54And you, I need to, you know, manage those clients the most
- 9:58difficult course, you know, problems I need to solve and I
- 10:02need to be very prepared about these things.
- 10:04And I don't worry about it. You know, I'm going to take care
- 10:08of it, although I don't know how to take care of it literally,
- 10:11you know, because but I cannot just make the perception what we
- 10:16cannot solve this problem. The moment I'm going to say that
- 10:19thing, the people are going to say, how come he's a leader?
- 10:21You know, one of the one of the things I heard you say is we get
- 10:24to tolerate failure, right? And that's not just within our
- 10:29own failures. It's also within the team and
- 10:31other people trying things that don't work and having that be a
- 10:36quote UN quote failure, right? I feel like that's easy to say.
- 10:40And then in practice that is so incredibly challenging.
- 10:43I mean we are just taught that like quote UN quote failure bad
- 10:45thing. It depends.
- 10:47You know what how you define failure.
- 10:49So that's suppose if you define failure which is very costly and
- 10:53you invest every penny in from your account into a strategy and
- 10:58then you test it and you say oh we are failed.
- 11:00No, for the failure there is 3 principles which is fail often,
- 11:05fail cheap and fail. Did it fail fast?
- 11:10Is that the other one? Yeah, the third one, you know,
- 11:13so let's suppose if I have a bigger strategy and I want to
- 11:17run this campaign, I just want to run the campaign $500 on, on
- 11:21Meta to validate invalidate my hypothesis or my creatives or my
- 11:26message. So the maximum failure is $500
- 11:29instead of you know, $50,000 campaign for VFCM.
- 11:33And that is the failure. You know, there is a difference
- 11:36between, you know, a blunder and a failure, You know, so you
- 11:40don't need to have in a 50,000 failure, depending on the
- 11:43company size, but I would, I don't mind, you know, if I, if
- 11:46I'm spending a couple of $100 to validate my hypothesis, my
- 11:50creative, my campaign, my messaging and optimizing those
- 11:54things, these are failures, you know, so you need to have a
- 11:58process where I going to fail three times in a day or two
- 12:02times in a day instead of, you know, one time in a month.
- 12:06So that's, that's the mindset, you know, of the failure.
- 12:09It's not like you're failing the whole company, you know?
- 12:12And maybe that the reframe there, right, is it's not a
- 12:15failure at all, right? If you test $500 and you find
- 12:18ads that don't work right, it's a learning, it's an experience,
- 12:23It's a, you know, iteration. And you take that forward and
- 12:27there's not even the word failure associated with.
- 12:29Yeah. So, yeah, those kind of, you
- 12:31know, validation and validation and, you know, iteration and
- 12:35feedback, you know, actually they use these kind of words as
- 12:39well. But at the end, people think,
- 12:41you know, emotionally that they fail, right?
- 12:43So you need to have this thing that that's OK.
- 12:46If you're going to fail in this hypothesis, in this test, that's
- 12:49OK. We're going to learn something.
- 12:50We're going to execute. It is always a process.
- 12:53And I would love to fail very early in the process to have
- 12:57more hypothesis instead of, you know, that I'm not failing that
- 13:02failure. Build resilience as well.
- 13:05Yeah, You. One of the things you said that
- 13:07stuck out to me was I get to take, you know, credit for all
- 13:10the losses pretty much, and all the failures, but none of the
- 13:13credit for the things that are working and that will help my
- 13:17team feel like an owner of the business, which is so important.
- 13:21Why does it work that way? Because The thing is, you need
- 13:24to understand you're not running a competition.
- 13:27It's not like you are getting all the trophies for yourself
- 13:30and you're you're pumping yourself every day that you
- 13:33know, I'm, I'm the genius here. You know, I see this was my
- 13:36decision and it worked. No, you know, so you're running
- 13:41a company and and that's OK. You know, you're going to give
- 13:45credit to other people and if something fail, you're going to
- 13:48say, you know, probably I overlook, you know that thing
- 13:52and that's OK. We're going to move forward with
- 13:55this thing and this is how people are going to see that.
- 13:58Actually, I'm owning the, you know, those things as well and
- 14:02my efforts are appreciated here. You know, that's the biggest
- 14:06thing in any team. You know, it's not about winning
- 14:10and losing, it's the process and, and the effort, you know,
- 14:14when people are going to make and eventually you're going to,
- 14:17you're going to succeed because think about, you know, a game
- 14:20theory as well. Like, you know, if, if you are
- 14:23just winning all the time, what's going to happen?
- 14:26You know, you're going to lose big time one time and you're not
- 14:30going to have the resilience and, and, and you know, the
- 14:32emotional detachment on those things and you're going to fail.
