Customize Consent Preferences

We use cookies to help you navigate efficiently and perform certain functions. You will find detailed information about all cookies under each consent category below.

The cookies that are categorized as "Necessary" are stored on your browser as they are essential for enabling the basic functionalities of the site. ... 

Always Active

Necessary cookies are required to enable the basic features of this site, such as providing secure log-in or adjusting your consent preferences. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable data.

No cookies to display.

Functional cookies help perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collecting feedback, and other third-party features.

No cookies to display.

Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics such as the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.

No cookies to display.

Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.

No cookies to display.

Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with customized advertisements based on the pages you visited previously and to analyze the effectiveness of the ad campaigns.

No cookies to display.

Episode Cover_Ray Deck
02 April 2025200 min

How to Scale a Tech-Enabled Business with AI, Tools, and Reputation

with Ray Deck, State Change

What if the smartest way to scale your business wasn’t about building a bigger team—but using the tools already at your fingertips?

In this episode, I talk with Ray Deck, founder of State Change, about how entrepreneurs are scaling faster (and with way less stress) by leveraging AI, no-code tools, and most importantly—their reputation and domain expertise.

Ray’s been in tech through every major shift—from the dot-com crash to SaaS, and now, the AI boom. His take? We’re entering a new kind of scale. One where what you know matters more than what you build from scratch.

We get into:

  • Why founders should stop waiting for AGI and start building with what they already know
  • How mid-journey entrepreneurs can use AI + no-code tools to gain leverage fast
  • The surprising ROI of content creation (especially when it’s backed by reputation)
  • How software is becoming a way to express your ideas, not just automate tasks

👉 If you’re running a 7-figure business and thinking, “How do I scale without losing my mind?”—this conversation will spark real ideas for your next move.

Ray Deck is a veteran founder who’s helped build companies across two decades of tech shifts. Now, through State Change, he helps entrepreneurs unlock growth by using AI and low-code tools to scale their expertise—not their headcount.

He’s here to remind us: scaling isn’t about doing more. It’s about doing the right things with the right leverage.

Work With A.J.

Want to turn your expertise into scalable income? Let’s talk about how we can work together.
👉 Explore Opportunities with A.J.

Key Quotes:

  • “The value isn’t in the idea. The value is in your credibility.”
  • “If you’re not experimenting, you’re not growing.”
  • “AI is a lever. But without knowledge and trust, you’ve got nothing to pull on.”

Episode highlights:

  • How to scale using what you already know
  • Why content builds trust—and drives sales
  • Tools that help non-tech founders build smarter
  • How to future-proof your business with systems, not stress
Connect with Ray Deck:

Transcript

[Intro]

A.J. Lawrence:
Hey everyone. Welcome back to another episode. Today’s gonna be a lot of fun because definitely we’re gonna be talking to someone who is really thinking deep and doing a lot of really cool stuff in where the technology that we’re facing from AI, no code, all different parts, is really advancing quickly. And matter of fact, his company is kind of the tagline is helping you with the hardest 5%. And we’ll get into that in a second. But what was really kind of cool, our guest today and I are both invested in this one company that maybe has failed, maybe has re-risen as a phoenix. We were kind of just joking. Something’s happening with it, but not the direction wanted. And we were kind of put in touch because Ray had made some comment about an update. And we kind of connected over that and we’ve chatted. So it’s always kind of cool to talk with other investors that you’ve invested in a company that once upon a time, you had hopes for. It was a dream. The dream did not happen.

I just was very, very impressed with how deep our guest, Ray Deck of State Change, has gone into thinking about what technology is doing to a lot of the different types of companies we’ve become familiar with over the past 5, 10 years and how that’s rapidly changing now and sort of the type of things that allow that technology is allowing us to work with is also going to be rapidly changing. So I’ve been following a lot of his work online. He has a great YouTube channel for State Change, a lot of other great resources, and just realizing I’m way over my head and wanting to kind of talk to him and get a little bit closer into a better understanding of what’s going on. So in that preamble, Ray, thank you so much for coming on the show today.

Ray Deck:
Thank you, A.J. It’s a delight to be here.

A.J. Lawrence:
No, I mean it’s a lot of fun because like I said, I really enjoyed when we chatted previously. You’re playing at a wonderful level in what’s going on in this world right now. One level, it’s a new toy every day. But it’s also the realization that wondering if we’re going to become the puppies in a year or two, and maybe not a year or two but soon enough where hopefully we’re content and we get our belly rubbed every once in a while. But everything that we consider of value, of generating whatever is rapidly changing in what we do. But before we get into that and go too deep into this, can you kind of share a little bit with the audience just your own entrepreneurial journey? Because I was going through you had some work for some great startups. You were partners in different things. You’ve done some really cool things here.

Ray Deck:
Thank you. I’ve been doing the software startups either as a primary founder, as the CTO, or as an advisor investor for the last 25 years, which sounds like a very long time when I say that out loud. Originally, I went to school for political science of all things. I fell in with some of the people who would become the pioneers of a science that would call data science. People like Ed Tufte at Yale and really became plugged into what they were doing, applying more quantitative discipline to a previously non-quantitative subject and sort of left with that idea of like how do I apply not just computers but really data being more quantitative to these. These are disciplines. And then I went into management consulting and the management consultants immediately put me to work because one thing you can do with young persons, give them more quantitative work and like wait, you can do databases, what have you. This became a launchpad and discovered along the way that I really enjoyed the technology. I saw the equity opportunity for it. I wanted to be part of building something rather than just renting out my brain, at least at the time. And so I first joined a healthcare startup which was a wonderful experience for a couple years. Then I hung out my own shingle and I just heard an alt building either a service company to a product company to a service company to product company, you know, repeatedly over the course of my career and trying to figure out like where’s the money in the technology and sort of started all this right around ’99. Sort of big run up to the dot-com boom and then sort of have seen the crash of 2002, seen the rise of user generated content, seen the crash of 2008, lived through it, scarred for it and then seen the world of SaaS, which is really sort of game ascendant.

I would say after 2000, it had a lot to do with the macroeconomic environment for interest rates. And then the post pandemic move. And the question I’ve tried to ask, and I’ve been asking more actively in the course of the last several months is what’s really different right now versus what happened before? Because I’ve seen the ways there are certain things that keep on seeming like they change all the time and then there are certain things that are more eternally true or maybe sort of on that secular upward trajectory. So what is increasing in value? What is more valuable? And like how is know 2025 different from say 2021? And by looking at that issue of both level and change, be able to make better investment decisions, kind of sort of evolve from being the operator founder to being a leader founder, to being more of a, forgive me, an investor type founder, right? Where I’m thinking about how I’m putting my time and my capital to work to create really outsized results. And as I sort of have climbed the curve, that means sort of trying to be more researchy, more of a student of the market in order to figure where to lay the bets and where to allocate one’s time.

A.J. Lawrence:
How are you seeing things evolve before we kind of get into what you are seeing? I basically went from one digital services firm to the next in the dot-com crash where each one kind of was treating itself like it was a pure technology company when it was really just a glorified “You want another web page?” It’s just like one fault, one and out. Then as you said, the 2008, that kind of run up because I was in services. What was nice was we were able to pivot to more traditional companies and did well. But seeing that sort of like greed, that repeat of oh well this time it’s different, that seems very common to what’s happening except there’s also this bit of like, oh, I’ve never seen anything like this before. And people are really trying to watch what’s happening. Like this is really just different. I would love to kind of, as you’re putting your framework in place, what are you kind of seeing this transition and what are you seeing similar and how is this different for you?

