Daryl
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360 appearances
8 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 22 Jan
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It's been wild. Whether you agree with Trump or not agree with Trump, regardless, there is change happening. There is change.
Yeah, 52% of Fortune 500 companies were started in a recession.
Why do you think that is? I love the idea of just an industry shift. I mean, and we experience many versions of recessions every day in our lives and experiencing the real world. And one of the coolest things I've learned from both of you guys is when we studied Outwitting the Devil by Napoleon Hill and how the devil, if it was like an entity, how it would control you.
And one of the best tools it would use is complacency, being stagnant, just kind of on cruise control. And so when you have these recessions, it's all cyclical. And after the recession, there's always a boom right after that. And that boom is caused by the companies directly in this example or the people that are able to figure it out and see this recession as an opportunity rather than a threat.
And we were able to figure that out in the solar industry during the sickness we might not say on the podcast, but we made a huge pivot from going from door-to-door sales to remote sales.
As an employee that went through this, from you guys being the owners and I was an employee, what I always commended and spoke about to other people that worked at other places, like friends and family, was they were always looking at, oh my gosh, what are you guys going to do? And I was like, we're going to figure it out.
And I thought it was so cool to experience it from an employee perspective of like, The way I perceived it was if we can get through this, when we get through this, this is going to provide an opportunity for myself to be like, hey, I was a part of that champion team that was able to get through. And these were the other people that were able to get through with me.
And that's going to leverage myself as a better opportunity as an employee later on down the road.
Yeah, we had so many company-wide meetings that you guys were bringing this stuff up and you guys were like, look, We don't even know what we're going to fully do in the next month or two months, but we need you guys. Like if you guys aren't here, we're going, we need to figure this out. I thought that was like really cool to experience.
And then in hindsight, you know, you fast forward one or two years down the road, you start remembering those times and it becomes like what you were talking about. Everybody loves a common enemy. When you go through a tough experience like that, it creates a bond and
And Vivint had one of the greatest stories to get through that. Being able to come to their own employees and ask for money.
What I want to highlight with that, too, is you can't wait until the recession hits to try to bring morale and culture together. Like that was fostered of years of good culture.
Bad timing. Bad timing.
Do you remember that?
Counterclockwise.
I think what's tough too is like when your business transforms or changes a lot, which theirs did, right? They went from like concept, great brand to like boom. You know, Gary's everywhere, Grant's talking about it. all of a sudden the partnership has to change too. And I think they probably just had expectations that were never changed. And so now they're just completely misaligned.
We've worked about 17 of the 20 years.
You know, I think we had like a lucky fortune at the very beginning of our working relationship because we worked together. We were like jiving. Everything was going really well. We brainstormed really well. We were excited. We were ambitious. And then we split. Yep. Right? And then that split, we didn't talk to each other for almost two years. Yep.
And then we came back together, formed an idea, started another business, led to another business. And so I think like us realizing how... Childish it was to just not have the level of communication to to resolve the issue right taught us like alright We just need to start resolving issues faster
You know, you bring that up. I think commitment's really important. And I think the way that I sit is I'm 100% committed in our relationship working together. The minute you're not, I'm 100% willing to let our partnership split. Because we have to be 100% in or not. And I think what happens a lot of times is people will start to waver and then they feel like they're stuck or whatever.
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