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Sean Gallagher

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
149 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ethical Way to Build a Mastermind

Daniel Vitello was one of them, Danny Boy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ethical Way to Build a Mastermind

And threw them into a Facebook group.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ethical Way to Build a Mastermind

And it turned out that all these guys lacked a kind of brotherhood or common tribe in their lives as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ethical Way to Build a Mastermind

And really didn't have, and struggled to find access to these high-level entrepreneurs themselves.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ethical Way to Build a Mastermind

And so it kind of took off from there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ethical Way to Build a Mastermind

Yeah, it's a great question.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ethical Way to Build a Mastermind

And because this didn't start necessarily as a business, we were really strict about the quality of the people that we were accepting in the beginning.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ethical Way to Build a Mastermind

And so we started out with a very core group of people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ethical Way to Build a Mastermind

And as people came in, as we were getting clear on who the community was for,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ethical Way to Build a Mastermind

We weren't afraid to kick people out.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ethical Way to Build a Mastermind

We've kicked out to date over 100 different people that either acted out of integrity or didn't fit our values or our criteria.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ethical Way to Build a Mastermind

Just somebody dropping the ball in a business deal between the guys or somebody just acting like a complete douchebag.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ethical Way to Build a Mastermind

For example, we have a criteria, can the guy check his ego at the door?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ethical Way to Build a Mastermind

If we have a meetup and some guy's being a complete douchebag and doing all the talking and just talking about himself and not interested in anybody else, that's somebody we might boot.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ethical Way to Build a Mastermind

Or if somebody did a business deal with a couple of brothers and dropped the ball on all of them, like then we'd have to look at that guy and say, I can't recommend that guy in my network anymore.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ethical Way to Build a Mastermind

I actually didn't make this decision.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ethical Way to Build a Mastermind

The community kind of did.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ethical Way to Build a Mastermind

We were on one of our adventure trips.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ethical Way to Build a Mastermind

I can't share too many details about who was there or where that was or what we were doing, but we were doing something pretty crazy, and the boys just basically said, we're getting a lot of value from this.