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Brian Lee

👤 Speaker
867 total appearances

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The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE498 - Brian Lee: From Chopped to TRYKA’s 10,000-Athlete Launch

But because you're an outsider looking into that space, but you have to feel that I'm not just...

The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE498 - Brian Lee: From Chopped to TRYKA’s 10,000-Athlete Launch

shoehorned to this part of the business I'm just an ops and I don't know what marketing are doing I think operating at the level I want to operate I don't have a home for a one trick pony I want people to have strengths more so in certain areas but they have to be able to assist the rest of the business like our CTO sits in our operations meetings

The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE498 - Brian Lee: From Chopped to TRYKA’s 10,000-Athlete Launch

And some people might say that it might be a waste of their time.

The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE498 - Brian Lee: From Chopped to TRYKA’s 10,000-Athlete Launch

But I feel they will learn so much about what the business needs from a tech support point of view by being in the meetings.

The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE498 - Brian Lee: From Chopped to TRYKA’s 10,000-Athlete Launch

And it's true.

The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE498 - Brian Lee: From Chopped to TRYKA’s 10,000-Athlete Launch

It does.

The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE498 - Brian Lee: From Chopped to TRYKA’s 10,000-Athlete Launch

Especially when you're a smaller team as well.

The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE498 - Brian Lee: From Chopped to TRYKA’s 10,000-Athlete Launch

Especially when you sit to start.

The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE498 - Brian Lee: From Chopped to TRYKA’s 10,000-Athlete Launch

But also then, okay, that's very hard to do when you have a massive amount of employees.

The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE498 - Brian Lee: From Chopped to TRYKA’s 10,000-Athlete Launch

This is where we're going to bring in the tech to not have a massive amount of people.

The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE498 - Brian Lee: From Chopped to TRYKA’s 10,000-Athlete Launch

But we will create that environment within country to country.

The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE498 - Brian Lee: From Chopped to TRYKA’s 10,000-Athlete Launch

So we will create a country manager for each country that will manage those.

The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE498 - Brian Lee: From Chopped to TRYKA’s 10,000-Athlete Launch

And then we'll create that environment within there.

The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE498 - Brian Lee: From Chopped to TRYKA’s 10,000-Athlete Launch

But that all starts... When I created the last business, we focused on P&Ls, profit lines, cost savings, margin.

The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE498 - Brian Lee: From Chopped to TRYKA’s 10,000-Athlete Launch

So that built the culture organically.

The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE498 - Brian Lee: From Chopped to TRYKA’s 10,000-Athlete Launch

Before I ever knew what culture ever did,

The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE498 - Brian Lee: From Chopped to TRYKA’s 10,000-Athlete Launch

So I created a culture that I didn't like.

The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE498 - Brian Lee: From Chopped to TRYKA’s 10,000-Athlete Launch

But it's too hard, I find, to change culture.

The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE498 - Brian Lee: From Chopped to TRYKA’s 10,000-Athlete Launch

It's one of the hardest things to do in a business is to change the culture after it's set.

The Entrepreneur Experiment
EE498 - Brian Lee: From Chopped to TRYKA’s 10,000-Athlete Launch

So the one thing I focused on was protecting and building the right culture from day one.