- 14:35Like psychologically, you're never going to come back, you
- 14:38know, again. So I, I think this is, this is,
- 14:41this is the interaction you're going to have.
- 14:43It does not mean that we are promoting that you need to make
- 14:46bad decisions. No, we are not promoting this.
- 14:50What we are doing is creating a process where, you know, we are
- 14:53evaluating our, our judgement, our hypothesis, our, our
- 14:57processes all the time to find, you know, demise.
- 15:01You mentioned resilience and it's such AI love the word in so
- 15:04many ways because of how important it is as a founder and
- 15:07just building the resilience when things are challenging,
- 15:11people leave, customers get bad feed, but whatever it is, right?
- 15:14It's resilience. It's so important.
- 15:16How do you build resilience when you're starting out or just
- 15:20haven't faced the adversity yet? I'll give you my personal
- 15:24patron. So each time, and this is
- 15:27actually resilience that the failure or those blunders were,
- 15:32you know, in my journey was the best thing happened to me.
- 15:35I have this, this, this characteristics where if
- 15:39something going to happen and let's suppose you lost client,
- 15:43you know, your server is down for a few hours and you lost so
- 15:47much money. Your, your, your campaign is
- 15:49failed. So I'm a human.
- 15:52I'm not expecting myself that I'm not going to get, you know,
- 15:55emotional outburst, you know, not on the team, but I'm going
- 15:59to probably go away from the computer screen and having, you
- 16:02know, some, some, some some emotional thing.
- 16:05But after probably 15 to 20 minutes, half an hour Max, I
- 16:09going to come back. I going to say, you know what,
- 16:12if we fail X, we need to gain X + Y.
- 16:17You know, we're going to do it again.
- 16:19And this is something build a Better Business always for
- 16:23myself. So one time, you know, we have,
- 16:25we have lost in a whole campaign.
- 16:27I said it doesn't matter. So I stopped the screen screen.
- 16:31I just, you know, went outside, walked for 10-15 minutes, came
- 16:35back and I said, you know what, I need to see the why we failed
- 16:39and that's building or something.
- 16:41And actually that that was the thing that I was building
- 16:44several business within the business.
- 16:46Because each time, you know, those was the trigger, like all
- 16:50those blenders were the trigger to analyse more deeply and
- 16:54execute more professionally to build something else.
- 16:57But this is what you know, you need to do as as a, as a
- 17:01founder, you cannot just say, you know, Oh no, I'm not going
- 17:04to have emotion. You're going to have emotions.
- 17:06You know, if you want to cry, you can cry as well.
- 17:09Doesn't matter, you know, but 30 minutes Max.
- 17:15Wow, I love that you're working with tons of different companies
- 17:19right now and I'd love to hear you're the, I feel like the
- 17:22landscape is changing rapidly, especially obviously with AI
- 17:27just but the market as a whole. And I'm curious, what are you
- 17:30seeing work? What are you seeing not work
- 17:32like? What's changing in the
- 17:34marketplace and what's top of mind as you work with all these
- 17:36different companies? I think there is too much noise
- 17:39right now because AI is also changing so much, you know, like
- 17:45you will have work on platform and then that that from is is
- 17:48launching another feature in next, you know, two months and
- 17:53then you know, many other solutions are coming.
- 17:56So I think there is too much noise.
- 17:58I think you need to take a strategic look on AI, like how
- 18:02you can build your company on AI instead of, you know, focusing
- 18:07on AI as a technology. If you're running an e-commerce
- 18:10business, you are in in the different business.
- 18:12You need to use AI to make your business more effective,
- 18:18productive, efficient. This is all it is.
- 18:21You know, it's like a Coca-Cola. You know the Coca-Cola is not
- 18:25there in the refrigeration business GE built, you know the
- 18:28refrigerator and Coca-Cola utilize it.
- 18:31And this is what you need to think about it.
- 18:33You know how you can utilize, you know, AI to build a
- 18:39different workflows, different automations, how to hireright
- 18:43people, how to hire, you know, good consultant tools, platforms
- 18:49and how you can define a next level or next generation of your
- 18:54company or whatever your next iteration of of everything.
- 18:58But eventually it's going to change And, and in my opinion,
- 19:01I'm talking to my, but in my opinion, this is the best time
- 19:05for e-commerce businesses to start and grow.
- 19:10I stopped by only commerce business in 2017.
- 19:14Now I'm thinking again to starting with another e-commerce
- 19:17business. This is the best time because I
- 19:20can automate them everything and without hiding the 5000 people,
- 19:26I can do you know, maybe 7010 people and I can build the same
- 19:30business. If we make it practical, I mean,
- 19:33what are the biggest automations or impacts specifically for AI
- 19:39that you've seen that are real game changers that didn't exist
- 19:43345 years ago? Yeah, so data is 1 because AI
- 19:48can read your reports and give you more in depth analysis
- 19:53instead of you know someone else presenting to you.