Ray Deck:
There are a couple things that are different. There’s a wonderful book by Peter Drucker who’s sort of a guru of management. He wrote actually a great book on entrepreneurship and he talked about like three major sources of entrepreneurial opportunity. He talks about changes in demographics, changes in how society interacts with technology or perceives things, and actually new technology that’s come about. And I think when you sort of look back, you sort of see changes in all three of those things happening. Like in 2025, the average person at the peak of their career, who is of course younger than the two of us, peak of their career, has had an iPhone in their pocket for their entire adult lives. Their relationship with technology is fundamentally different than someone who’s even 10 years older than them so their attitude towards technology is different. Someone who is more senior in their career now probably took some degree of coding when they were in college. I can’t tell you how many people I run into who say I did code back when I was in school, but that’s not what I do for a living anymore. Right? That was back then, but I don’t do code now.

But then you ask what they were doing. They were doing JavaScript or doing Python. They’re doing the same languages that are like really premiere now. They were using same technologies that came into being say 10 or 15 years ago when they could have been trained in school. And now when they look at it again, it looks much more familiar than it would to someone who went to school say 10 years before that and were learning say Java maybe in an introductory computer science course or something that was going to be much harder to work with. And then they never saw again in the course of their careers because it didn’t look like anything they used.

And then the third part is the tools are really changing. Right? The way software gets built is remarkably different today than it was before. And this kind of gets like the whole AI thing being very exciting because AI, like any other technology, is a lever. It provides a lever on your expertise. And so as people have a rough idea of how a computer maybe should think, are able to make a lot more use of that and they can create software without having to learn all the code. They can express their will. And that’s what’s really exciting. I think about like low code tools that have been out there for like 20 years but the demographics and attitude towards technology has also caught up even as the quality of the tooling has gone up. And that’s made this more than linear opportunity for people who are just experts in their field to express themselves not just through personal services and not just through like making content, writing a book or something, but also being able to express themselves through the creation of software that starts to solve some of these problems for their clients, right, through automation. And those three things, consulting code and content and code, allow someone to make a lot more money if they’re really the expert.

So people who are just kind of the duffers in the space, people who are maybe at the second tier of what they do, they are threatened because now that person who at the peak can get more leverage on their time and be able to make a whole lot more money in the market. This is a classic thing of technology breeds inequality. But what that means is that people who have a lot of domain expertise have an opportunity to really get more leverage out of that and create a lot more wealth with it, as opposed to previously it would have been only if you also had a whole lot of coding skills and had significant training or what have you, which is kind of the thesis behind a lot of the SaaS movement of say 10 or 15 years ago, right?

Like the Rob Walling stuff or Y Combinator, which all have the theory of if you are a technologist, you can probably bring yourself into business now with increasing quality of the tools. And the fact that the same business experts have that demographic shift, that they have some degree of comfort with the technology means that you could be a domain expert and then bring the technology to it. And that sort of shifts who can make money in this market in a pretty interesting way. And I found that sort of be a big change in the market opportunity that gets expressed both in the visual tools. Classically, when we think about no code, you’re thinking about drawing things with boxes and arrows and having a canvas on the screen. That’s fine. That’s really been the state of the art, I think, for the last maybe 20 years. And then what’s really changed drastically, and I would say has changed a lot just in the course of the last four or five months, has been that the AI technology. Natural language AI, which was nowhere if we were having this conversation say eight years ago, seven years ago. It was all about computer vision. It wasn’t about natural language, but natural language technology has gotten so good that it can write computer code. And if you can express yourself in a way that’s close enough to how the machine expresses itself and you can like give it a screenshot, what have you, it could get you a really far along in how much of the work gets done. And then you can work with it iteratively to dial in what you’re looking for. This is the thesis behind the so called Vibe coding, which I think is a sort of a silly way of describing it. But the idea of you can express yourself using these visual tools and you can express yourself using natural language, none of which requires you to have to learn the arcane code, but you probably have some memory of that code anyway which is giving you some mental models to allow you to be more successful with it is what is makes all that bridge between where you are and the product that you could put into the market much, much shorter. And that’s I think, where the value gets unlocked.

A.J. Lawrence:
What was it just recently Y Combinator came out and everyone was kind of shocked, forgetting the stats. But a good portion of their whatever the latest cohort, 90% of their code is AI generated and it’s growing even faster. Yes, there will be tech debt and all that. If anything, science has to scale. But for the basic concept of theirs, which is you’re just trying to see if there is a market, guess what, this has changed how you can go. And what I was thinking about as I saw that was I don’t want to kind of call out this one entrepreneur that we had sort of invested in. So I won’t bring up his name and we’ll just kind of, we can call him Bob. Hey Bob. The value was in sort of what he knew and what he represented it. And that’s kind of poorly paraphrasing what you’re saying, but sort of the cred he brought to the situation. I think a lot of these tools kind of leverage that even further. We’ve had over the past five plus years, the growth of the audience. First entrepreneur, you have to understand the need and you have to understand an audience. And if you can bring those two together, it feels like the tools give you all the more chance to explore a market opportunity.

Ray Deck:
I think that’s totally right. The framework that I teach people over at State Change and that I’ve also put into the videos I have on the YouTube too. I talk about knowledge, reputation and wealth as being the three big assets of an intellectual entrepreneur or an intellectual company. It’s like what do you know? And technical knowledge matters in that too, like your ability to create code or what have you that can give you a longer lever. But like domain knowledge matters so much more for that and like what are you bringing to that. And then how much reputation do you have? How deeply do people trust you? And how many people trust you determines your ability to distribute that right to them. And to your point, the tools give us a longer lever to be able to serve more of those people as opposed to classically it was if you’re going to elevate your business, you’re just looking to serve just the cream of the crop, maybe the wealthiest of the clients or the largest the companies or what have you normal make your money. If you express yourself through software, you can serve a much wider audience and be able to help a whole lot more people, create a lot more value in the market and therefore also be able to capture more wealth as a result. And that can be far more money making. And that’s kind of what I’m looking for is like what allows people to use technology as a magnifier for their knowledge and their reputation. I think one of the challenges like we were talking about with any of these companies is they focus too much on the technical knowledge and not enough on business side or very importantly the reputation part. There’s nothing to work the lever with. You need a fulcrum too.

A.J. Lawrence:
How do you kind of work within State Change for people to kind of better understand what they do know and how to utilize that?

Ray Deck:
A lot of this is what other people say about you. I find that to be a really helpful way to find out what you know. The kinds of thing I find myself doing and helping people do is really getting three things right. So one is working more to think like a software developer in terms of the building of their business. And there’s Seymour Papert did a lot of work around technology education theory back in like 1980s or 1970s, 1980s. A neat thing is he kept on talking about how none of his ideas could work with the technology he had at the time, that it would take more friendly, better graphics, better responsiveness in order for it to work. But he talked about the importance of this idea that comes in when you’re a software developer, which I’ve learned over time.

Like I said, I started with political science and then eventually came more into tech. But the idea of a debugger’s mindset and the idea of being iterative and there’s a challenge I think for a lot of people, particularly as they get like you say in that mid-journey phase where you’re coming out of being told what to do and you’re not yet at the level of at least seeing yourself as having mastery. You probably do. You’re probably pretty close to it. But there is a phase you get to when you have enough confidence in your knowledge, you start trying things. And a debugger’s mindset is about being willing to experiment and being able to then leap forward. It’s not just like I’m supposed to have the answer, it’s what’s the question? Let’s go into the undiscovered country and find out what the right answer is going to be. And this is something that you see in software all the time because we get ourselves to a point where we can’t hold the whole thing in our head, right? It’s not like doing an arithmetic problem. It’s like this big piece of code that’s quite complicated in terms of its paths, how do we understand it? By experiencing it and then dialing back around. Now, the reason I bring this up is that this applies both to writing software using any of these tools we just described. Also applies to, I think that the building of one’s business, and that’s how you kind of crack that ceiling is being willing to try things that you don’t know are going to succeed. I need to just be improving and dialing in the quality of it. That’s like just getting the machine running. But the way that really achieves liftoff is through going where others haven’t gone and being able to get out of just the competitive mode. And that debugger’s mindset, I find, helps people both thinking about business but also once you start doing that, you start thinking about systems and you start thinking about how you can be expressing more of this in the form of software. So not just, hey, how do I hire more people? But wait, a machine could do this and you start imagining what could happen. And if you’re in the imagination business, now, you really look like an entrepreneur.

