Scott D. Clary
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Host of https://t.co/O1vsoawJ0g (Top 10 Business Podcast) & write a weekly newsletter to 321k people @ https://t.co/bXNJDcYeBr
Joined October 2011
Start here ✅ . What I do 👇. Podcast ▶️ Newsletter ▶️ Publication ▶️
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Hot Take: All this chaos around the Twitter Blue verified badges was part of the plan. The amount of earned media this is generating is insane. Millions of tweets, news articles, TV stories, etc. Twitter is the focus of the conversation. A bit of chaos to breathe new life?.
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Imagination is more important than knowledge. -Albert Einstein.
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When Elon bought Twitter they had 7500 employees. He fired 50% of their workforce. Another 1200 left after he told them he was going to make Twitter "Extremely Hardcore". Less than 2900 remain. How can 2900 do the same job as 7500?. Price's Law. [🧵 Thread].
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Start here ✅ . What I do 👇. Podcast ▶️ Newsletter ▶️ Publication ▶️
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You can't be busy and be creative. A full calendar doesn't always mean you're performing at your best.
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We should be teaching these things in high school, if not earlier:.· Financial literacy .· Entrepreneurship .· Basic coding .· Home economics .· Rational thinking .· Rhetoric.
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The world is complex. We need to understand big ideas to make better decisions. Critical thinking is an art, and mental models are the brush that allows us to unpack complex, yet fundamental ideas. Here are 5 that are critical for your business to succeed. [🧵 Thread].
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The 4-step process for eliminating anxiety:. 1. Identify the Root Cause. 2. Eliminate the Source. 3. Replace the Source. 4. Retrain the Brain.
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Stop equating someone’s singular viewpoint on a topic with their entire persona. Its ok to disagree on a topic and not hate each other for 99% of the other shit.
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Discipline will take you further in life than skill ever will.
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Life always gives us exactly the lesson we need,. even if it’s not a lesson we like.
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People are worried about FTX. Wait until you hear about the Federal Reserve.
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Want to start a company? . It takes a special kind of person to be a successful founder. Do you have what it takes?. Here are 5 frameworks / mental models any entrepreneur needs to internalize. [🧵 Thread].
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New @SuccessStoryPod w/ @iantien - CEO & Co-Founder of @Mattermost . ➡️Open Source Platforms vs Closed Source Platforms. - Customer acquisition strategy.- Advice for entrepreneurs.- Evolving trends of remote work. Podcast: YouTube:
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Most successful people spend 80% of their work time not working on anything. They spend that time on:. (1) Doing research.(2) Asking questions.(3) Observing.(4) Listening.
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The 3 reasons you procrastinate:. (1) You’re afraid of failure. (2) You’re afraid of success. (3) You’re afraid of something else. For most of us, it’s the fear of something else. Figure out what that is.
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The most valuable skill you can learn is your ability to accept that you can be wrong.
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3 Golden Rules of Networking. (1) Treat everyone you meet with respect. (2) Always be grateful. (3) Always give someone something.
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Those who understand what motivates people, rule the world.
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If you want to be the 1% of startups that succeed, not the 99% that fail. Follow me.
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Treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight.
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Happiness is knowing what you want, not worrying about what you don’t.
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There’s nothing wrong with being different. There’s everything wrong with pretending to be someone else.
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.@yosef_Martin, Host of Liquidity & Liquor, discusses the importance of believing in your own product. (@llpodpage)
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You can be extremely intelligent, but lack empathy. You can be empathetic, but lack intelligence. Both are important.
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Can someone explain to me why I pay a monthly fee to streaming services to have the luxury of paying to rent a movie?. It's giving, if AMC was Soho House vibes. And I don't love it.
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Building a business is hard. The requirement to apply contrarian thinking to (seemingly) obvious business rules makes it even harder. Here are 5 paradoxical problems, all entrepreneurs need to overcome (as often as possible). [🧵 Thread].
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The more time you spend figuring out who you are, the less time you spend pretending to be who you’re not.
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3 things you need to stop doing:. 1) Stop overthinking.2) Stop overworking.3) Stop overindulging. When you overthink, you miss opportunities. When you overwork, you burn yourself out. When you overindulge, you overspend.
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"No one will give you the education you need to overthrow them.".
