Ryan Serhant
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653 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 10 Apr
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a business was, okay, how do I build a business that I can scale to 100? Whatever that means. Why go small? Why take a small swing? Why not just take a big swing? My life was fine as a real estate agent. I'm gonna start my own company. I'll start four. And then I did all these TV shows. Let's do a bigger one.
And let's get to a valuation as an enterprise where we really swing for that $10 billion multiple. Why not? Why not? And I don't know how I'm going to do it right now, but I'm getting there. And we will figure it out because I will be as consistent as possible until you buy or die. You won't let go. And that is like, they are relentless in their capacity and their consistency.
And they're risk-taking. They're far bigger risk-takers than I am, that's for sure. It's scary to risk money. It's a lot, man. But life is a gamble.
I think it's a couple of things. It was the thing I woke up with on my 40th birthday, which was you're no longer waking up to be important anymore. You're now waking up to be happy. And what does that mean? Maybe it means to be important. Maybe it doesn't. But you have to ask yourself that question every day. Two, I think my 70-year-old self is telling me to remember, right?
You're never going to remember your tasks. You will only remember your adventures, right? And as much time as I spend on email and in meetings and commuting, like I'm never gonna sit there when I'm 70 and remember that email. Like it's just, no matter how much importance there is today, it will mean nothing to me in 30 years. but I will remember the adventures, right? I will remember the stories.
And I think the third thing he would say is there is nothing without being present. Like there is just that opportunity to be present, especially, you know, as Xena, my daughter's like five and you know, I spent all my time at work And how do you balance that? You have family, you have obligations, you have responsibility. Where do you find the synergy? Where do you make a difference?
And where can you be as present as possible? And just look other humans in the eye and make sure, and I kind of like this, make sure that I don't spend my entire life just being a human doing, but being a human being. Yeah.
Oh, you know, just be my friend. See me on the street, say hi. And we do a lot. If you're looking to buy, rent, sell, or develop real estate, you can find us at serhant.com. If you want some fun entertainment, you can go watch the first season of Owning Manhattan, which is now on Netflix. You can follow us on any of our socials, Ryan Serhant or Serhant.
If you're in real estate or in sales or part of an enterprise sales team, you can go to sellit.com. I think it's the best next-gen sales training for salespeople and sales teams. And other than that, man, just live a life worth living. That's good, man. Yeah.
Well, number one is take care of the work. The work takes care of you. Number two is you are the people you keep. Like spend a lot of your time with other people. Make sure you're with the people you want to be like, right? And then number three would just have to be like living a life that's actually fun, right? Just be fun. Yeah. Otherwise, it's just not worth it.
My final question is what's your definition of greatness? My definition of greatness is not self-reflective. I would ask everybody else. I only think I'm great if everybody else kind of affirms the greatness. So I think it would have to be attached to the public affirmation, because I don't think anyone's great in a bubble or a vacuum.
I think great is a definition that's attached to a lot of other really good things and okay things and bad things and terrible things. And so I look at greatness through the eyes of every single person I've ever interacted with or come in touch with or ever followed or subscribed to me. And that's a weird answer, but I'm going to leave it at that. There you go. My bad, Brian.
Appreciate you, brother.
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