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Shaan Puri

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1087 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

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

So like, you know, whether it's assistants, executive assistants was like a big, you know, a huge part of our business, sales folks, you know, whatever.

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

There's folks like that.

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

But-

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

C-suite folks, we would typically assume are, well, that's who I want to use, you know, different local hires, either, you know, in the same office as me or just American hires.

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

Expensive, big pay packages, you know, got a lot of pedigree with companies I recognize, you know, whatever.

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

And so we did that.

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

You know, we hired a bunch of executives and that was...

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

I think made total sense on paper.

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

And I think one of the cool things that you figured out that I didn't see going into this was since then, you have actually rebuilt not just the junior and mid-level, but actually the executive team with executive talent elsewhere.

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

And I kind of took that and I was like, oh, I should do that in my businesses because that's actually like an even bigger hack.

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

Because you were like, dude, I'm finding, here's this person in South Africa.

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

They've got an MBA.

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

They speak perfect English.

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

They've worked for international companies and American companies that do work internationally for 12 years.

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

They've been a financial controller controlling these budgets.

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

And you can hire that person at this price.

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

That's incredible.

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

You know, you're saving huge amounts of money on really great talent and really hungry, low maintenance, hardworking talent all around the globe.

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

And so that was, I thought, one of the bigger surprises to me and like things we got wrong that we kind of corrected.

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

And I don't know if you want to say a quick thing about that.