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Brad Sugars

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931 total appearances

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Digital Social Hour
Bradley Sugars: There Are No Billion-Dollar Companies (Here’s Why) | DSH #1712

A good buddy of mine here in Vegas, massive photographer all across the world, Peter Lick.

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Bradley Sugars: There Are No Billion-Dollar Companies (Here’s Why) | DSH #1712

And I remember going when Lick was running his own company and he said to me, Sugars, what am I going to do?

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Bradley Sugars: There Are No Billion-Dollar Companies (Here’s Why) | DSH #1712

And I just asked him a question.

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Bradley Sugars: There Are No Billion-Dollar Companies (Here’s Why) | DSH #1712

I said, Lick, how many hours or days or years have you spent learning how to be the best photographer in the world?

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Bradley Sugars: There Are No Billion-Dollar Companies (Here’s Why) | DSH #1712

He's the best landscape photographer in the world by a mile, right?

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Bradley Sugars: There Are No Billion-Dollar Companies (Here’s Why) | DSH #1712

Top picture sold for $8 million.

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Bradley Sugars: There Are No Billion-Dollar Companies (Here’s Why) | DSH #1712

So you think about that, and then you go, I asked him a second question.

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Bradley Sugars: There Are No Billion-Dollar Companies (Here’s Why) | DSH #1712

How many days, weeks, years, months have you spent learning how to be a good CEO?

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Bradley Sugars: There Are No Billion-Dollar Companies (Here’s Why) | DSH #1712

He said, none.

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Bradley Sugars: There Are No Billion-Dollar Companies (Here’s Why) | DSH #1712

I said, good, employ a CEO.

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Bradley Sugars: There Are No Billion-Dollar Companies (Here’s Why) | DSH #1712

So his CEO runs the business.

Digital Social Hour
Bradley Sugars: There Are No Billion-Dollar Companies (Here’s Why) | DSH #1712

Lick goes and does the photography.

Digital Social Hour
Bradley Sugars: There Are No Billion-Dollar Companies (Here’s Why) | DSH #1712

Sometimes you got to be Sean Kelly, the podcast guy, and let other people run the business.

Digital Social Hour
Bradley Sugars: There Are No Billion-Dollar Companies (Here’s Why) | DSH #1712

And sometimes you got to be the guy that says, you know what?

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Bradley Sugars: There Are No Billion-Dollar Companies (Here’s Why) | DSH #1712

I'm not the CEO of my companies.

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Bradley Sugars: There Are No Billion-Dollar Companies (Here’s Why) | DSH #1712

See, the difference between a millionaire and a billionaire is pretty simple.

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Bradley Sugars: There Are No Billion-Dollar Companies (Here’s Why) | DSH #1712

Now, I'm not a billionaire yet.

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Bradley Sugars: There Are No Billion-Dollar Companies (Here’s Why) | DSH #1712

I'm a billionaire in training, hence the title of my book.

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Bradley Sugars: There Are No Billion-Dollar Companies (Here’s Why) | DSH #1712

But when you look at it, the millionaire wants to be the CEO.

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Bradley Sugars: There Are No Billion-Dollar Companies (Here’s Why) | DSH #1712

The billionaire employs CEOs.