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Summary
Investors and private equity firms are looking for more than just a degree when they invest in an entrepreneur. They're looking for a team, a niche, a unique proposition, and a good team. What are they looking for?
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So I want to talk to you about what investors and private equity firms look for when they invest into an entrepreneur.
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What is it? Is it talent? Is it a degree? Is it brilliance? Is it a team? What are they looking for?
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Let me unpack this message for you, because this message can make you a lot of money.
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Look, I had a call this morning with one of my guys, and he's been with me for a long time.
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Great guy, very good at the business, but him and I were having a conversation together, and he says,
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Pat, you know, I feel like I don't have access to like I used to have before.
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And I said, what do you mean by this? He says, I just feel like I don't have access to the way I did before.
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I said, you have access. If you call me, do I ever not respond? He says, no.
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I said, what makes you think you don't have access?
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He says, I just feel like you're so busy, and I can't get a hold of you.
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I said, have you ever had a problem getting a hold of me? He says, no.
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I said, okay. I said, let me flip it on you as well. He says, what's that?
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I said, I feel like I have to constantly motivate you.
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He says, what do you mean? I said, I feel like for 12 years, I've had to motivate you every day.
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I said, hey, how much longer do I need to motivate you?
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I said, what else do I need to motivate you with?
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I said, look, when it comes down to an investor, I said, think about you have a billion dollars of money,
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and you're trying to put it into an entrepreneur or a business.
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Well, I'd want to invest into an entrepreneur that knows where he's going.
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I want to invest into an entrepreneur that has a niche.
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I want to invest into an entrepreneur that has a unique proposition against his competitors.
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I want to invest into an entrepreneur that has a good team.
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He says, I said, do you want to invest into an entrepreneur that you have to call every single day for him to go to work and be motivated?
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I said, you want to invest into an entrepreneur that's what?
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Because the greatest motivational speakers of all time are self-motivated people.
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There is nothing wrong with you watching this right now and saying, Pat, I watch you because I need the direction.
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But if you need this for 20, 30 years, there's a problem.
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Why would somebody invest into a company that is going to go out there and make money on the money that they're investing into a company if this person needs to be motivated all the time?
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I mean, you have to realize at some point, you've got to come up with a formula to self-motivate yourself.
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People say, Pat, I've got to tell you, man, I sleep in a lot and I'm lazy.
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If you send a message like that, that you want somebody to motivate you, I'm not the right guy for you because I don't work with the people that I need to motivate.
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You're going to drive yourself insane sucking out all the energy if you constantly have to motivate everybody.
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When you hear about the biggest private equity guys in the marketplace, you'll hear them tell a story.
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Hey, give him some direction, encouragement, some advice.
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My half a million dollars now were $2.2 billion.
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But every time we did a conference call with the numbers, the company kept growing.
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And as much as he was growing, he was pissed off that he wasn't growing enough.
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And I was like, we've already made 10 times the money we put in.
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But you just turned our half a million dollars into $628 million.
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Every time we were on the conference call, we were nervous for you because you were so unhappy.
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Can you imagine you're investing to somebody saying, you can do it, Bobby.
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So if you're watching this yourself saying, man, did somebody do something to Pat?
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The only thing I was motivated by was having a nicer physique so I can have more women.
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The number one person's responsibility to motivate PBD in the morning is PBD.
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If it's on anybody else to motivate you and that person dies, you're screwed.
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I got to encourage, you know, my family, my wife.
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Like, by the way, if you're going through a process of having a new kid and you've never
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But in every aspect of your life, can you imagine meeting to call a 60-year-old mother
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This 60-year-old mother has a 40-year-old daughter and I'm calling, you can do it.
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That grandma's probably going to be offended.
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That mother's going to be like, what are you talking about?
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Somebody has to, you watching this here, if you want somebody to say, man, I'm going
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to invest into you, go do whatever you can to come up with a formula to self-motivate
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And by the way, for some of you to say, I don't have a reason to get motivated.
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A guy walked into a restaurant, didn't say hi to him, George Carl, he's motivated to kill
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He never really said good game, but in his mind, he said he did say good game.
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He comes back and crushes him in the next game.
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Guy comes, BJ Armstrong, beats him with the Hornets, and he starts celebrating, jumping
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up and down, and he says in the interview, you know, BJ knows we play together.
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Do something with it to piss you off and get motivated.
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There are millions of reasons to find to be self-motivated.
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And eventually, people around you are going to say, dude, I love working with that guy.
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I want to be around a self-motivated guy because it's hard to find a self-motivated guy or gal.
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Come up with a formula to go be self-motivated today and the rest of the year.
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Nothing wrong if you want to listen to this content to get drops on strategy out of it.
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But eventually, my goal is for you no longer to need motivation.
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Valuetainment is not a motivational speaker channel.
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You know, it's not, hey, I want to go out there.
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This is not our, there's many other channels like that.
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Matter of fact, Valuetainment may be the channel you'll come and watch and get offended a couple times.
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But I don't wake up in the morning to want to please everybody.
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And if it bothers you and some people say, I don't like his style, I totally respect it.
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Go to somebody that tells you how amazing you are and they play the WUSA game with you.
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But if you're here, it's because every once in a while you like an ass kicking.
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What I'm trying to tell you is, how about instead of you needing an ass kicking from me, how about let's go kick some ass together?
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So figure out a way to go out there and be self-motivated and watch magic happen for the rest of your life.
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And by the way, by the way, if you're watching this right now saying, Pat, how do I improve my work ethic?
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I did this video, I think, four or five years ago titled, How to Improve Your Work Ethic.
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If you've never watched it, go at least watch this video on how you can start working harder.
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And to all the people that don't want to work past five o'clock, it ain't for you, the 459 community.
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This is for the people that want to be self-motivated to work their asses off.
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