Description
Topics:
(2:29) - How clear is the picture of how far you’ve come in the past 4 months?
(3:27) - Recapping Track Zach #2
(10:36) - What are customers buying now and how have the service offerings changed?
(20:06) - Do you know the bootstrapping process of these other industry marketplace products?
(21:49) - How did you arrive at home security audit and family protection as the right first products to offer?
(29:20) - What’s your ultimate revenue goal as it pertains to fundraising?
(38:35) - What do your internal operations look like?
(41:06) - Zach’s experience in Launch New York
(43:32) - Spending too much time on “shiny object” opportunities
(48:55) - Traction and the fundraising process
(57:01) - Entrepreneurship is really hard
(1:06:01) - Is there anything you’ve changed your mind on in the past quarter?
(1:17:06) - Are there other mental models from your time as a SEAL that you apply in business?
(1:20:44) - Feeling high leverage work shift over time
(1:26:22) - How can people listening help Conterra?
Links:
ConterraSecurity.com
LaunchNY.org
The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
The Cold Start Problem by Andrew Chen
NfX Marketplaces
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Kevin Espiritu: Bootstrapping Epic Gardening to 8 Figgures by mixing Media + D2C Biz Models. Oh and Poker, Pink Pineapples, and Male Models.
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Important quotes from Naval on building wealth and the difference between wealth and money:
How to get rich without getting lucky. - Naval Ravikant
Making money is not a thing you do—it’s a skill you learn. - Naval Ravikant
I came up with the principles in my tweetstorm (below) for myself when I was really young, around thirteen or fourteen. I’ve been carrying them in my head for thirty years, and I’ve been living them. Over time (sadly or fortunately), the thing I got really good at was looking at businesses and figuring out the point of maximum leverage to actually create wealth and capture some of that created wealth. - Naval Ravikant
Seek wealth, not money or status. - Naval Ravikant
Wealth is having assets that earn while you sleep. - Naval Ravikant
Money is how we transfer time and wealth. - Naval Ravikant
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
You’re not going to get rich renting out your time. You must own equity—a piece of a business—to gain your financial freedom. - Naval Ravikant
The most important skill for getting rich is becoming a perpetual learner. You have to know how to learn anything you want to learn. The old model of making money is going to school for four years, getting your degree, and working as a professional for thirty years. But things change fast now. Now, you have to come up to speed on a new profession within nine months, and it’s obsolete four years later. But within those three productive years, you can get very wealthy. - Naval Ravikant
Important quotes from the podcast by Naval on Leverage:
“Give me a lever long enough and a place to stand, and I will move
Links:
Scribe Media
Paul’s website
The Pathless Path by Paul Millerd
Good Work by Paul Millerd
Paul on X
Topics:
(00:00:00) - Intro
(00:03:15) - Introducing Paul, and the early days of the publishing industry.
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Published 10/29/24
This is a replay of episode 34 of this podcast.
Links:
Josh’s Bio - Autogeny.org
Where is my flying car? By J. Storrs Hall
Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper
The Martian by Andy Weir
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Beyond AI by J. Storrs Hall
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