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Nick Huber

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
557 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

My First Million
When everything works, you learn the wrong lessons

Yeah.

My First Million
When everything works, you learn the wrong lessons

In advance of this episode, I personally vetted and interviewed 10 salespeople in South Africa, 10 finance folks in Egypt, LATAM, and South Africa, and 10 executive assistants in Sri Lanka, LATAM, and South Africa.

My First Million
When everything works, you learn the wrong lessons

Yeah.

My First Million
When everything works, you learn the wrong lessons

I watched their videos.

My First Million
When everything works, you learn the wrong lessons

I analyzed their resumes.

My First Million
When everything works, you learn the wrong lessons

Yeah, so if they email me, nick at sweatystartup.com, I can hook them up with some of these profiles, let them see them, and hopefully help them grow their team.

My First Million
When everything works, you learn the wrong lessons

I have one person in mind who's building a pest control monster of a company.

My First Million
When everything works, you learn the wrong lessons

I don't want to out him.

My First Million
When everything works, you learn the wrong lessons

It's just incredible to me.

My First Million
When everything works, you learn the wrong lessons

You know this.

My First Million
When everything works, you learn the wrong lessons

You've actually taught me a lot of this stuff.

My First Million
When everything works, you learn the wrong lessons

They find one thing that really works inside their company, and they just run the same play for five or 10 years to grow a monster business.

My First Million
When everything works, you learn the wrong lessons

Just hammer it.

My First Million
When everything works, you learn the wrong lessons

I didn't think that business worked that way, that you could do one thing really well and everything else, you know, you're not hiring internationally, you're not doing the latest software, you haven't even looked at AI, you're not answering the phone past 5.01 PM, but you do this one thing well and you're worth $100 million.

My First Million
When everything works, you learn the wrong lessons

Brad Jacobs.

My First Million
When everything works, you learn the wrong lessons

Brad Jacobs with how he grew United Rentals and several of these other companies.

My First Million
When everything works, you learn the wrong lessons

He ran the same plays.

My First Million
When everything works, you learn the wrong lessons

What was his play?

My First Million
When everything works, you learn the wrong lessons

I actually don't know.

My First Million
When everything works, you learn the wrong lessons

I'm sure he had several different plays, but how you make a few billion dollars is like you find a way to grow equipment rental business through, is it local ads?