The Stillest Hour

By: Paul Sanders
  • Summary

  • This podcast follows the ordinary stories of Entrepreneurs in the Financial Industry who broke false beliefs, built companies, lost everything, and yet found the motivation to persevere in their stillest hour.
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Episodes
  • Acquiring Financial Educators and Publishers - A Conversation with Ian Rosen
    Jul 17 2023

    Have a Financial Education or Publishing company? Interested in the details of becoming acquired? Get your answers in today's episode. Ian is the CRO of Magnifi a division of Tifin and has acquired a number of smaller educators and publishers over the past couple years.

    00:00 | Who is Ian Rosen?
    05:56 | Why acquire Financial Education Companies?
    08:11 | Is it easier to build a product or an audience?
    09:28 | Why not start from scratch vs acquiring a Fined/Finpub company
    10:39 | Why aquire when you can joint venture or strike an affiliate deal?
    12:47 | How big of a factor are compliance issues when acquiring a company?
    17:30 | Did Ian ever consider acquiring companies related to Fintech?
    19:04 | Psychology behind Ian's ideal partners
    22:20 | Short list on why an acquisition would be attractive to a Finpub
    24:04 | The beauty of financial alchemy "Finpub to Fintech"
    27:32 | How have current acquisitions gone? What was learned? Plans going forward?
    30:44 | Does bad aqcuisition matter less if the backend monetization succeeds?
    34:16 | What types of products are working right now?
    36:15 | Themes on what marketing works better than others
    37:28 | Build a Financial Education company without the Guru phase?
    38:49 | Acquiring companies with established audiences vs faceless companies
    39:58 | What type of Revenue Multiples do you look to pay companies you aquire
    42:30 | Lifetime relationships with founders?
    43:24 | Compensation model for acquired founders?
    45:00 | What marketing machine will future partners have access to?
    46:48 | Amount of control business owners are going to lose
    49:51 | Ideal company size that Ian plans to acquire
    50:43 | What Ian wishes to fix at an early stage
    56:00 | Ian explains "Chateau Fibonacci"
    57:09 | Ian's advice for business owners who are planning to quit
    1:00:13 | Ian's recommended book that he read recently

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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • Conversation with Crypto Analyst - Mark of Bitcoin.live
    May 9 2023

    Today we are speaking with Mark of Bitcoin.live. Check out the annotations for easy scrolling.

    00:00 - 1:44 How did Mark start?
    01:45 - 03:36 What inspired Mark to get here?
    3:37 - 05:07 Did Mark get drawn to Bitcoin because of the fast gains?
    05:08 - 07:25 Secure safe path or try something else?
    07:26 - 09:31 Personality training is the key?
    09:32 - 12:13 Why go into altcoins space if Bitcoin is the way?
    12:14 - 15:22 A way to predict the timing of Bitcoin's adoption?
    15:23 - 19:24 What keeps Mark in Bitcoin during the "bear markets"?
    19:25 - 20:13 The logic about buying.
    20:14 - 23:28 What is fractional reserve banking and how did some of the banks get into trouble?
    23:29 - 25:21 Mark's opinion on bank bailouts?
    25:22 - 25:52 Bitcoin taking over the monetary system?
    25:53 - 29:01 The U.S national debt and the inflation going forward.
    29:02 - 30:48 The future of Bitcoin live.

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    31 mins
  • Conversation with Jeanette Sims Co-founder of Trade Thirsty
    Jan 13 2023

    Today we are speaking with the Co-Founder of Trade Thirsty Jeanette Sims! Get her backstory, what her company does by listening to this episode.

    00:00 - 12:26 = Where did Jeanette start?
    12:27 - 16:49 = How young is the internet?
    16:50 - 19:04 = How does Trade Thirsty operate?
    19:05 - 26:52 = What is the pain point for publishers or educators?
    26:53 - 29:04 = If you're a financial educator or publisher, who would you connect with?
    29:05 - 35:48 = Difference between an A player and a B player
    35:49 - 36:40 = What do clients want?
    36:41 - 41:20 = What is something you wasted a significant amount of time on?
    41:21 - 46:12 = What's the book that Jeanette has been reading lately that the audience that can benefit from?
    46:13 - 47:13 = Who is Jeanette jealous of in YouTube

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    1 hr and 1 min

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