Scott MacGregor

I didn't have anything that I saw as a distinct advantage, but I pretty quickly realized that That by being a contrarian, by always, when everyone was going left, I just intuitively wanted to go right. And by taking that path less traveled, that's where the pot of gold is in life. So I have leaned into that heavily, always in my career, but even more so now as an entrepreneur.

Yeah. So the first business I started, I was a chief revenue officer. Sound familiar? Like somebody I know. And, you know, we had had massive success. We grew a company from about five people to nearly 300 and had double digit growth every single year for 17 straight years.

Yeah. So the first business I started, I was a chief revenue officer. Sound familiar? Like somebody I know. And, you know, we had had massive success. We grew a company from about five people to nearly 300 and had double digit growth every single year for 17 straight years.

Yeah. So the first business I started, I was a chief revenue officer. Sound familiar? Like somebody I know. And, you know, we had had massive success. We grew a company from about five people to nearly 300 and had double digit growth every single year for 17 straight years.

And so through that, I was drinking from a fire hose every single day and we were hiring people like crazy and especially like 08, 09. The economy sucked, but we were hiring people like crazy. So every recruiter and their brother was calling me supposedly going to provide us with exceptional talent. And I will tell you that my experience as a sales leader for 17 years dealing with recruiters

And so through that, I was drinking from a fire hose every single day and we were hiring people like crazy and especially like 08, 09. The economy sucked, but we were hiring people like crazy. So every recruiter and their brother was calling me supposedly going to provide us with exceptional talent. And I will tell you that my experience as a sales leader for 17 years dealing with recruiters

And so through that, I was drinking from a fire hose every single day and we were hiring people like crazy and especially like 08, 09. The economy sucked, but we were hiring people like crazy. So every recruiter and their brother was calling me supposedly going to provide us with exceptional talent. And I will tell you that my experience as a sales leader for 17 years dealing with recruiters

i thought it was the most backwards uh industry the most antiquated industry i had ever seen in my life and i thought i could build a better mousetrap i thought i could build a different mousetrap so i started a company 10 years ago called something new and that company won eight consecutive american business awards for innovation which the record was three prior to that

i thought it was the most backwards uh industry the most antiquated industry i had ever seen in my life and i thought i could build a better mousetrap i thought i could build a different mousetrap so i started a company 10 years ago called something new and that company won eight consecutive american business awards for innovation which the record was three prior to that

i thought it was the most backwards uh industry the most antiquated industry i had ever seen in my life and i thought i could build a better mousetrap i thought i could build a different mousetrap so i started a company 10 years ago called something new and that company won eight consecutive american business awards for innovation which the record was three prior to that

And we literally built a different mousetrap. So everything that I had seen that drove me nuts as a CRO, we just did the opposite. And sometimes that's how easy it is. It's just what are the things that drive you crazy about, you know, a certain industry or vendors that you may work with and just do the opposite and you'll probably meet with success.

And we literally built a different mousetrap. So everything that I had seen that drove me nuts as a CRO, we just did the opposite. And sometimes that's how easy it is. It's just what are the things that drive you crazy about, you know, a certain industry or vendors that you may work with and just do the opposite and you'll probably meet with success.

And we literally built a different mousetrap. So everything that I had seen that drove me nuts as a CRO, we just did the opposite. And sometimes that's how easy it is. It's just what are the things that drive you crazy about, you know, a certain industry or vendors that you may work with and just do the opposite and you'll probably meet with success.

And that's exactly what happened, you know, at Something New.

And that's exactly what happened, you know, at Something New.

And that's exactly what happened, you know, at Something New.

So I started the community because I had all these relationships that I had built for decades with super interesting people. And I thought, well, wouldn't it be cool if I could bring these people in to talk to a community, but do it in a different way, in a live and interactive format? And so that was kind of the beginning of starting a community. And then again, access to these amazing people.

So I started the community because I had all these relationships that I had built for decades with super interesting people. And I thought, well, wouldn't it be cool if I could bring these people in to talk to a community, but do it in a different way, in a live and interactive format? And so that was kind of the beginning of starting a community. And then again, access to these amazing people.

So I started the community because I had all these relationships that I had built for decades with super interesting people. And I thought, well, wouldn't it be cool if I could bring these people in to talk to a community, but do it in a different way, in a live and interactive format? And so that was kind of the beginning of starting a community. And then again, access to these amazing people.

And some of them, you know, are billion dollar CEOs or famous musicians or chefs or Navy SEALs or pro athletes, Olympians, et cetera, bestselling authors.