- 19:58We are doing great. It doesn't work that way.
- 20:02You can create complex sets of now data analytics report as
- 20:07well because AI can give you more strategic view on on
- 20:11customer life cycle. This is the first thing.
- 20:16So once you have write, write data, then you need to think,
- 20:20you know about the execution within every team, like
- 20:23marketing team performance, marketing team operations,
- 20:26customer service, project management, product itself.
- 20:31And this is where you know you're going to start.
- 20:33And you don't need to start too big.
- 20:35You just need to start, you know, few automation and that's
- 20:38all you know, and Start learning and start stacking things up and
- 20:41up and up. In six months, 8 months, you
- 20:44know you are going to be an AI driven company.
- 20:47People need training as well. So give them, you know,
- 20:49resources and training and some space within the time that if
- 20:53they are working 8 hours, let them work five hours.
- 20:56Learn something, give them, you know, something to learn, some
- 20:59budget, you know, you need to have for the failures as well.
- 21:02As I said, you know, you cannot just say I'm buying this tool
- 21:06and make sure you are using this tool.
- 21:07Maybe this tool is not your, you're going to say after one
- 21:10month, no, it's not working. You need to find something else.
- 21:13So you need to have, you know, these these kind of things as
- 21:15well. There's a new AI tool every 5
- 21:18minutes right now, right? And there does this and it does
- 21:21that and it's better than this and it's faster and it works in
- 21:24the whatever. I mean, there's you name it.
- 21:26How do you think about using AI to truly drive my business
- 21:30forward, automate things, save me time, help grow revenue, and
- 21:35try out all these different tools because it feels like a
- 21:39full time job to even keep up with what's going on?
- 21:42Actually, you don't need to. You just need to define, you
- 21:45know, what my operations, you know, obstacles are and where I
- 21:50can utilize AI. So you need to take one thing at
- 21:53a time. You cannot because the, the
- 21:56people in the business on the, on the platform side, on the AI
- 22:00side and the people who are running, you know, this
- 22:03business, they need to handshake at one point.
- 22:06And realistically, you cannot just supply 100 tools, you know,
- 22:09tomorrow. You just need to take a couple
- 22:11of tools. Like I'm, I'm, I'm very much
- 22:14into automation, but I have like 3-4 subscription only.
- 22:19I'm not crazy, you know, paying for the subscription because I
- 22:22can if I cannot utilize the tool, what's the point of having
- 22:2520 tools like going to app solo and bind, you know, every damn
- 22:29AI tool for cheap for lifetime access.
- 22:32No. Why?
- 22:34You know. What are those top tools that
- 22:36you're using right now? The top AI ones.
- 22:38I'm I'm too much into clot before I was using chat GDP, but
- 22:43I use both to validate and invalidate both.
- 22:46So think about, you know, I have two strategic head.
- 22:49So someone said this is a great idea.
- 22:51I said, OK, what do you think about this great idea?
- 22:53I said, no, these are some flaws.
- 22:54And I said, OK, this is, this is the feedback I got from another
- 22:58strategic head. So they are fighting, you know,
- 23:01so I, OK, let them fight. You know, this is one thing I,
- 23:04I, I have fun with, you know, with AI, I'm using those tools.
- 23:08I'm using some tools for creatives as well, but with
- 23:15caution because AI creative people can pick in a very
- 23:19quickly. I mean, people that you need to
- 23:22have the creative directions and creative, you know, brand design
- 23:26or something and then use the AI instead of asking AI to use in
- 23:29all these fake hypothetical fantasy images and people going
- 23:34to start hating those images. Then I'm using, you know, some
- 23:37product management small stuff as well, some voice over these
- 23:41kind of things for the clients. But mostly, you know, these are
- 23:45these are the things that I'm using.
- 23:46How do you think about creating businesses that are sustainable
- 23:52proof or they're not going to be wiped off the face of the planet
- 23:56by AI, cloud, open AI, Google? I mean, these companies are
- 24:00building so fast and they're building so much.
- 24:03How do you create a business that is going to stand the test
- 24:06of time given how fast things are innovating?
- 24:09I'm going to have my own bias because I am in e-commerce
- 24:11mostly D2C and B2C. They're not.
- 24:15They're not going to fail. Any consumer product not going
- 24:19to fail. So instead of thinking about AI,
- 24:21think about human. Humans are the consumer.
- 24:25So you know, if humans are consuming your product, you
- 24:28don't need to worry about AI. You know they're going to use
- 24:30your product anyways. But yes, for many tools and many
- 24:35solutions, many platform, what human are are using, probably
- 24:39they're going to abandon, you know, it's always in the horses
- 24:42versus car. And that's how it is.
