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Alex Smereczniak

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
758 total appearances

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Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

What did you do?

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

What was the worst thing you did?

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

Like the political polish was not there.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

Yeah, there's

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

there's no political policy.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

It's like, this is dumb.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

Even me just now is like, yeah, it sucked.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

Like I just, what's the least amount of words I can say to sum up how I felt.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

Three word description.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

The reality is it was awesome.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

I did learn a lot.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

The people I worked with were amazing.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

Some of the best people I've ever worked with.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

It just wasn't the right thing for me to do.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

And for all the reasons you mentioned, it's

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

I was always like, go, go, go.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

There's all this waste everywhere, and I hated the waste.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

I couldn't stand the waste.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

I remember two of the reasons I ended up leaving.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

One, I knew I needed to do something entrepreneurial, but the second one was I've always been like a systems kind of thinker of like, how do I gamify this so I can do the least amount of work but get the most upside?