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2026-01-12

 Jan 12 2025 - transcript Okay, let's get started today. We're gonna talk about founders, fighting. It's such a challenge. I have been in this situation. In fact, this whole thing is about me, frankly, um, we weren't really fighting, but there was definitely conflict going on every day. And ultimately, we decided, um, well, here's what happened. We kept, we had clients, we were working on getting clients, we were working on delivering to the clients, but we disagreed on how to deliver to the clients. Not one right, one wrong, just disagreed. And because we disagreed, it came across wrong to the clients, came across wrong to the team. And so, I tried to back off, but I knew that if we kept going down the fulfillment road that we were describing and delivering to our customers, we couldn't scale. And so I was trying to work with the team to get the ideas that we could then build a scalable system. It never worked out. So, ultimately, what happened was, I had a mee...

2026-01-09

 2026-01-09 Transcript All right, good afternoon. This is January 9th, and we're going to talk about teams. We're gonna talk about the brutal truth about building a team, most teams fail, and I'm gonna give you exactly my step-by-step process on how to build a team, how to create an organization of people who want to deliver, who want to succeed, and to do that. Along the way, I'm also gonna tell you about how you, as a leader, need what you need to do at each step. So, The short version, the short version is this. There are 4 levels of a team. The 1st level is just a group of people who are assembled to assign to do something. Level 2 is when that group of people can repeat back to you, who's the client and what problem are we solving? Level 3 is when you have all the right people in all the right seats of the team who believes they're serving one client, solving one problem. And then level 4 is that the group of people who's become a team who now becomes a...