A.J. Lawrence:
And it’s actually really interesting the way you say that, because to be able to experiment, you actually have to have your business in a strong enough position already. Experimentation is the path to growth but you need to have a core business that actually provides your ability to fund the extra cycles. If it’s you, you either sleep less or whatever. Looking at the tools that are coming out, it feels like you can experiment so much less and you can create a stronger foundation just by a couple of conversations. Either how many people someone would have based on their business model, where they were in revenue, whatever the tools. Now I can look at the same type business four different ways and it’s usually the only thing I can kind of guess is based upon the age of the person. The older person I’m like, you’re probably doing this a little more traditional and you probably have 4.5 people per million dollars of type of business. You probably have this many. You probably have the traditional bottlenecks. Okay, they built something, they brought this, they’re utilizing tools. Now, how are you helping people re-recognize what the reputation can do through this experimentation?

Ray Deck:
What I have been doing particularly like in the consulting work that I’ve been doing lately as well as a lot of the sort of startup advisory work is really encouraging them to make content and get it out into the world. A lot of my credibility comes from the technology part, right? Because people know me for the technology part and I’ve got the office hours, what have you, that’s helped people make progress with that. But it’s also about getting people to have enough confidence in what they’re doing in the ideas they have. Because all the software stuff is about expressing your ideas through software, but you can also express those ideas through content. And the wonderful thing that people who have been in the professional services industry know is that when you put your best ideas into content and you just put them out into the market, people will be attracted to them and they’ll be attracted to you as a result. And then they are looking for things to buy from you. They say, oh, wait, that person, I now have some degree of trust in that. I’ve learned something. I’m smarter. I believe in this. Maybe I’ve even able to make a little bit of progress on my own as a result of hearing that idea. But if I could work with that person, I could get even more out of it. And this is a classic move for a lot of professional service organizations. Like when you have like the McKinsey Quarterly and you read the McKinsey Quarterly and then oh wait, now I want to go work with McKinsey & Company, right? The ideas that you have are the same ideas are causing you to say there’s an opportunity in software, and so you just give it away.

What I found is that a lot of people are they’re simultaneously afraid that someone else is going to steal it and they’re afraid that their idea isn’t really worth listening to. And those two ideas really can’t be true at the same time. And I find that both of them are really misplaced. Other people might or might not steal your idea, but the value isn’t in the idea. The value is in your credibility and your expertise that surrounds the idea. And this is why I say you go and create content. I encourage video, I encourage writing. I’m a big fan of Blair Enns’ idea that like that writing and publishing is like the absolute best way to win business. And it’s not sufficient for all of business, but oh my goodness. If you have one hour to spend on marketing, I’m a big believer that content marketing and building your personal brand to be the absolutely most powerful way of doing it. Then if you do that, you have more of a network to sell to. And those people are primed. They want to buy this from you and they want to buy the things related to those ideas from you. Right? So if you are a font of, as you put it, useless cultural knowledge, but you’re trying to sell building mathematical models, those two things aren’t quite in line, right?

So I snowboard regularly and I do my shorts from the ski lift. I find that when you do that, you get to play uneasy. You create more understanding and then that creates a dialogue also with the market. You were asking like, how do people know what they know? How do they know what’s valuable? They get the feedback from the market. Oh, wait, hey, that was a good idea. And that’s creating a positive reinforcement loop that then can guide their build. The line I’m often talking about is like what’s the hardest 5%? And really, what’s the 5% that matters? You mentioned before, like 90% of code being written by AI for at least the last decade, 90 plus percent of software wasn’t written at all. You’re going to use this huge network of packages that are available to you and you’re just going to compose them together and they’re going to run underneath you. What we’re doing is we’re taking the remaining 10% and we’re cutting sharply into that through saying there’s another thinner, much thinner than the packages layer, layer of AI that’s going on top of that. And then you’re able to orchestrate that even more finely. So the lever is getting longer. It’s a difference in degree, I would argue, not really in kind. And as that lever gets longer, it becomes even more important that that last layer that you’re bringing over the top is high value. And the high value part of that isn’t about being weirdly technical, unless what you’re doing is weirdly technical. It’s going to be about like what is that reflects your best ideas and your best expertise and manifested that in software. And then allowing the AI and allowing the preexisting package layer whatever to be doing the rest of that. And that’s the long lever that allows you to really create a lot of value from little old you as opposed to being limited to the number of people who you can help on a one-on-one basis.

A.J. Lawrence:
With State Change now you have someone in there, you have thousands of hours of dealing with different problems within it. The content from the office hours from other pieces, are you in a sense becoming part of that? You kind of come and deal with your problems.

Ray Deck:
I think that it’s kind of relates to the new way that we can use labor. I mean, you had someone on your podcast recently talking about accessing labor from the global labor market. The reason I bring up the idea of the global labor market is that it also brings up the idea of you can bring in just the right piece of labor at these various points. Thesis was that in order for you to have software in your organization, you need to hire someone or a team or what have you that do software for your organization. But now if more of that’s sitting in your head or sitting in the heads of the business people in your organization and you’re able to get more leverage with the tools than about having just a little bit of help with like the part that’s still weird technical alien, because machines are not people, being able to then cross that divide. And that’s kind of what State Change is about in terms of the services it provides, but also gets to how can we train a smarter AI not just on lots of code, that is code that people have written, but like how do you solve problems?

The other half of State Change is that one, we’re helping people. Second, we’re creating a content library where people can like see other problems have been solved and be able to see those mental models for it. But really it’s about the expression of mental model, that debugger’s mindset that then can be potentially re-applied back into the tooling to be able to then re-express that in form of software. So like in addition, sauce for the goose is also for the gander. Right? So I’m also looking at how this same kind of expertise and reputation applied first as service and then as content, can then through the lens of using AI technology also get then applied as product. And I think we’re going to see all sorts of creative and wonderful ways people are using this newer tech to create that kind of way to express value without requiring marginal time on their part. I’m seeing people using AI for being able to pull data from unstructured data. Like people have lots of notes, being able to take like your notes from hither, thither and yon and like get them into a CRM so that instead of you figuring out how to do the data entry into it, it’s just sort of getting in right. So that’s that idea of being able to give you access to your information through their insight of well, usually when people write notes like this, it sort of means this and if you will, it’s basically about code as prompt.

They don’t need to be learning how to be doing Python or whatever. It’s like, how do you coax chatgpt into figuring out what this document really means in a way that is going to be useful for your business? And that itself, that whispering aspect becomes really interest. I was actually hosting a founder today on State Change. We have a weekly guest lecture series and about half the time it’s an internal member talking about their own business. And his business is building a professional social network specifically for people in the film industry. The speed at which he’s been able to develop it and the doing it without having raised any capital has been remarkable. He has a very small team putting that together and making use both of the low code tools that allows them to build stuff faster, making use of a global labor market because he actually has a few developers who are working with Nigeria and making use of AI in a remarkably inexpensive way to be able to do tagging, create relationships that allow him to build a really useful professional social graph in a way that is specifically for that domain. And now he’s using his credibility within that domain, because he is like an indie movie producer, to be able to bring this value into the market.

