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Tim Fargo

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
126 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Filed Bankrupt Then Made Millions

So if you want to see the kind of blood and guts of making a bad business good again, that's an awesome book too.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Filed Bankrupt Then Made Millions

You know, there's not, but there's someone who I really admire.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Filed Bankrupt Then Made Millions

And I've got this little bit of a, I suppose my hook right now is I'm really interested in the idea of turnarounds in big businesses.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Filed Bankrupt Then Made Millions

And talk about, you know, you were saying when you graduated, there's a guy named Lou Gerstner, who's the guy that turned IBM around in the 90s.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Filed Bankrupt Then Made Millions

And, you know, and that might sound to a lot of entrepreneurial people like, oh, yeah, well, you know, IBM.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Filed Bankrupt Then Made Millions

Hey, to take a business that's like 65, 70 years old and has a hugely entrenched culture where it's just become horrible and make it back into a performer, that's an achievement.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Filed Bankrupt Then Made Millions

That's like you're turning around a massive ship.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Filed Bankrupt Then Made Millions

So there's great lessons for anybody in studying people like Lou Gerstner.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Filed Bankrupt Then Made Millions

You know, I just found this, and I'm so happy, and I've actually been recommending it to people the last couple days.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Filed Bankrupt Then Made Millions

It's called OnePageCRM.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Filed Bankrupt Then Made Millions

And let me just give a real quick explanation of it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Filed Bankrupt Then Made Millions

I mean, for a lot of us, we don't have a traditional sales channel where, you know, we're not industrialists going out identifying our clients and putting them into like a sales channel.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Filed Bankrupt Then Made Millions

I mean, we have people we need to be in contact, like, you know, we're in contact or whatever.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Filed Bankrupt Then Made Millions

You're managing people that you know, but you want to keep up with like what the last thing you talked about is so you don't have to go back through all your emails.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Filed Bankrupt Then Made Millions

OnePageCRM is the first thing I've found since I used ACT way back when that is concise, simple, easy to manage, and gets the job done in keeping up with the contacts that you want to have information about.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Filed Bankrupt Then Made Millions

I usually sleep like five or six hours and I take a nap in the middle of the day.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Filed Bankrupt Then Made Millions

Easy on the Jack Daniels, dude.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Filed Bankrupt Then Made Millions

No, I just, I'm being facetious.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Filed Bankrupt Then Made Millions

I would actually, it's funny, I would say that I don't have any advice for that.