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Jim Fowler

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
235 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Art of Selling Your Company

If you're an entrepreneur, I mean, I'm pretty sure that's a trick question because show me an entrepreneur that gets eight hours of sleep and I'll show you a company that's going to fail.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Art of Selling Your Company

I mean, it just doesn't happen in and in.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Art of Selling Your Company

No, I'm not saying that you don't need to get efficient.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Art of Selling Your Company

Um, one piece of advice I would give to your listeners on this is when I started jigsaw, I made a deal with my wife and I said, look, I'm going to work my butt off during the week.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Art of Selling Your Company

Um, you know, I will be home for dinner and when I'm not traveling, um,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Art of Selling Your Company

at 6 30 and you know i'll be there my son was young then you know i will be with you guys until 8 30 and i got to go back to work um but i'm not going to work on the weekends unless it's an emergency so that's when i would recharge and i it's not that you you know get three or four hours of sleep a day that you would die but during the week when everything's on you know never would i get it but you need time to recharge and whatever way you do that for me it was making sure to spend time with my family so i really recommend you do that you can't

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Art of Selling Your Company

You can't burn your whole life doing nothing but your job.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Art of Selling Your Company

Well, I wouldn't get eight hours.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Art of Selling Your Company

I'm more of like a six-hour guy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Art of Selling Your Company

My COO, who was instrumental in selling Jigsaw, he literally can operate on four or five hours a night.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Art of Selling Your Company

I can't do that more than one or two nights in a row.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Art of Selling Your Company

You got to get your rest, but I'm just saying eight hours, that's for people with corporate jobs.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Art of Selling Your Company

Entrepreneurs just don't get that in my experience.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Art of Selling Your Company

I started at University of Colorado as a business major.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Art of Selling Your Company

And I knew I wanted to be a businessman at some point in the future.