Another one is a guy who used to do financial analysis for a number of PE companies and he’s building a leveraged buyout analyzer. So basically when private equity companies are looking at doing one of these highly financed, highly leveraged transactions in HLT, they need to get their numbers right and what needs to be true in order for this to work and being able to get that data in and be able to get it processed iteratively. Oh, well, what happens, we adjust this number. How well does that work? What does that mean for the thing? What if we introduce this instrument? Well, instead of having be a couple of days, it can just be a snap of a finger because you’re just waiting for the thing to process which takes about 30 seconds as opposed to waiting for someone to be doing all that. Now that’s because he has his experience of like 20 years as like an Excel jockey, but he’s now re expressing himself through. Originally he was actually building mostly in low code, now he’s using code with the help of AI because in addition to the tools, helping him build the tools help him learn how to be a better developer, how to think more like a machine. And as he was pushing the boundaries of what the low code tools would let him do in terms of complicated financial analysis, he’s like, wait, oh wait, that’s all there is to Python. Because he had learned the language and the metaphors and the way to think with the machine through using the tools. It’s like the bike with training wheels and then you take off the training wheels and like that’s sort of the journey he’s been on in a matter of months, not years. Fairly high value and sophisticated domain. There are others, I mean there are lots of examples I’m really so proud of, like the people who I get to work with. Those are like examples of like how they’re using the things most special about them and then being able to express that through software that lets them create a lot more value for their markets.

A.J. Lawrence:
These are the things that I think are going to be interesting. Now, where do you see as this advances? How that impacts business? Are you only a few out there? Is that crossover or are we a new golden age?

Ray Deck:
I’m super excited. I think there was an argument that like retail was all over in 2000 because Webvan was going to make it all the way and it wasn’t Webvan. Things change. Like one should not expect that your business is going to stand still. One shouldn’t expect that your market is going to stand still and it’s going to be affected by this technology and affected by others as well. I was recently talking to a guy who was talking about the expected declining supply of rare earths on the planet and how that’s change the way that we treat technology and also the way we treat like reclamation of hardware and that kind of business, which I thought was neat. Demographics are going to change. There’s going there. There’s a much wealthier generation that is on the rise in China and in India, younger generation is in Iran and how quickly it’s growing. So demographics are changing as well.

And the reason I’m bringing it up is that like technology is an easy thing for us to focus on because it’s in the news and it’s right next to us. But change just keeps on happening and it’s always the error that people think that today is like nothing that ever came before and that today is the same as everything that came before. It’s changing underneath us. So the question of golden age or what have you, I think it’ll be different. It will be really interesting. I think there’s a lot of money to be made. If you’re paying attention to what’s going around you in the market and you are seeing the opportunities around you and you are experimenting with those opportunities, you are in a far better position to be able to make money from those opportunities and succeed with them with a general expectation that most of your competitors probably won’t. Most are sitting on whatever they’re doing. More people are inactive than they are active. I appreciate that’s a little bit of a generic answer, but I think that the idea. Like AGI is going to make everything different is I think a bit overwrought. But that it’s not going to change anything is I think massively underplaying it. The way we live in the middle between those two things is to be aware.

A.J. Lawrence:
What would you give as the main piece of advice to be able to stay involved and to really explore what is going on?

Ray Deck:
If some were just starting today like hey, how could I go and start to create code? That I think would be meaningful. I think natural language is the most normal way to do it. And using these tools can be really remarkable for that. And I like them more than I like the things that are specifically about building software, because it keeps you in the zone of like, how is this going to create value for me? And you find yourself making something that’s going to create value for you. Or like take this information, turn it into a chart, and then it can figure out what kind of charts can be most useful for you. And then that’s using some code and that’s expressing through software. And then you start turning that loop. The job of software, the job of technology is necessarily automation. And as we think about that more, it becomes more powerful. There’s this idea called model context protocol, which is MCP, is three letters you might have heard a little bit about. And the exciting thing about it is this idea that you can take various pieces of software out there and make them tools that the AI can use on behalf of a customer. I have a Zapier MCB server. It can do things. Like I can say, let’s go create a piece of code, let’s go submit it to GitHub, let’s register it in my project management system and then send me an email with like what kind of happened here today with an end of day report. And I didn’t have to go get a particular piece of software that does all those things. They’re kind of coming together much like the World Wide Web was just made of a protocol. You can be doing the same thing with AI. And so the idea of, wait, are you going to go use AI to make a SaaS? Or are you discovering how AI can be the user of software? And then when you start thinking about that, then you’re thinking. I think usefully about how you are either on the consumer side or on the vendor side of that. Are you building with AI or can you be expressing your business in a way that AI can consume and it becomes your customer? That’s the reason why I talk about like using the chat. Because if you sort of start talking to AI as being that center of gravity, as being that decision engine, then you start to see more opportunities for how your expertise could be adding value in there. And the way it could add value in either side of that divide will hopefully fill you with inspiration as to what you can do and that allows you to start acting like a mentor.

A.J. Lawrence:
That is brilliant. And yeah, Ray, I greatly appreciate it. And if you’re out there listening to Ray kind of walk through, go check out some of the videos. Definitely State Change can really help you is if you are sort of starting to wonder how to deal with this. Do you have technical problems that you think could actually go further? Because sometimes I think it is making the problems even more difficult is actually fun if you can find a way to actually get to it. Not just bad, bad, bad cold code, as I have a tendency of doing. State Change is a great resource to kind of dive into and find other entrepreneurs who are probably dealing with issues that you’re trying to consider of how to face. And Ray is brilliant and I think you’ll learn a lot from his office hours, if not much more of his other content out there. So go check it out.

Ray, thank you. This was great. And I’ve already like trying not to sit there and write on the side of the thing without moving things. Like, I gotta capture this idea. You gave me a bunch of ideas of how to look at something. So thank you so much for coming on the show today. I really, really appreciate it.

Ray Deck:
Thank you so much, A.J. This was great.

A.J. Lawrence:
Hey everyone, thank you so much for listening. Please go check out State Change AI. Is there any place else people can go check out?

Ray Deck:
Check out YouTube. They’re starting to get serious about expressing themselves with software like we talked about. I would encourage them to check out State Change AI.

A.J. Lawrence:
All right, everyone, thank you so much for listening today. I really appreciate it. I can’t wait to come back again. Have a great day. Bye-bye everyone.

Beyond 8 Figures
How to Build Trust with Storytelling (Even If You’re Not a “Natural”) with Karen Eber
    0:00
      34:07
        All Episodes

      How to Build Trust with Storytelling (Even If You’re Not a “Natural”) with Karen Eber

      Loading...

      34:07

      How to Build Wealth Through Acquisition Entrepreneurship with Ben Kelly

      Loading...

      36:29

      How to Scale a Business with Clarity – Lessons from Sean Si’s SEO Journey

      Loading...

      58:41

      How to Invest After Selling a Business (Without Losing It All) with Ben Fraser of Aspen Funds

      Loading...

      36:29

      How to Scale a Tech-Enabled Business with AI, No-Code, and Reputation with Ray Deck, State Change

      Loading...

      34:04

      From TikTok to Global Sales: How Kanessa Muluneh Scaled a Fashion Brand Without Shopify

      Loading...

      34:47

      Scaling Smarter: How to Leverage Global Talent for Business Growth with Kevin Ashcroft

      Loading...

      45:08

      How to Use Global Talent & Automation to Scale Your Business with Jon Matzner

      Loading...

      42:30

      The Hard Truth About Business Success – Brad Pedersen’s Billion-Dollar Journey

      Loading...

      34:30

      Breaking Through the 7-Figure Growth Ceiling: Solving Common Marketing & Sales Bottlenecks

      Loading...

      11:52

      Skip the Struggle, Buy the Growth with Jason Ehrlich, Fruition Capital

      Loading...

      44:53

      Optimize Your Mind: How Meditation & a High-Tech Device Are Elevating My Entrepreneurial Game

      Loading...