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The most successful people are those who work hard, have unbelievable focus, and never give up.
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Startups are tough, but you don't have to reinvent the wheel. There's some proven rules that universally apply that will make building 10x easier. If you're a startup founder or entrepreneur, you need to live by these 5 commandments. [🧵 Thread].
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Don’t let the pursuit of money make you forget what money is supposed to get you.
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Life is painful and messy. Anyone who tells you otherwise is probably trying to sell you something.
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How to beat 99% of your competition:. Show up consistently.
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Your success is not measured by how much money you make.
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Dont rest until youve done something every day that makes you a better person than you were yesterday.
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.@DeniseKShull, Founder of The Rethink Group, on the importance of overcoming self criticism. (@SuccessStoryPod)
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- 10 employees, 3 of them do 50% of the work. - 100 employees, 10 of them do 50% of the work, the other 90 do the other 50%. - 10,000 employees 100 of them do 50% of the work, the other 9,900 do the other 50%. h/t @DariusForoux
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Derek Price, a British physicist, historian and scientist discovered something interesting about his peers. There were always a handful of people who dominated the publications within a certain subject. Being a scientist, he investigated.
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If you're the smartest person in the room, then you're in the wrong room.
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If you’re going to tank a company, right now is a pretty good time to do it…. as long as you lose less than $10bn of investors money.
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“Kindness is the language the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”-Mark Twain.
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Don’t just chase shiny objects. Chase the 10% of work that 90% of people ignore.
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New @SuccessStoryPod w/ Dr. John Demartini - Human Behavior Expert, Author & Speaker. ➡️How to Master Your Life. - Controlling your subconscious mind.- Choosing the best mentors.- Dealing with intimidation. Podcast: YouTube:
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Because payment processors are cars and cars are rockets.
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Marketing 1.0 - Build awareness. Marketing 2.0 - Build an audience. Marketing 3.0 - Build a community.
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This scales too. Competence grows linearly. Incompetence grows exponentially.
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.@Stormy_Simon (President of @Overstock & Founder of @MotherRuggers), on pulling the right levers in a business. @SuccessStoryPod
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Optimize for Positivity: The Next Evolution of Social Media ft. @spencerrascoff & @sophiarascoff .
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It’s interesting when a professor tells an accomplished entrepreneur what he “doesn’t understand” about business. Businesses aren’t built in classrooms.
Here's what Elon Musk fails to understand:. Much of a corporations' value lies in their workers — their knowledge, skills, and ideas. When he fired half of Twitter’s workforce and drove off even more, he wasn't “cutting costs.”. He was actively destroying what he bought.
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"Razors" are guidelines that help streamline your decision-making. Simplifying your decision-making = drastically improved outcomes. Here are 5 cognitive razor's to help optimize your decision making process. [🧵 Thread].
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The real reason you’re not happy is because you haven’t had enough difficult conversations.
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The highest version of yourself is not one without flaws, but one with the courage to use your flaws as a stepping stone.
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You can never win an argument with someone who isn’t willing to admit they’re wrong.
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$10m is not FU money.
@thesamparr @chamath in the US in 2022:. -- a couple of million, you're good .-- $10m, FU MONEY .-- $25m+, you're dangerous AF . anything above that, who cares. .
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Starting a business is hard. But staying involved in one can be even harder. Overcoming self-doubt is key to long term, sustained success. Here’s 5 strategies to eliminate self doubt that’s inevitably going to impact you if you start building anything. [🧵 Thread].
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Success is not being better than others. Success is about being better than you were yesterday.
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The survival of any business requires the execs to figure out who the most competent and necessary people are in the organization and keep them happy and keep them around. If they don't, Price's law will kill their business. Elon just has to hope he chose the right people.
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Investors: how do you define "pre-seed"?.
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How to stay poor. Start something new today. Start something new tomorrow. Repeat.
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Hitting rock bottom is one of the most useful things that can happen to an entrepreneur.
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New @LLPodPage podcast with @RayUrdaneta is now live on all platforms!. Hit the link in bio to listen to the full episode.
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If you can execute repeatedly (while iterating based on feedback from failures/setbacks), on one project for 7-10 years, I guarantee you're going to be a success.
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🎙️ Success Story Podcast. 🔊 CEOs, Celebrities, Artists, Politicians, Athletes, Entrepreneurs .
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