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Jeffrey Zurofsky

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
199 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 85: Going from 1 To 17 Restaurants and Landing a Bravo TV Show with Jeffrey Zurofsky

And so that can range anywhere.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 85: Going from 1 To 17 Restaurants and Landing a Bravo TV Show with Jeffrey Zurofsky

If you're in full growth mode, you may be thrown off.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 85: Going from 1 To 17 Restaurants and Landing a Bravo TV Show with Jeffrey Zurofsky

You might be, you know, have negative cashflow for the business, but units are performing well and that's a healthy metric.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 85: Going from 1 To 17 Restaurants and Landing a Bravo TV Show with Jeffrey Zurofsky

Right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 85: Going from 1 To 17 Restaurants and Landing a Bravo TV Show with Jeffrey Zurofsky

And then, uh, if you're not growing, then, you know, maybe your GNA, your whole, your whole, um, general and administrative for those of you, for those of you watching at home, uh, should be 10 to 15 or so percent, um,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 85: Going from 1 To 17 Restaurants and Landing a Bravo TV Show with Jeffrey Zurofsky

you know, maybe less than that if you get to, if you really cut back.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 85: Going from 1 To 17 Restaurants and Landing a Bravo TV Show with Jeffrey Zurofsky

But I think in today's day and age.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 85: Going from 1 To 17 Restaurants and Landing a Bravo TV Show with Jeffrey Zurofsky

Yeah, if you're in that range, you've got a successful enterprise.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 85: Going from 1 To 17 Restaurants and Landing a Bravo TV Show with Jeffrey Zurofsky

Well, there's a couple reasons.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 85: Going from 1 To 17 Restaurants and Landing a Bravo TV Show with Jeffrey Zurofsky

I mean, one was the actual show did a lot for, you know, I'd say the connection and the relationship between the restaurant and me and Tom is known as sort of

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 85: Going from 1 To 17 Restaurants and Landing a Bravo TV Show with Jeffrey Zurofsky

business people in the industry.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 85: Going from 1 To 17 Restaurants and Landing a Bravo TV Show with Jeffrey Zurofsky

I don't think there's ever bad exposure on that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 85: Going from 1 To 17 Restaurants and Landing a Bravo TV Show with Jeffrey Zurofsky

And the way we were portrayed as judges and as hosts only contribute to the credibility around expertise in the field.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 85: Going from 1 To 17 Restaurants and Landing a Bravo TV Show with Jeffrey Zurofsky

Having said that, it was time for me personally running that business for 12 years.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 85: Going from 1 To 17 Restaurants and Landing a Bravo TV Show with Jeffrey Zurofsky

It was time for someone else to

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 85: Going from 1 To 17 Restaurants and Landing a Bravo TV Show with Jeffrey Zurofsky

You know, I'd say my expertise is in creating and setting up businesses, running them for, you know, growing from 15 units to maybe 50 units, which would be the goal, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 85: Going from 1 To 17 Restaurants and Landing a Bravo TV Show with Jeffrey Zurofsky

That's a different set of skills that work for me and

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 85: Going from 1 To 17 Restaurants and Landing a Bravo TV Show with Jeffrey Zurofsky

Even for the organization, I mean, I think one thing that entrepreneurs need to learn is to listen to the organization.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 85: Going from 1 To 17 Restaurants and Landing a Bravo TV Show with Jeffrey Zurofsky

And at some point, the company kind of tells you what it needs.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 85: Going from 1 To 17 Restaurants and Landing a Bravo TV Show with Jeffrey Zurofsky

I was still CEO while the show was going on.