      16:17

      Meet the Expert Partners Behind Our $38,000+ Business Growth Giveaway

      Loading...

      8:30

      What It Takes to Build and Sell Multi-Million Dollar Businesses with Nikolas Hulewsky, CoFounders

      Loading...

      33:47

      How a Fractional CFO Can Transform Your Business with Carla Titus, Wealth and Worth Within

      Loading...

      38:06

      Learn from my Coach, From Losing $100K to Selling for $92M

      Loading...

      45:26

      Beyond 8 Figures Special: 2024's Most Powerful Lessons for Scaling Your Business

      Loading...

      17:12

      Custom Apps in 45 Minutes? AI Makes It Possible with Kevin Ashcroft

      Loading...

      1:03:19

      From Spreadsheet Chaos to Financial Freedom with Tyson Koska, OnTrajectory

      Loading...

      29:05

      What Happens When You Stop Chasing Profits and Start Building Value with Gabe Galvez, Verde Holdings

      Loading...

      45:46

      Transform Your Hiring System, Go Global for Talent with Kevin Ashcroft

      Loading...

      25:38

      Build an 8-Figure Business That Runs Without You with Reg Zeller, CaneKast

      Loading...

      1:03:34

      Redefining Strategy and Decision-Making with AI with Hamza Mudassir, Strategize.inc

      Loading...

      51:45

      Why Buying a Business Beats Building One with Walker Deibel, Acquisition Lab

      Loading...

      41:47

      Build a Business That Grows Without Burning You Out with Bruce Eckfeldt

      Loading...

      35:49

      Build a Business That Supports Your Lifestyle with Brian Keane, Brian Keane Fitness LLC

      Loading...

      52:42

      Business Growth through Strategic Acquisitions with Lisa Forrest, Live Oak Bank

      Loading...

      39:48

      Playing with AI to Grow with A.J. Lawrence

      Loading...

      23:00

      Strategic Moves to Secure a Large Exit with Mac Lackey, ExitDNA

      Loading...

      34:42

      Building a Sellable Business from Day One with Rachel Murphy, The Grafter

      Loading...

      37:47

      Match Your Strengths with Profitable Business Opportunities with Ray Titus, United Franchise Group

      Loading...

      58:09

      The Strategic Use of Content for Business Growth with John Hall, Relevance

      Loading...

      33:57

      Think Smart, Go global, Build Your Life with Bakari Akil, Nomad Noir

      Loading...

      37:45

      Balancing Profit and Social Impact with Dominnique Karetsos, The Healthy Pleasure Group

      Loading...

      43:34

      Leadership Tactics That Drive Sustainable Growth with Adam Sandman, Inflectra Corporation

      Loading...

      40:56

      Crafting a Secure Financial Future with Mike Brown, Unbreakable Wealth

      Loading...

      32:24

      Creating Impactful Business Models with Mike Smith, Rabble Mill

      Loading...

      53:14

      Mastering Strategic Adaptability in Business with Austin Linney, Crementum Capital Holdings

      Loading...

      40:17

      What is Global Talent and How Can You Hire Them For Your Business?

      Loading...

      45:06

      Transform Your Wealth with Diversification with Ben Fraser, Aspen Funds

      Loading...

      36:34

      Leveraging AI for Business Insights with Suneera Madhani, Worth AI

      Loading...

      34:40

      Using Core Values to Influence Strategic Decisions with Ray Mendez, Masa&Boz

      Loading...

      43:38

      Crushing It in Real Estate with Karen Briscoe, 5 Minute Success

      Loading...

      23:07

      Building a Business That Reflects Your Values with Amanda Thomson, Noughty

      Loading...

      34:36

      How Podcasts Boost Your Reach and Revenue with Lyndsay Phillips, Smooth Business Podcasting

      Loading...

      38:56

      Building Success Through Ethical Acquisitions with Richard Parker, Diomo Corporation

      Loading...

      54:52

      Create a Real Estate Empire from Scratch with John Casmon, Casmon Capital Group

      Loading...

      41:15

      Do Epic Sh*t With Cool People with Michael Juergens, Bhutan Wine Company

      Loading...

      1:20:37

      From Freelance Gigs to a Thriving Agency with Steve Maly, Maly Marketing

      Loading...

      36:52

      Bouncing Back and Rebuilding Stronger with Brad Pedersen, Lomi

      Loading...

      34:30

      Growing Your Niche: Unlocking Explosive Business with Eric Bandholz, Beardbrand

      Loading...

      42:01

      Grow Your Business Against All Odds with Feras Alhlou, Start Up With Feras

      Loading...

      36:50

      Visionary Mindset: Unlock Epic Success with Justin Breen of BrEpic Network

      Loading...

      58:52

      Elevate Your Health for Game-Changing Business Growth with Biohacking Expert Tanessa Shears

      Loading...

      38:56

      Biz Bite 8: Unlocking African Markets with the multimillionaire Kanessa Muluneh

      Loading...

      11:10

      Unlock Millionaire Sales Strategies with Rylee Meek's The Social Dynamic Selling System

      Loading...

      58:06

      Biz Bite 7: Boosting Business Efficiency with AI - Kevin Surace of Appvance.ai

      Loading...

      12:13

      Reach Your Highest Potential through Community and Accountability with Tanya Alvarez of OwnersUP

      Loading...

      35:52

      Unlock Global Talent to Win Locally with Jon Matzner of Lazy Leverage

      Loading...

      45:08

      Rewire Your Mind, Revamp Your Business With Paola Telfer of Sens.ai

      Loading...

      44:39

      Biz Bite 6: Profit, Impact, Freedom - Mikael Dia, Funnelytics

      Loading...

      7:29

      How to Create Thriving Partnerships for Growth with Charles Byrd of Pure JV

      Loading...

      36:54

      How This Ex-Firefighter Is Transforming Modern Health: Forge Your Best Self with Sam Tejada of Liquivida

      Loading...

      39:45

      Biz Bites 5: Building Business Infrastructure with Eugene Ravitsky, FactoryPure

      Loading...

      10:31

      Learn How PE Unlocks Explosive Growth with Adam Coffey of CEO Advisory Guru

      Loading...

      49:18

      Biz Bites 4: Overcoming Health Care System Inefficiencies through AI with Renee Dua, Together by Renee

      Loading...

      11:19

      From Passions to Profit: Shaping eCommerce Success with Chloë Thomas of eCommerce MasterPlan

      Loading...

      32:39

      Hired a Chess Coach, Grew His Business: Lessons from Growing from Phil Alves of Dev Squad

      Loading...

      39:32

      Biz Bites 3: Ending The Entrepreneur Burnout with Philip Blackett, Dream Business Makeover

      Loading...

      9:14

      A Fitness Phenomenon: How Ex-Minor Leaguer Created a Franchise Empire with Devan Kline of Burn Boot Camp

      Loading...

      43:15

      Biz Bites 2: How to Craft Timeless Copy That Sells with Will Green

      Loading...

      6:48

      The Long Journey to Overnight Success with Kim and Lance Burney of Mighty Carver

      Loading...

      40:39

      Biz Bites 1: Entrepreneur's Dilemma: SMB vs Startup with Amit Garg

      Loading...

      11:34

      Spreading Wealth Through Acquisition Entrepreneurship with Jason Ehrlich of Fruition Capital

      Loading...

      44:35

      Build Your Legacy through Real Estate Investing Brandon Cobb of HBG Capital

      Loading...

      44:56

      Key Learnings from 2023 with A.J. Lawrence of JAR Group

      Loading...

      20:57

      New Year, New Heights: The Best of 'Beyond 8 Figures' 2023

      Loading...

      26:50

      From Immigrant to Multimilionare: Bridging Borders & Building a Global Empire with Kanessa Muluneh of Mulu

      Loading...