- 24:44You know, if you're selling horses, think about, you know,
- 24:47that use the technology to sell the cars.
- 24:49The idea is saying you're commuting from, you know, A to
- 24:53B. So before we were using, you
- 24:55know, 100 years ago, we are using horses, we started using
- 24:58cars. And then how we start, you know,
- 25:02all this automation and technology and everything.
- 25:05But at the end, you are the business of devices.
- 25:09You know, you're going to be fine.
- 25:11So you need to always think about the vision instead of you
- 25:14know your, your execution thing. You know what you're offering.
- 25:17Or music is a very good example, from vinyl to new cassette to CD
- 25:23to downloadables to Spotify music.
- 25:28If you are in music industry, you're fine.
- 25:31But if you're in wild industry, no, you're in museum now.
- 25:35Right, right. Last topic I want to hit on
- 25:38before we wrap up is we talked about passion and being a
- 25:43driving force in as an entrepreneur.
- 25:46I know you have lots of thoughts on this so really just want to
- 25:50start by opening the floor. And what are your thoughts on on
- 25:53passion in as an entrepreneur? Yeah, as an entrepreneur, you
- 25:56need to have a passion to start with.
- 25:58But remember all the businesses are very boring and it has to be
- 26:03boring if you're in the excitement more all the time,
- 26:08you're not going to work on on on the task you have.
- 26:12So, for example, you know, if you see, you know, if let's
- 26:15suppose if you love food and you're opening a restaurant
- 26:18business, yes, you, you have passion about food and all the
- 26:23people serving. But the whole process of running
- 26:26a restaurant business is very damn boring.
- 26:29From buying, you know, stuff and cooking and serving and you
- 26:33know, getting bad feedback and even you're saying thank you,
- 26:37Sir, it's a very boring process. So passion could be a driving
- 26:41force. If you be very realistic about
- 26:44that, starting a business would be a very boring endeavor.
- 26:49And most of the time the boring businesses are the great
- 26:51businesses because people do not think about those business.
- 26:54Everyone thinks about fashion, everything's about travel and
- 26:58these kind of business. But think about, you know, if
- 27:00someone is making saving fan, you know, what is the passion
- 27:06about making sailing fan? You know, all the motors and,
- 27:10and these kind of things, but they're making good money, you
- 27:13know, So you need to have a balance between you need, you
- 27:16need to passionate about, you know, what you deliver, but the
- 27:20process of having business is, is boring.
- 27:23And you need to accept the reality that, you know, I'm
- 27:26going to get bored. I need to have this mindset that
- 27:29I'm going to have long hours. I'm going to have bad days and
- 27:32good days, but at the end if my customers are saying, Brett, you
- 27:37are a great guy, that's all matter.
- 27:40You know, that's the passion part.
- 27:44How do I get comfortable as an entrepreneur with Yeah, it's
- 27:48going to be boring to run my business.
- 27:50This is what it is, you know, so start a business and you're
- 27:54going to see, you know, how, how quickly and your agent you know,
- 28:00so it's supporting. So that's the thing.
- 28:04But but you need to enjoy everyday working.
- 28:08If you are enjoying everyday working, that's all matters.
- 28:12And but it is it is going to be boring.
- 28:15Hiring process is a very boring process.
- 28:17People management is a very boring process.
- 28:20Getting bad feedback is a very boring, you know, process all
- 28:26these things, you know, if your best employees are leaving you
- 28:29or maybe you know, you need to try to negotiate and people are
- 28:33not understanding your point of view.
- 28:36It's not easy, but these are the realities you know.
- 28:41I've seen thank you so much for your time and expertise.
- 28:44If people want to find you, work with you, maybe even, you know,
- 28:48an opportunity to share what you're working on a little bit
- 28:51more, the floor is yours. So my website I have agency
- 28:55website which is E com expedition and my personal
- 28:59website is asking colleague.com, myfirstandlastname.com.
- 29:04And yeah, I'm right now I'm working more on on the system
- 29:09instead of Band-Aid fixing, you know, on the business side.
- 29:13So I'm trying to build a system where either people can
- 29:16implement themselves or I can have ready minimum consulting
- 29:21hours with them. Because at this point I think,
- 29:24you know, I need to have more impact.
- 29:27So that's why I'm building system, you know, that's all.
- 29:32Awesome. All right, we'll include those
- 29:33links in the show notes as well, so people can find them really
- 29:36easily as seen. Thanks so much for your time,
- 29:38energy, expertise, really interesting conversation.
- 29:40And yeah, appreciate you. Thank you.