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David Jones

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288 total appearances

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Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Taking Big Risks: How David Jones Built a Billion-Dollar Brand Against All Odds | E54

And we all unpacked them, played with them, put them back on the shelf. And then somebody invented the iPhone. That's been quite good. And I've always, without ever trying to be

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Taking Big Risks: How David Jones Built a Billion-Dollar Brand Against All Odds | E54

And we all unpacked them, played with them, put them back on the shelf. And then somebody invented the iPhone. That's been quite good. And I've always, without ever trying to be

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Taking Big Risks: How David Jones Built a Billion-Dollar Brand Against All Odds | E54

naive about what's going to be big and successful, I've always gone, A, if this improves at the rate with which it probably can, do I believe that most human beings will find this a great, interesting, and cool thing to do? If they do, then it's probably worth being really interested. That's why we started investing in AI back in 2015. RAOUL PAL

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Taking Big Risks: How David Jones Built a Billion-Dollar Brand Against All Odds | E54

naive about what's going to be big and successful, I've always gone, A, if this improves at the rate with which it probably can, do I believe that most human beings will find this a great, interesting, and cool thing to do? If they do, then it's probably worth being really interested. That's why we started investing in AI back in 2015. RAOUL PAL

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Taking Big Risks: How David Jones Built a Billion-Dollar Brand Against All Odds | E54

I think one of the really important things and one of the great things you learn about playing team sports and particularly a team sport like rugby is the importance of team and the importance of different skill sets. And in fact, one of my partners, Emma, early on said, it's amazing you have such different people. And I said, well, yeah, because I...

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Taking Big Risks: How David Jones Built a Billion-Dollar Brand Against All Odds | E54

I think one of the really important things and one of the great things you learn about playing team sports and particularly a team sport like rugby is the importance of team and the importance of different skill sets. And in fact, one of my partners, Emma, early on said, it's amazing you have such different people. And I said, well, yeah, because I...

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Taking Big Risks: How David Jones Built a Billion-Dollar Brand Against All Odds | E54

I know what I'm good at, and I don't need someone else who can do that. And I know what I'm not good at, and I need people who are good at that. So I think I'm not sure it's light years away. I think there are some people who would like to be the CEO, the leader. There are other people who would like to be the right hand to the CEO, the leader. There are other people.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Taking Big Risks: How David Jones Built a Billion-Dollar Brand Against All Odds | E54

I know what I'm good at, and I don't need someone else who can do that. And I know what I'm not good at, and I need people who are good at that. So I think I'm not sure it's light years away. I think there are some people who would like to be the CEO, the leader. There are other people who would like to be the right hand to the CEO, the leader. There are other people.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Taking Big Risks: How David Jones Built a Billion-Dollar Brand Against All Odds | E54

And I think if you want to be the CEO and you want to be... the leader, be careful what you wish for. Might sound great, but suddenly your neck is on the block, which if you've got a certain type of personality is fine. And if you have another, you might not enjoy that. But I also, I think people just kind of say to themselves, what do you want to be? The founder, the leader, the CEO.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Taking Big Risks: How David Jones Built a Billion-Dollar Brand Against All Odds | E54

And I think if you want to be the CEO and you want to be... the leader, be careful what you wish for. Might sound great, but suddenly your neck is on the block, which if you've got a certain type of personality is fine. And if you have another, you might not enjoy that. But I also, I think people just kind of say to themselves, what do you want to be? The founder, the leader, the CEO.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Taking Big Risks: How David Jones Built a Billion-Dollar Brand Against All Odds | E54

And then honestly, I think If you do, if you get your head down and just work really hard, you'll get noticed or you'll get noticed by the right companies. I mean, I think over the years, you heard more and more people, you know, I think Lindsay Owen Jones was one of them, the sort of very famous L'Oreal CEO back in the day when he was asking why he was so successful.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Taking Big Risks: How David Jones Built a Billion-Dollar Brand Against All Odds | E54

And then honestly, I think If you do, if you get your head down and just work really hard, you'll get noticed or you'll get noticed by the right companies. I mean, I think over the years, you heard more and more people, you know, I think Lindsay Owen Jones was one of them, the sort of very famous L'Oreal CEO back in the day when he was asking why he was so successful.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Taking Big Risks: How David Jones Built a Billion-Dollar Brand Against All Odds | E54

He just said, I kept showing up, I kept saying yes, and I kept working hard. And it's actually not that much more complicated than that. I mean, honestly, if I sort of look back on the last 20, 30 years, I have worked like crazy. There's a great video, Kobe Bryant tells a story of how he would get up

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Taking Big Risks: How David Jones Built a Billion-Dollar Brand Against All Odds | E54

He just said, I kept showing up, I kept saying yes, and I kept working hard. And it's actually not that much more complicated than that. I mean, honestly, if I sort of look back on the last 20, 30 years, I have worked like crazy. There's a great video, Kobe Bryant tells a story of how he would get up

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Taking Big Risks: How David Jones Built a Billion-Dollar Brand Against All Odds | E54

way earlier than everyone else who could go to the gym twice every day so that if everyone else was doing two hours in the gym, he was doing four. After 10 years, he'd done twice as much. I think it's quite true around business. If you work twice as hard as everyone else, you'll get on faster, you'll learn more, you'll do better. From then on, I think

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Taking Big Risks: How David Jones Built a Billion-Dollar Brand Against All Odds | E54

way earlier than everyone else who could go to the gym twice every day so that if everyone else was doing two hours in the gym, he was doing four. After 10 years, he'd done twice as much. I think it's quite true around business. If you work twice as hard as everyone else, you'll get on faster, you'll learn more, you'll do better. From then on, I think

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Taking Big Risks: How David Jones Built a Billion-Dollar Brand Against All Odds | E54

trust your own judgment and your own gut, because by the time you become the global CEO, there are way too many people around you who want to tell you what they think you want to hear. And what becomes really, really valuable, and Kate Robertson, my co-founder of One Young World, has been this to me for my entire career, is, you know,

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Taking Big Risks: How David Jones Built a Billion-Dollar Brand Against All Odds | E54

trust your own judgment and your own gut, because by the time you become the global CEO, there are way too many people around you who want to tell you what they think you want to hear. And what becomes really, really valuable, and Kate Robertson, my co-founder of One Young World, has been this to me for my entire career, is, you know,

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Taking Big Risks: How David Jones Built a Billion-Dollar Brand Against All Odds | E54

when you've said a dumb thing or got off stage and it actually hasn't been one of your vintage moments, instead of going, that was amazing, they go, you know, that was shit and I'd never say that again. That's way more valuable than the 80% of people telling you you're just incredible.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Taking Big Risks: How David Jones Built a Billion-Dollar Brand Against All Odds | E54

when you've said a dumb thing or got off stage and it actually hasn't been one of your vintage moments, instead of going, that was amazing, they go, you know, that was shit and I'd never say that again. That's way more valuable than the 80% of people telling you you're just incredible.