      34:50

      Harnessing AI for Maximum Performance with AI Expert Kevin Surace of Appvance.ai

      Loading...

      45:20

      5 Proven Ways for Increasing Business Efficiency with A.J. Lawrence

      Loading...

      7:31

      Simplifying Business Operations for Sustainable Growth with Mikael Dia, Funnelytics

      Loading...

      56:12

      Incremental Growth for Long-Lasting Success with Eugene Ravitsky, FactoryPure

      Loading...

      28:18

      Supercharging Business Growth through a Personal Mission with Renee Dua, Together by Renee

      Loading...

      35:54

      Sustainable Growth through Strategic Course Correction with Philip Blackett, Dream Business Makeover

      Loading...

      42:54

      3 Principles for Effective Business Copywriting with Will Green, Copy Road

      Loading...

      37:18

      Aligning Business Goals and Purpose with Amit Garg, Tau Ventures

      Loading...

      41:17

      Master Acquisition Entrepreneurship as a Digital Nomad with Bakari Akil, Nomad Noir

      Loading...

      35:43

      Using Generative AI to Drive Customer Value with Nick Desai, Together by Renee

      Loading...

      34:27

      Transform Your Business Through The Power of Storytelling with Karen Eber, Eber Leadership Group

      Loading...

      34:30

      Leverage AI Tools to Empower Leadership with Sid Pandiya, Kona

      Loading...

      42:49

      The 6 Key Steps to Selling a Business with Kirk Michie, Candor Advisors

      Loading...

      48:49

      Inspiring Growth Through Intentional Leadership with Adam Sandman, Inflectra Corporation

      Loading...

      41:26

      Scaling Your Franchise Business with Brian Beers, Prenlyn Automotive Group

      Loading...

      33:22

      Diversify Your Portfolio with Franchise Opportunities with Jon Ostenson, FranBridge Consulting

      Loading...

      31:45

      Optimize Sleep for Peak Performance with Mollie Eastman (McGlocklin), Sleep Is a Skill

      Loading...

      50:00

      Business Purpose For Growth And Impact with Chris Younger, Class VI Partners

      Loading...

      39:23

      Leverage Your Professional Growth with Samantha Kempe, IMMO

      Loading...

      27:32

      Build a Successful Marketplace Business with Juho Makkonen, Sharetribe

      Loading...

      36:56

      Building Wealth Through Acquisition Entrepreneurship with Ben Kelly, Acquisition Ace

      Loading...

      35:49

      Simplify Your Business for Growth with Margo Crawford, Business Sherpa Group

      Loading...

      40:14

      Scale Up Your Business with a Coach with Jess Stewart, Jess Stewart LLC

      Loading...

      34:53

      Achieving Success Through Innovative Thinking with Curro Romero, Vimbu

      Loading...

      43:42

      How to Franchise a Business with Ray Titus, United Franchise Group

      Loading...

      57:38

      Embrace Networking for Business Success with Shiloh Johnson, ComplYant

      Loading...

      41:00

      Transform Your Business with Mindset Coaching with Elliot Roe, Primed Mind

      Loading...

      35:17

      Finding Opportunities in Underrepresented Markets with Billie Simmons, Daylight

      Loading...

      37:04

      Continuous Learning for Business Growth with Scot Wingo, Spiffy

      Loading...

      47:43

      Problem Solving to Serve Needed Audiences with Jo Goodall, Luna

      Loading...

      36:16

      Maximizing Business Potential with Global Talent with John Jonas, Onlinejobs.ph

      Loading...

      36:55

      The Business of Elderly Care with Annalee Rae Kruger, Care Right Inc.

      Loading...

      43:51

      Mastering Remote Team Leadership with Liam Martin, Time Doctor

      Loading...

      51:52

      Strategies for Buying a Business with Elliott Holland, Guardian Due Diligence

      Loading...

      54:50

      Embrace Change to Create Positive Impact with Michael Kuech, Your Super

      Loading...

      31:20

      Engaging Storytelling for Business with Jude Charles, Jude Charles Co.

      Loading...

      52:14

      Turning Challenges into Business Opportunities with Ben Leonard, eCom Brokers

      Loading...

      48:08

      Continuous Growth on the Entrepreneurial Journey with Matthijs Welle, Mews

      Loading...

      33:06

      Leadership Strategies for Collaborative Culture with Maxwell Reed, Kingdom of Something

      Loading...

      58:25

      Navigating Supply Chain Challenges with Daniel Curtis, Vices

      Loading...

      34:51

      Culture-Driven Business Growth with Leon Winkes, IWB

      Loading...

      48:44

      Maximize Your Profitability with Kevin Bees, ProfitHive

      Loading...

      37:01

      How To Make Sustainable Investment Decisions with Felice Verduyn-van Weegen, EQT

      Loading...

      36:22

      Building An Effective Mental Healthcare System with Mackenzie Drazan, MiResource

      Loading...

      38:32

      Finding Your Voice in the Business Acquisition Space with Lisa Forrest, Live Oak Bank

      Loading...

      45:44

      Navigating Uncertainty on the Entrepreneurial Journey with Sartou Djibril, Enlight Ed

      Loading...

      54:04

      Build a Life Outside of Your Business to Avoid Burnout with Sean Si, Seo Hacker

      Loading...

      53:21

      Putting Deliberate Entrepreneurship into Practice with A.J. Lawrence, The JAR Group

      Loading...

      25:31

      Scaling Success with an Employee-First Company Culture with Justin Fenchel, BeatBox Beverages

      Loading...

      39:43

      Stay Motivated with Clear Goals with Lilia Stoyanov, Transformify

      Loading...

      46:01

      End-of-Year Reflection with A.J. Lawrence, The JAR Group

      Loading...

      21:23

      Welcome to the Festive Season with A.J. Lawrence, The JAR Group

      Loading...

      6:18

      Using Community Collaboration for Business Growth with Craig Swanson, CreativeLive

      Loading...

      58:30

      Everything Is A Learning Opportunity with Martyna Lewinska, Fiat Republic

      Loading...

      30:30

      The Art of Storytelling with Tracy MacNeal, Materna Medical

      Loading...

      47:16

      The Keys to A Successful Business Exit with Laurie Barkman, SmallDotBig LLC

      Loading...

      52:36

      The Great Decentralization with Eleanor Beaton, SafiMedia

      Loading...

      53:31

      Do “Impossible” Things to Scale Your Passions with Mike Smith, Rabble Mill

      Loading...

      58:31

      Fighting for Gender Diversity in Tech with Dora Palfi, imagiLabs

      Loading...

      34:05

      Enhancing Employee Empowerment with Ray Kimble, Kuma LLC

      Loading...

      42:38

      From Big Mistakes to Big Success with Reg Zeller, CaneKast

      Loading...

      1:08:14

      Surround Yourself with Winners with Kevin Lee, eMarketing Association

      Loading...

      42:24

      Experience Entrepreneurial Growth Outside of Your Comfort Zone with Dru Riley, Trends.vc

      Loading...

      40:35

      Leverage Your Network for Lasting Business Growth with Neel Parekh, MadeThis

      Loading...

      46:16

      Why You Need A Business Coach to Get Unstuck with Jon Dwoskin, The Jon Dwoskin Experience

      Loading...

      32:45

      Investing for Good with Justin Cochrane, Carbon Streaming

      Loading...

      31:19

      Overcoming Your Financial Fears with Melissa Houston, The Fractional CFO Agency

      Loading...

      26:12

      Democratizing Entrepreneurship Through Community Building with Jason Wong, Doe Beauty

      Loading...

      33:55

      Fostering Autonomy for Business Growth with Matteo Cervelli, Urania

      Loading...

      52:52

      Maximizing Marketing Power to Create a Thriving Business with Tyson Koska, OnTrajectory

      Loading...

