Richard Branson
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Summary
Every other billionaire wants to be like Richard Branson. I got an email almost a decade ago from a friend and he goes, you want to come spend a week with Richard at his home in Switzerland? Look at my calendar, clear! There s only one way to screw this up, Dan, is talking.
Transcript
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Richard Branson, you guys ever hear of the guy?
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Richard Branson's a billionaire every other billionaire wants to be like.
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I got an email almost a decade ago from a friend, and he goes,
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you want to come spend a week with Richard at his home in Switzerland.
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There's only one way to screw this up, Dan, is talking.
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I didn't say a lot, and I'm a guy that talks a lot, but I knew better.
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The best conversation I had was with Helen, Richard's assistant.
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everything when he says he doesn't have a phone and all that he doesn't need a phone
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helen's got a phone and then every morning i watched them do this they sat down they had
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breakfast for 60 minutes and she would only bring to him the stuff that she didn't know how to handle
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and then he focused on the thing that he loved to do which is talk to other entrepreneurs about
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what they're building and i watch him invest in four companies of the dozen people that were there
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it was wild i came home and i changed my whole life