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Alex Mehr

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
701 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
647: Tai Lopez Owns 50% of $89/mo MentorBox.com, 800 Units, $80k In Initial Test for Self Help Box with CEO Alex Mehr

It's funny.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
647: Tai Lopez Owns 50% of $89/mo MentorBox.com, 800 Units, $80k In Initial Test for Self Help Box with CEO Alex Mehr

I get that question.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
647: Tai Lopez Owns 50% of $89/mo MentorBox.com, 800 Units, $80k In Initial Test for Self Help Box with CEO Alex Mehr

I've gotten that question so many times.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
647: Tai Lopez Owns 50% of $89/mo MentorBox.com, 800 Units, $80k In Initial Test for Self Help Box with CEO Alex Mehr

It never got ugly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
647: Tai Lopez Owns 50% of $89/mo MentorBox.com, 800 Units, $80k In Initial Test for Self Help Box with CEO Alex Mehr

We worked together for seven or eight years, and we are massively different personalities.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
647: Tai Lopez Owns 50% of $89/mo MentorBox.com, 800 Units, $80k In Initial Test for Self Help Box with CEO Alex Mehr

My co-founder, Cheyenne, is more of an engineer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
647: Tai Lopez Owns 50% of $89/mo MentorBox.com, 800 Units, $80k In Initial Test for Self Help Box with CEO Alex Mehr

I am more of a creative business person.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
647: Tai Lopez Owns 50% of $89/mo MentorBox.com, 800 Units, $80k In Initial Test for Self Help Box with CEO Alex Mehr

But what happened is basically I think the key to us being able to work together was we kind of had different โ€“

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
647: Tai Lopez Owns 50% of $89/mo MentorBox.com, 800 Units, $80k In Initial Test for Self Help Box with CEO Alex Mehr

uh, sort of like domain expertise and we respected each other's domain expertise.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
647: Tai Lopez Owns 50% of $89/mo MentorBox.com, 800 Units, $80k In Initial Test for Self Help Box with CEO Alex Mehr

So we defer to the other person.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
647: Tai Lopez Owns 50% of $89/mo MentorBox.com, 800 Units, $80k In Initial Test for Self Help Box with CEO Alex Mehr

It was business strategy versus, you know, I mean, an engineering called both of us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
647: Tai Lopez Owns 50% of $89/mo MentorBox.com, 800 Units, $80k In Initial Test for Self Help Box with CEO Alex Mehr

knew about the other domain, but we knew that also the other person is better at that particular field.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
647: Tai Lopez Owns 50% of $89/mo MentorBox.com, 800 Units, $80k In Initial Test for Self Help Box with CEO Alex Mehr

So, you know, that's how we work together.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
647: Tai Lopez Owns 50% of $89/mo MentorBox.com, 800 Units, $80k In Initial Test for Self Help Box with CEO Alex Mehr

It worked very well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
647: Tai Lopez Owns 50% of $89/mo MentorBox.com, 800 Units, $80k In Initial Test for Self Help Box with CEO Alex Mehr

So one of the things that, yeah, sure.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
647: Tai Lopez Owns 50% of $89/mo MentorBox.com, 800 Units, $80k In Initial Test for Self Help Box with CEO Alex Mehr

So we brought in a new CEO.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
647: Tai Lopez Owns 50% of $89/mo MentorBox.com, 800 Units, $80k In Initial Test for Self Help Box with CEO Alex Mehr

Actually, he was at the time a CFO and COO of the company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
647: Tai Lopez Owns 50% of $89/mo MentorBox.com, 800 Units, $80k In Initial Test for Self Help Box with CEO Alex Mehr

And the direction that the company had to go at that moment of time was we had grown it really rapidly all the way to 2014, but the company was not profitable.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
647: Tai Lopez Owns 50% of $89/mo MentorBox.com, 800 Units, $80k In Initial Test for Self Help Box with CEO Alex Mehr

Not a lot.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
647: Tai Lopez Owns 50% of $89/mo MentorBox.com, 800 Units, $80k In Initial Test for Self Help Box with CEO Alex Mehr

I want to say maybe 10 million.