      37:56

      Gain Traction Through Business Mistakes with Roman Beylin, DueDilio

      Loading...

      28:29

      Building More Inclusive Business Systems with Hana Mohan, Magic Bell

      Loading...

      43:04

      The Do’s and Don'ts of Acquisition Entrepreneurship with Elliott Holland, Guardian Due Diligence

      Loading...

      48:23

      The Realities of Scaling A Small Business with Callum Laing, MBH Corporation PLC

      Loading...

      28:48

      A 5-Step Framework for Intentional Growth with Ryan Tansom, Arkona

      Loading...

      48:24

      Taking Risks to Create Impact with Nik Tsoukales, Realtop

      Loading...

      42:56

      Embrace Adversity to Grow as a Leader with Annie Hyman-Pratt, Leading Edge Teams

      Loading...

      42:01

      Scaling Innovation for Future-Oriented Growth with Krish Ramineni, Fireflies

      Loading...

      37:15

      Reducing Business Complexity with Profit Platforms with Rob Braiman, Cogent Analytics

      Loading...

      52:30

      How Changing Perspective Creates New Opportunities with Craig Cecilio, DiversyFund

      Loading...

      34:46

      Get Your Business Back on Track with John F. Kettley, Sales Masters Guild

      Loading...

      36:31

      Overcoming the Fear of Failure with Chris Shipferling, Global Wired Advisors

      Loading...

      45:14

      Innovative Disruption for a Better World with Nima Sophia Tisdall, Blue Lobster

      Loading...

      34:32

      Rebranding Yourself from Founder to CEO with Jamie Lieberman, Hashtag Legal

      Loading...

      33:49

      Building a Boundary-Breaking Business with Dominnique Karetsos, The Healthy Pleasure Group

      Loading...

      52:30

      Customer Centric Brand Building with Kelley Higney, Bug Bite Thing

      Loading...

      35:24

      Outsourcing As A Growth Strategy For SMEs with Max Fisch, Real Estate Project Solution

      Loading...

      40:14

      Why Timing Is Key When Building A Brand with Fran Maier, BabyQuip

      Loading...

      43:22

      Delegating Tasks To Sustain Success with Michelle Penczak, Squared Away

      Loading...

      27:55

      Continuously Adapting To Enable Transformation with Maha Achour, Metawave Corporation

      Loading...

      37:51

      Drive Continuous Business Growth By Building The Right Team with Robert Hurst, Bengeho

      Loading...

      34:01

      Using Franchising To Invest In Local Businesses with Kenny Rose, FranShares

      Loading...

      40:44

      Solving Difficult Problems With Curiosity with Kushal Nahata, FarEye.

      Loading...

      39:57

      Changing Lives Through Purpose-Driven Entrepreneurship with Kara Goldin, Hint

      Loading...

      39:10

      Value Creation with the Future in Mind with Gabe Galvez, Verde Holdings

      Loading...

      53:40

      Reverse-Engineer Your Entrepreneurial Success with Ramon Van Meer, Alpha Paw.

      Loading...

      41:40

      Team Building For Business Growth with Anthony Hayes, The Hayes Initiative.

      Loading...

      41:38

      Alternative Investments and Acquisition Entrepreneurship with Stefan von Imhof, Alts.co

      Loading...

      59:37

      The Secret To Intrapreneur Success with Andres Moran, Wunderkind

      Loading...

      33:01

      Innovating relationship wellness with Jenny Holmström, Coupleness

      Loading...

      32:28

      Helping Employees Thrive in Tech Sector with Joseph Fung, Uvaro

      Loading...

      39:24

      Putting Profit First In Your Business with Rocky Lalvani, Profit Answer Man

      Loading...

      39:22

      Creating Generational Wealth with Mike Boyd, The Business of Family

      Loading...

      47:38

      Driving Profit with Mergers and Acquisitions with Jeremy Harbour, The Harbour Club

      Loading...

      45:29

      Using Delegation to Drive Business Growth with Chris Ronzio, Trainual

      Loading...

      36:15

      The Life-Changing Impact Of Mission-Driven Companies with Nick Desai, HeyRenee

      Loading...

      46:03

      Why Personal Growth Is The Cornerstone Of Business Success With Russ Perry, Design Pickle

      Loading...

      44:00

      Fighting Climate Change With Finance and Technology Solutions With Alex Wright-Gladstein, Sphere

      Loading...

      42:22

      Giving Up Control For Greater Business Growth With Brett Gilliland, Elite Entrepreneurs

      Loading...

      39:51

      Using Intelligent Debates To Drive Innovation With Clea Conner, Intelligence Squared US Debates

      Loading...

      48:24

      Aligning Your Team With The Company’s Vision with Kathy Hannun, Dandelion Energy

      Loading...

      36:20

      Building An Effective Brand Strategy with Ray Mendez, Masa&Boz

      Loading...

      48:36

      Seamless Process Automation for Smarter Business Growth With Neeti Mehta Shukla, Automation Anywhere

      Loading...

      30:29

      What if Your Business Was Your Joy Box? With Amy Ransdell, REVA Global

      Loading...

      42:22

      Your Business Needs You To Go On Vacation with A.J. Lawrence, Beyond 8 Figures

      Loading...

      30:49

      What Does It Mean to Build an Intention-led Business with A.J. Lawrence, Beyond 8 Figures

      Loading...

      52:11

      Establishing Financial Well-Being as an Entrepreneur with Henry Daas, FQ: Financial Intelligence

      Loading...

      1:06:09

      Building A Stronger Business By Doing Less With Pete Martin, AskMyBoard

      Loading...

      41:46

      Building a First to Market Business with Marcello Leone, Bevcanna

      Loading...

      44:50

      Turning Leads into Customers with Shaun Clark, High Level

      Loading...

      53:09

      Hack Business Growth By Building a Product You Would Use with Jeff Epstein, Onboard.io

      Loading...

      38:50

      How Being Flexible Can Trigger Business Growth with A.J. Lawrence

      Loading...

      49:24

      Building a People-First Company with Natalie Nagele, Wildbit

      Loading...

      46:54

      Ending Poverty Through Entrepreneurship with Dr. Velma Trayham, Thinkzilla

      Loading...

      26:27

      Build a Better Business Using Psychology with Aaron Hurst, Imperative

      Loading...

      40:42

      What Does the Future of Work Look Like with Stephanie Nadi Olson

      Loading...

      44:25

      Making the Most of Your Entrepreneurial Journey with A.J. Lawrence

      Loading...

      30:13

      Sell More While Spending Less Through Channels with Stewart Townsend

      Loading...

      1:05:26

      This episode is about YOU (a 5-minute update)

      Loading...

      6:11

      Make Acquisition A Part Of Your Strategy with Walker Deibel

      Loading...

      38:27

      Why Outsourcing Work Will Help Grow Your Business with Kevin Ashcroft

      Loading...

      43:13

      How To 7X Your Business’ Value with John Warrillow

      Loading...

      35:29

      Build an Exit Strategy Mindset Today with Mac Lackey

      Loading...

      40:07

      The Rise of Acquisition Entrepreneurship with Parham Parastaran

      Loading...

      57:27

      Gaining Clarity as an Entrepreneur with Matthew Korban

      Loading...

      59:38

      How to Delegate Work and Hire Effectively with Nathan Hirsch

      Loading...

      40:03

      How to Have a Happy Life as an Entrepreneur with Will Moore

      Loading...

      44:02

      Creating Owner Independence with David Finkel

      Loading...

      1:08:13

      Creating an 8-figure Business in the Renewable Energy Industry with Marek Zmyslowski

      Loading...

      1:19:06

      How to Grow and Scale Your Business with Chris Guerriero

      Loading...

