Chapter
Overcoming Failure and Building a Successful Sales Career
09:37 - 22:34 (12:56)
The speaker talks about his failed business ventures and how he overcame a two-year period of being dead broke by persistently applying for jobs until he found a role in sales. He also shares his people skills and how he built a company by hiring college students to sell phones for him, paying his way through college doing that.
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A man reflects on the wild and exploratory behavior he engaged in growing up, before society started to really clamp down on what is considered acceptable, and recounts some of his misadventures, such as lighting gasoline on fire and collecting baseball cards for seven years.
09:37 - 13:19 (03:41)
Summary
A man reflects on the wild and exploratory behavior he engaged in growing up, before society started to really clamp down on what is considered acceptable, and recounts some of his misadventures, such as lighting gasoline on fire and collecting baseball cards for seven years.
ChapterOvercoming Failure and Building a Successful Sales Career
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PodcastThe Tim Ferriss Show
The speaker recounts how he failed in his attempts to create two different startups before finding success through door-to-door sales and eventually creating his current company.
13:19 - 22:34 (09:14)
Summary
The speaker recounts how he failed in his attempts to create two different startups before finding success through door-to-door sales and eventually creating his current company.