Chris Koerner
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Yeah, hopefully.
And two of my kids are introverts, two are extroverted, but they are selling.
Like they already have businesses, little side hustles here and there.
But I am encouraging them to go on missions and to do selling because it's the fastest way to learn.
It's the fastest way to test.
If I talk to 1,000 people, then I can have 1,000 different approaches.
And if my conversion rate is 0.1%, I'm going to get that to 0.5% over time because I'm able to test and iterate and pivot based on all that feedback I get.
What have you learned about team building and business partners through this process?
What advice would you give to someone who sat there alone
listening to this right now, do they need a business partner?
If they do, who, how, what?
Oh, man.
Usually people don't need a business partner.
If you look at the stats on business failure rates with companies that have co-founders, it's significantly higher than companies that have solo founders.
We see their survivorship bias examples, right?
The Apples and the
A lot of companies we can look at that had two co-founders that won, but nobody talks about or writes about the 90, 60, 80% of companies that fail with co-founders.
Think about it this way.
When we get married, we'll spend years talking about our potential plans, like big goals, like where do we want to live?
How many kids do we have?