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Cameron Herold

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Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Unleashing Entrepreneurial Success with Cameron Herold: Vision, Leadership, and Personal Growth

And I think for the normal person that wants to be an entrepreneur, yes, unless you can get into the Stanford and you can even get like a, maybe you can get like a scholarship to be there. That, that one might make sense. But if you're going to be an entrepreneur, I think you'd be better off going and apprenticing for four different companies, taking minimum wage.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Unleashing Entrepreneurial Success with Cameron Herold: Vision, Leadership, and Personal Growth

And here's what my son did with his apprentice. He said, look, I'm going to work for you for free for four months. but I want to be able to sit in on finance meetings, marketing meetings, sales meetings, board meetings, leadership team meetings.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Unleashing Entrepreneurial Success with Cameron Herold: Vision, Leadership, and Personal Growth

And here's what my son did with his apprentice. He said, look, I'm going to work for you for free for four months. but I want to be able to sit in on finance meetings, marketing meetings, sales meetings, board meetings, leadership team meetings.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Unleashing Entrepreneurial Success with Cameron Herold: Vision, Leadership, and Personal Growth

And here's what my son did with his apprentice. He said, look, I'm going to work for you for free for four months. but I want to be able to sit in on finance meetings, marketing meetings, sales meetings, board meetings, leadership team meetings.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Unleashing Entrepreneurial Success with Cameron Herold: Vision, Leadership, and Personal Growth

I want to sit in the corner of the room and I want you to allow me to observe stuff for two hours a day and work for six hours a day and I'll do it for free." And they said, yes. So he really came out of that with a real world MBA after four months. That's the style of learning that I think, and then go online, do online courses, watch videos. I think you can learn as much

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Unleashing Entrepreneurial Success with Cameron Herold: Vision, Leadership, and Personal Growth

I want to sit in the corner of the room and I want you to allow me to observe stuff for two hours a day and work for six hours a day and I'll do it for free." And they said, yes. So he really came out of that with a real world MBA after four months. That's the style of learning that I think, and then go online, do online courses, watch videos. I think you can learn as much

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Unleashing Entrepreneurial Success with Cameron Herold: Vision, Leadership, and Personal Growth

I want to sit in the corner of the room and I want you to allow me to observe stuff for two hours a day and work for six hours a day and I'll do it for free." And they said, yes. So he really came out of that with a real world MBA after four months. That's the style of learning that I think, and then go online, do online courses, watch videos. I think you can learn as much

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Unleashing Entrepreneurial Success with Cameron Herold: Vision, Leadership, and Personal Growth

as going to do a general VA.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Unleashing Entrepreneurial Success with Cameron Herold: Vision, Leadership, and Personal Growth

as going to do a general VA.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Unleashing Entrepreneurial Success with Cameron Herold: Vision, Leadership, and Personal Growth

as going to do a general VA.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Unleashing Entrepreneurial Success with Cameron Herold: Vision, Leadership, and Personal Growth

Yeah. I gave him introductions to a number of different companies, but he set up his own interviews, set up his own videos. Yeah. I didn't say go hire my kid. He kind of talked his way in those doors for sure. But I definitely gave him some introductions. The one that he landed in the UK, he did all on his own.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Unleashing Entrepreneurial Success with Cameron Herold: Vision, Leadership, and Personal Growth

Yeah. I gave him introductions to a number of different companies, but he set up his own interviews, set up his own videos. Yeah. I didn't say go hire my kid. He kind of talked his way in those doors for sure. But I definitely gave him some introductions. The one that he landed in the UK, he did all on his own.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Unleashing Entrepreneurial Success with Cameron Herold: Vision, Leadership, and Personal Growth

Yeah. I gave him introductions to a number of different companies, but he set up his own interviews, set up his own videos. Yeah. I didn't say go hire my kid. He kind of talked his way in those doors for sure. But I definitely gave him some introductions. The one that he landed in the UK, he did all on his own.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Unleashing Entrepreneurial Success with Cameron Herold: Vision, Leadership, and Personal Growth

He found a guy in the UK that ran a student promotions business, which is what he does in Montreal, and ran a digital marketing agency, sent the guy some videos, scraped a bunch of LinkedIn emails from this guy's entire leadership team, sent it off to 12 people at the company, and they said, look, hire this kid. So that was all him. Yeah.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Unleashing Entrepreneurial Success with Cameron Herold: Vision, Leadership, and Personal Growth

He found a guy in the UK that ran a student promotions business, which is what he does in Montreal, and ran a digital marketing agency, sent the guy some videos, scraped a bunch of LinkedIn emails from this guy's entire leadership team, sent it off to 12 people at the company, and they said, look, hire this kid. So that was all him. Yeah.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Unleashing Entrepreneurial Success with Cameron Herold: Vision, Leadership, and Personal Growth

He found a guy in the UK that ran a student promotions business, which is what he does in Montreal, and ran a digital marketing agency, sent the guy some videos, scraped a bunch of LinkedIn emails from this guy's entire leadership team, sent it off to 12 people at the company, and they said, look, hire this kid. So that was all him. Yeah.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Unleashing Entrepreneurial Success with Cameron Herold: Vision, Leadership, and Personal Growth

Well, and Tim, you know, Tim Ferriss, I've been friends with Tim since 2008. Tim decided to not do his MBA because it was going to cost him $250,000 of actual cash and opportunity costs. So he earmarked $250,000 of his own money and invested $25,000 in 10 different companies back in 2008, 2009. as a way to get a board seat or an advisor seat or to be able to sit in the room.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Unleashing Entrepreneurial Success with Cameron Herold: Vision, Leadership, and Personal Growth

Well, and Tim, you know, Tim Ferriss, I've been friends with Tim since 2008. Tim decided to not do his MBA because it was going to cost him $250,000 of actual cash and opportunity costs. So he earmarked $250,000 of his own money and invested $25,000 in 10 different companies back in 2008, 2009. as a way to get a board seat or an advisor seat or to be able to sit in the room.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Unleashing Entrepreneurial Success with Cameron Herold: Vision, Leadership, and Personal Growth

Well, and Tim, you know, Tim Ferriss, I've been friends with Tim since 2008. Tim decided to not do his MBA because it was going to cost him $250,000 of actual cash and opportunity costs. So he earmarked $250,000 of his own money and invested $25,000 in 10 different companies back in 2008, 2009. as a way to get a board seat or an advisor seat or to be able to sit in the room.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Unleashing Entrepreneurial Success with Cameron Herold: Vision, Leadership, and Personal Growth

So it was like, I'll invest 25,000 in Evernote, but let me come to some meetings. I'll invest 25,000 in Twitter, but let me come. So he bought his MBA by, so I think, no, I don't think it's too old. I think you should have to be creative, which is what Tim did.