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Noah Kagan Presents

James Altucher - Weirder Than Ever

Noah Kagan Presents

Noah Kagan

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I talk to James Altucher, the bestselling author of Choose Yourself and The Power of No. He started a hedge fund, sold software companies, made millions, lost it all many times, and just an interesting guy.

This is a fun holiday episode!

https://okdork.com/podcast/179

Transcript

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0:00.0

I used to want to make a lot more money so I would invest big I would take risks.

0:05.8

Everybody thinks entrepreneurs take risks and as you guys know you have an idea and maybe it's a risk idea

0:11.9

but then your job 99% of your job after that is to reduce risk and so I didn't know that then whether it was being an entrepreneur or an investor or any activity that my job at some point goes from taking risk to reducing risk.

0:26.4

And so with investing, it's not so much trying to make a lot of money.

0:30.4

There's good investments out there.

0:32.1

The key is reducing risk so you don't lose money

0:38.2

What is up you beautiful bastards? It is your boy mouthguard aka a Can't Lose, no-kegan.

0:43.5

In today's episode I talked to my buddy

0:45.0

James Altature of what has this guy not done in his career?

0:49.3

He's been a best-selling author.

0:50.5

He's sold multiple companies.

0:51.8

He's made millions, lost it many, many times, and is just a really fascinating

0:55.3

guy. This is definitely going to be a fun holiday episode for you sexy people out there. You can also

0:59.6

check out James on the James Outster podcast. In this conversation with him, you're going to learn at least three fun things. Number one, his parenting techniques. A little bit surprising. Number two, how he got millions, lost it, and now got it back. Number three other quirky stories like his wife

1:14.0

walking out in him and then meeting the love of his life before he went to a

1:16.7

monastery. It was a fun episode. Enjoy those three things plus a bunch more

1:20.2

ear nuggets along the way. Before we dive into the show, make sure you go to AppSumo.com.

1:25.0

You're already subscribed, but if you're not,

1:26.0

AppSumo is the number one site online for software deals.

1:28.0

So if you are trying to start or grow your online business,

1:31.0

AbSumo.

1:32.0

Also a special pre-show, shout out to listener Lorraine. grow your online business, Abseuma.com.

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