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Beate Chelette

Beate Chelette

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
150 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 325: She Sold Her Busines to Bill Gates

And then you moved on and you came to success.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 325: She Sold Her Busines to Bill Gates

So people I believe need to hear the reality of there is

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 325: She Sold Her Busines to Bill Gates

No four hour work week.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 325: She Sold Her Busines to Bill Gates

Not if you're an entrepreneur and you're trying to make it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 325: She Sold Her Busines to Bill Gates

And there is no, no, no handing of crown jewels.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 325: She Sold Her Busines to Bill Gates

And there is no easy button until you earned the right to find that button.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 325: She Sold Her Busines to Bill Gates

Well, you know, I sort of co-founded the publishing company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 325: She Sold Her Busines to Bill Gates

It's a, it's visualist publishing, which was probably not one of my better decisions to make because publishing is a very, very difficult business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 325: She Sold Her Busines to Bill Gates

So that didn't last too long, but I achieved my goal of publishing my company with a publishing company, so to speak, because just get a, get better deals.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 325: She Sold Her Busines to Bill Gates

Um, but you know, if we are really, really truly honest, it's, it's more self-published than anything.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 325: She Sold Her Busines to Bill Gates

I want to say right now with, you know, it's only been in the low thousands, but with the book.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 325: She Sold Her Busines to Bill Gates

Yeah, something around that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 325: She Sold Her Busines to Bill Gates

But with a book, you know, there's a real reality check when you go out and you learn what it takes to publish a book.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 325: She Sold Her Busines to Bill Gates

So you have a choice, you're either going to spend a fortune in a bestseller campaign, and you go to one of the people that know what they're doing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 325: She Sold Her Busines to Bill Gates

Or you are going to use that book as a vehicle and as a business card.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 325: She Sold Her Busines to Bill Gates

for other opportunities.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 325: She Sold Her Busines to Bill Gates

And so for me, the book really was designed as much as I would have loved to have a New York Times bestseller with it or an Amazon bestseller at least.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 325: She Sold Her Busines to Bill Gates

But, you know, I felt that is a little bit dishonest to be honest with you.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 325: She Sold Her Busines to Bill Gates

I wanted to, you know, I didn't want to manipulate this.