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#123October 14, 202054:57

#119 with Josh Elman - How To Get The Benefits of Entrepreneursh…

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Growth expert Josh Elman joins the show to discuss his legendary career as a 'joiner' at companies like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. The group explores the financial benefits of joining early-stage rocket ships, how to identify companies with 100X potential, and emerging trends in the metaverse and digital health.

Episode Description

Sam Parr (@theSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) are joined by Josh Elman (@joshelman) on the pod today. Elman is a veteran of LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and Robinhood to name a few. This guy knows Silicon Valley and growth better than anyone else. In today’s episode you’ll hear: Shaan asks Josh to give his background (1:00), Sam asks if it’s better to start your own thing or climb your way up in a tech startup (8:25), Elman answers the question “what technology or company has that 10x or 100x potential in the next few years (9:15), Josh explains the “meta-verse” or “the third place” and how AI will lead the way there (18:15), how the TV show Black Mirror has influenced tech (24:55), Elman unpacks his time at Stanford and the power of being around intelligent people and gives some stories on his early days at Unicorn companies (31:00), Sam puts Josh on the spot and asks him how he can 10x his own business (47:35), This episode we are partnering with Square! Square makes it easy for your business to accept payment, and so much more! Check out this week's sponsor at square.com/go/hustle! Joined our private FB group yet? It's a page where people share each others million dollar ideas or what they're already working on: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ourfirstmillion.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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Key Takeaways

1

The 'Joiner' path to wealth involves finding companies that have already found product-market fit but still have 10X to 100X growth potential remaining.

2

Every professional role produces a specific 'artifact'—for a CEO it is the organizational chart, for an engineer it is the code, and for a product manager it is the user journey framework.

3

Future massive tech outcomes will likely come from 'third places' like the metaverse where people spend meaningful time together online and from the digitization of genomics and health data.

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Duration54:57
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