At the beginning of this episode I give a recap of the first founders conference and announced two more events.

If you are not interested, you want to get right to the episode, skip ahead by about seven minutes, but I do think the story is interesting and worth hearing.

I had an absolutely incredible experience a few weeks ago. I flew to New York to have dinner with Daniel Eck, the founder of Spotify.

Daniel is a remarkable person and without a doubt one of the best founders alive. And out of that conversation, not only did I get some great advice but I left with a

ton of inspiration a ton of energy but I also got a very unique book recommendation and

so this episode is on the book that Daniel told me about.

And I don't think I've ever read.

I can't think of another story that I've read like this.

It will blow your mind.

Before we jump into that, I need to tell you about something that is time sensitive.

I am announcing two new founders conferences that are taking place this year, July 29th through

the 31st in Scotts Valley, California, that's about an hour outside of San Francisco, and September 27th,

do the 29th in Austin, Texas. I am doing each event in partnership. So the Scots Valley

California event is in partnership with Rick Burnham and Paul Bueser.

They're the founders of Sadergrove, which is this $500 million holding company, and they're the hosts of the Art of Investing podcast.

That event is going to be limited to around 130 people. The Austin

event is in partnership with Matt Russell, who's an investor, the CEO of Colossus and host of

business breakdowns. That event will be limited to around 150 people.

You can find all the details at Founders Podcast.com for slash events but the reason these events

exist the reason I'm doing it there there's only one reason, and that's to help you build relationships with other founders, investors, and high-value people.

And that's exactly what happened at the last event I did a few months ago. I'm going to give you some details on that but really there's a back story here that I think is very important.

Number one, for years people have been asking me like to build a community to find ways to connect other people listen. They wanted to be connected to

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