Dan Martell - December 18, 2023


Richard is the billionaire every other billionaire wants to be like


Episode Stats


Length

42 seconds

Words per minute

218.92656

Word count

155

Sentence count

12


Summary

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Richard Branson is the billionaire every billionaire wants to be like. Richard Branson has 400 companies in the Virgin Group of Businesses. I wanted to understand how he thought about scale and leverage. I got a cold email from my buddy, Dan, saying, "I'm getting together with my buddy. Do you want to join?" And this is what I saw that I didn't expect.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Richard's the billionaire every billionaire wants to be like.
00:00:02.500 Richard Branson has 400 companies in the Virgin Group of Businesses.
00:00:06.500 I wanted to understand how he thought about scale and leverage.
00:00:10.980 I got a cold email from my buddy.
00:00:13.040 Hey, Dan, I'm getting together with Richard Branson in Verbier, Switzerland.
00:00:16.700 Do you want to join?
00:00:17.820 Of course I want to join.
00:00:19.260 And this is what I saw that I didn't expect.
00:00:21.360 Anything that came into his life went through his assistant, Helen.
00:00:25.040 And every morning for breakfast, they would sit there for 60 to 90 minutes.
00:00:28.320 she would review only the things that she didn't know how to deal with and then the rest of the day
00:00:32.500 he came skiing with us. That's how he ran 400 companies. Your inbox is nothing more than a
00:00:37.340 public to-do list of other people's goals on your time and you allow yourself to be addicted to that.