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Re: YouTube channels for entrepreneurs

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Post by willholloway »

jsudhams wrote: post #15
ploggingdev wrote: post #13

All of the pep talk type Youtube channels that OP mentions (Gary Vee, Mark Cuban etc), they push (IMO) a wrong idea of startups : they all say you should work 16 hours a day, bare minimum sleep, hustle and grind (god, those words make me cringe). That advice completely ignores health and general well being, which is essential if you're in it for the long haul. Anyway, this list seems interesting. Thanks OP for compil…

Agree with this. If founder cannot make work this without loosing sleep and enough rest. 1. Can they take sound decisions? Is there any datapoint on this. i.e. List of companies gone south due to this specific type of working 2. How will they build the team with this kind of culture? 3. If they value these for themselves would they value it for employees / customers?

It's not about short-term masochism, it's about focus.

The human brain is non-scalable neural network.It only has so much bandwidth. The things that create/capture enough value to make big money are almost always non-trivial/hard. Market forces are the reason for that. There is a lot of competition by smart, driven people for the relatively scarce economically viable applications of technology within current market conditions.

And resources will be scarce, help will be scarce, an unending line of people will either want what you have secured or want to destory you via regulation or lawsuits.

Your employees will definitely not care as much as you do, and can get disgruntled and cause bad trouble. It's really best to move through the business world thinking everyone is out to get you. Only the liability paranoid survive.

So for those reasons and more, if you focus on more than health + your business, you are likely to get eaten by someone else who isn't spreading his or her focus as much.

Re: YouTube channels for entrepreneurs

#52

Post by Swizec »

kristianc wrote: post #37
callmeed wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think that's true. Gary Vee has said things like that in the past but more recently said he devotes weekends to family, sleeps more, and vacations more[0]. Tim Ferris literally got famous from a book titled "The 4 Hour Work-week" . Mark Cuban is frankly on a different level (the 3 comma club really is different IMO). Hustle and grind are traits not mutually exclusive from being healthy. I'll go so far as to p…

Everything I've seen from GaryVee recently has been along the lines of "you're not doing enough work." Last week he told someone who took a weekend off that that was more time than he had taken off for his entire twenties. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRj144Gd7EA

Keyword: "his entire twenties"

I don't know where I read it, but I like the idea of life stages. When you're in your 20's, hustle and grind and work a lot. You will never have as few obligations and as much energy as you do when you're young.

Take advantage of youth.

But if you're a 40-something with 3 kids and spend 16 hours a day grinding and working, and no time spending time with your family ... don't. Slow down.

A lot of GaryVee's advice is aimed at people who have few responsibilities and obligations in life and spend 5 hours every day watching TV or playing video games and complain that success doesn't come. Yeah, obviously it doesn't. Work harder.

If you're already working harder, you're not GaryVee's audience. How do you even have time to watch his stuff? ;)

Re: YouTube channels for entrepreneurs

#53

Post by [deleted] »

justboxing wrote: post #39
kristianc wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Everything I've seen from GaryVee recently has been along the lines of "you're not doing enough work." Last week he told someone who took a weekend off that that was more time than he had taken off for his entire twenties. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRj144Gd7EA

Thanks so much for this video. Not a millennial, but I got a lot out of it. Especially this part where he checks the Millennial caller with something that I too am guilty of from time to time. > So you are playing a fake narrative instead of putting in the actual work that's needed to actually pull it off. > Wishing instead of Executing.

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Re: YouTube channels for entrepreneurs

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Post by bkmartin »

gcav wrote: post #23
karimdag wrote: post #12

I've got a question for you guys! What do you think of Gary Vaynerchuck ?

I recall one interview (will look for link) where Gary was asked if he would have followed someone like himself when he was getting started. I remember his answer to be a definite "no". He explained that he was and remains too busy with his business to follow other business gurus. Of course, after hearing this I realized my folly. For me he remains inspiring and charismatic even if his content is (self-admitted) unne…

^This - It is totally true. Lately he has talked a lot about people asking him for permission. They are basically looking for someone to come along and kick them in the arse and tell them to get to work. I used to consume almost everything he put out, but any more I've heard most of what I need from him. I'm in "do" mode now, so not much time for it. Most content is just background noise while I work these days.

Re: YouTube channels for entrepreneurs

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Post by Ghostium »

fwn wrote: post #31

I'd love to make a project to sum up every TED talk in 140 charaters. This way one could consume their whole set of ideas worth spreading in under an hour.

Maybe they don't cover all talks, I haven't look into that, but I used the book summary feature quite alot.

https://www.getabstract.com/en/summaries/video-talks-lib/

Re: YouTube channels for entrepreneurs

#56

Post by omginternets »

AshWills wrote: post #36
goodJobWalrus wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"document rather than create" what does this mean?

Document your journey and be yourself rather than trying to create story lines and a "persona". Gary Vee Quote: "In very simple terms, “documenting” versus “creating” is what The Real World and the Kardashians is to Star Wars and Friends. And don’t get confused—just because you’re “documenting” doesn’t mean you’re not creating content. It’s just a version of creating that is predicated more on practicality instead of…

To add to your explanation: part of the idea is that you should be outputting a lot of product. The twist is that you don't have to be the one who creates it.

The example he gives (for vloggers) is to do a lot of collaboration projects in which you host others on your site. I think one can find analogues in other business models without too much difficulty.

Re: YouTube channels for entrepreneurs

#57

Post by iamacynic »

willholloway wrote: post #51
jsudhams wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agree with this. If founder cannot make work this without loosing sleep and enough rest. 1. Can they take sound decisions? Is there any datapoint on this. i.e. List of companies gone south due to this specific type of working 2. How will they build the team with this kind of culture? 3. If they value these for themselves would they value it for employees / customers?

It's not about short-term masochism, it's about focus. The human brain is non-scalable neural network.It only has so much bandwidth. The things that create/capture enough value to make big money are almost always non-trivial/hard. Market forces are the reason for that. There is a lot of competition by smart, driven people for the relatively scarce economically viable applications of technology within current market c…

> It's really best to move through the business world thinking everyone is out to get you

i agree, but a more useful way of thinking is that everyone is looking out for themselves, and can be expected to act exactly in that manner. you getting got is usually a side effect of someone else getting theirs through unethical means.

Re: YouTube channels for entrepreneurs

#58

Post by robmaister »

kristianc wrote: post #37
callmeed wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think that's true. Gary Vee has said things like that in the past but more recently said he devotes weekends to family, sleeps more, and vacations more[0]. Tim Ferris literally got famous from a book titled "The 4 Hour Work-week" . Mark Cuban is frankly on a different level (the 3 comma club really is different IMO). Hustle and grind are traits not mutually exclusive from being healthy. I'll go so far as to p…

Everything I've seen from GaryVee recently has been along the lines of "you're not doing enough work." Last week he told someone who took a weekend off that that was more time than he had taken off for his entire twenties. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRj144Gd7EA

Having consumed a decent amount of his content, there's a bit of context to this - if you're complaining about not being successful as an entrepreneur, you're not doing enough work. He has said before that if you want to work 9-5 and find good work-life balance, then that's great and you should do that and that there's nothing wrong with it.

I honestly don't believe that he took less than a weekend off during his entire twenties. The way that statement comes across to me is hyperbole used to drive home the main point of "stop complaining and trying to look successful, and start working".

At ~12:50 he also says "it's okay to enjoy a little bit now too" and that the advice he'd give to himself at 25 is "go have fun". He tends to provide more realistic advice than a lot of other people who produce this type of content, at least from what I've seen.

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