      1:17:03

      Share What You Know With the World with Mitch Russo

      Loading...

      58:19

      It Starts Inside You with Adam Hergenrother

      Loading...

      1:13:19

      Experience Outweighs Enthusiasm Every Time with Steven Sashen, Xero Shoes

      Loading...

      1:33:13

      Get a Clear Picture of What You Actually Do with Jonny Cooper

      Loading...

      35:41

      Use Consumer Accessibility to Your Advantage with David Schottenstein

      Loading...

      35:40

      Scale Your Business by Knowing the “Why” with Diane Prince

      Loading...

      52:39

      Our Vision For Beyond 8 Figures

      Loading...

      30:11

      We Bought B8F!

      Loading...

      31:01

      8 Figures with Matthew Korban from protecting his house with a rifle in Lebanon to an award winning business

      Loading...

      27:24

      $321 Million Dollar Exit From Restaurant Delivery, Will Moore CEO of Moore Momentum

      Loading...

      59:52

      $300M+ Houston Curtis, The Billion Dollar Hollywood Heist

      Loading...

      1:08:39

      $100 Million Business | Marek Zmyslowski, Investing in Africa

      Loading...

      59:13

      $10M+ | Mac Lackey Started, Scaled & Sold 6 Businesses and Raised Over $75 Million in Capital

      Loading...

      1:03:51

      $10M+ 2 Businesses – Susie Carder, CEO | SD Consulting

      Loading...

      1:00:32

      $10M+ Annual Revenue – Annie Hyman Pratt, CEO | Executive Consultant Leading Edge Teams |The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf Family

      Loading...

      53:36

      $10+ Million in Annual Revenue – Rich Schefren, Strategic Profits

      Loading...

      53:38

      $10+ Million in Annual Revenue – Rod Khleif, Lifetime Cash Flow Podcast

      Loading...

      53:16

      $11.5 Million Annual Revenue – Nick Bogacz, Caliente Pizza & Drafthouse

      Loading...

      53:17

      $18M Exit, Chris Guerriero, Executive Fitness Club

      Loading...

      52:04

      $10M+ Exits – David Finkel, Multiple Companies

      Loading...

      53:17

      $100M+ Exit – Minnie Ingersoll, Shift

      Loading...

      53:57

      Rebecca Costa, Dazai Advertising Inc.

      Loading...

      54:07

      $10M in Annual Revenue – TK Kader, ToutApp

      Loading...

      54:15

      Recapping the Quarter

      Loading...

      24:08

      Steve Olsher, Liquor.com

      Loading...

      25:58

      $140M in Revenue – Dave Woodward, ClickFunnels

      Loading...

      54:17

      $100M Exits – Kevin Harrington, several companies

      Loading...

      54:18

      $200M+ Annually – Chris Cicchinelli, Pure Romance

      Loading...

      53:41

      $20M Annually – Dr. Angela Lauria, The Author Incubator

      Loading...

      54:11

      $50M Exit – David Schottenstein, Astor & Black

      Loading...

      54:16

      $13M in Annual Revenue – Steven Sashen, Xero Shoes

      Loading...

      54:18

      $37M+ in Revenue – Adam Hergenrother, Adam Hergenrother Companies

      Loading...

      54:23

      $16M+ in Revenue – Doug Morneau, Real Marketing Real Fast

      Loading...

      54:17

      $100M+ in Annual Revenue – Klee Irwin, Irwin Naturals

      Loading...

      54:19

      $50M+ in Annual Revenue – Dr. Lori Barr, The Doctor’s Mentor

      Loading...

      54:18

      $100M+ Exits and IPOs – Kenneth Aldrich, multiple companies

      Loading...

      54:17

      $2.5B+ in Assets – Dwayne Clark, Aegis Living

      Loading...

      54:18

      $300M+ in Revenue – Cameron Mitchell, Cameron Mitchell Restaurants

      Loading...

      54:17

      $1B+ in Assets – Andres Pira, Blue Horizon Developments

      Loading...

      54:14

      $20M+ in Annual Revenue – Steve Gray, Primal Labs

      Loading...

      54:16

      $5B Exits – Jeff Saling, Exited 3 Companies

      Loading...

      54:16

      $10M+ in Annual Revenue – Aaron Young Runs Multiple Companies

      Loading...

      54:18

      $80M+ Exit – Michael Coles, Great American Cookie Company

      Loading...

      36:56

      $10M+ in Annual Revenue – Nathan Hirsch, Freee Up

      Loading...

      39:57

      $10M+ Exit – Mark Timm Exited 7 Businesses

      Loading...

      49:13

      $10M+ in annual revenue – Chalene Johnson

      Loading...

      50:58

      Being resourceful with Michael Houlihan, Barefoot Wines

      Loading...

      54:16

      $10M+ in annual revenue – Ryan Levesque, ASK Method

      Loading...

      54:16

      $40M+ in annual revenue – Tony Falkenstein, Just Water Intl.

      Loading...

      54:18

      $25M in annual revenue – Kisha Mays, Just Fearless

      Loading...

      54:18

      $40M Exit – Frank Shamrock, Strike Force

      Loading...

      54:17

      $10M+ in annual revenue – Jonathan Cronstedt Runs Kajabi

      Loading...

      54:17

      $10M+ in annual revenue – Garrett White Runs Wake Up Warrior Which Generates

      Loading...

      54:17

      $30M in annual revenue – Mark Evans, American Wealth Builders, Cash Flow Lead Gen

      Loading...

      54:42

      $30M in annual revenue – Mike O’Hagan, MiniMovers, Shore360, and MikesBusinessTours

      Loading...

      54:41

      $10M in annual revenue – Lee Richter, Richter Communication & Design Group

      Loading...

      54:41

      $10M in annual revenue – Nyasha Gwatidzo, Banya

      Loading...

      30:35

      $10M+ Exit –  Parham Parastaran, Car-X Tire and Auto

      Loading...

      54:19

      $10M Exit – Björn Öste, Dynasoft

      Loading...

      54:16

      $2B Exit – Stuart Taylor, Taylor Nelson and Associates

      Loading...

      54:17

      $10M+ Exit – Chip Conley, Joie de Vivre Hospitality

      Loading...

      54:19

      $50M in annual revenue – Mike McDerment, Freshbooks

      Loading...

      54:40

      $10M+ in annual revenue- Sabri Suby, King Kong

      Loading...

      54:41

      $36M in annual revenue- Marx Acosta-Rubio, Onestop

      Loading...

      54:40

      $83M Exit- Sharran Srivatsaa, Teles

      Loading...

      54:38

      $30M in annual revenue- Colin Wayne, Redline Steel

      Loading...

      54:40

      $50M in revenue- Steve Layton, Layton Groups

      Loading...

      54:38

      Multiple 8 and 9 Figure Exits – Roland Frasier

      Loading...

      54:39

      $10+ M Exit- Dan Kuschell

      Loading...

      54:29

      $10+ M Exit- Melissa Krivachek, Melissa Krivachek Companies

      Loading...

      54:29

      $11M Exit- Viki Winterton, Expert Insights Publishing

      Loading...

      41:29

      $10.5M Exit- Mitch Russo, Timeslips Corporation

      Loading...

      54:28

      £11.2M Exit- Jonny Cooper, Money Desk

      Loading...

      54:37

      $4.5B Exit- Christopher Lochhead, Mercury Interactive

      Loading...

      54:26

      $100M in Annual Revenue – Reid Tracy, Hay House, Inc.

      Loading...

      54:32

      $20M in Annual Revenue – Anik Singal, Lurn

      Loading...

      54:37

      Billionaire Naveen Jain, Viome

      Loading...

      54:40

      Brian Smith | UGG Australia

      Loading...

      54:29

      Introducing Beyond 8 Figures

      Loading...

      11:37