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Learning early selling, marketing and charging for stuff
41:20 - 49:48 (08:28)
A childhood with frequent troublemaking paved the way for learning marketing, selling, and charging for things in life, and that's something deficient in the tech industry today, where many companies give away free products.
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The speaker got into a lot of trouble in junior high to the point where their parents had to pick them up from the police station.
41:20 - 44:26 (03:06)
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The speaker got into a lot of trouble in junior high to the point where their parents had to pick them up from the police station. They cried so hard once that they almost couldn't breathe.
ChapterLearning early selling, marketing and charging for stuff
Episode#329: Jason Fried — How to Live Life on Your Own Terms
PodcastThe Tim Ferriss Show
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, shares about his childhood experience of running a business selling knives to friends and creating his own product catalogs using xerox copies of pages from other catalogs.
44:26 - 46:47 (02:20)
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Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, shares about his childhood experience of running a business selling knives to friends and creating his own product catalogs using xerox copies of pages from other catalogs.
ChapterLearning early selling, marketing and charging for stuff
Episode#329: Jason Fried — How to Live Life on Your Own Terms
PodcastThe Tim Ferriss Show
Entrepreneurship was always in Jason Fried's blood as he started selling knives at the age of 13, which set him on the path of learning how to sell, market, and promote products.
46:47 - 49:48 (03:01)
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Entrepreneurship was always in Jason Fried's blood as he started selling knives at the age of 13, which set him on the path of learning how to sell, market, and promote products. His experiences of selling items from illegal to legal finally led him to establish Basecamp, which carries the same principles he learned as a young boy.