Lessons From Over 100 Business Founded | Jeremy Delk
Millionaire Mindcast
Matt Aitchison Media, Inc
4.4 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Millionaire Mindcast, we have our guest Jeremy Delk who shares his entrepreneurship journey for over 20 years of investing, successful exits, and logistics failure, the framework of a Fouder-type mentality, his learning lessons from founding over 100 business, and how to easily recover from a failed business venture!
Jeremy Delk is a father, husband, serial entrepreneur, investor, speaker, author of the book, “Without A Plan”, and Founder and Managing Director of Delk Enterprises, which originally starting as a real estate development firm, but has expanded into a diversified investment company holdings in biotech & healthcare, consumer brands, technology, building materials, and real estate development. Since 2001, his businesses have earned hundreds of millions in revenue, created 100’s of high paying American jobs, as well as other notable distinctions such as one of the fastest growing private companies ranked as #21 and #4 in health.
He started the day trading at the age of 16, learning and failing with each trade. At 19, he got his first job, making enough money and living a great life. But he quickly found out that corporate America is not what he wanted, thus, decide to quit to not lost his true self. At an early age, he encountered frustration in handling and investing his money as he didn’t have a safety net. He blew up a $2 million in just 4 days, and managed himself to recover from it. But it’s just a process of adapting failures that is vital to his success in business.
Some Questions I Ask:
Where did this entrepreneurship and investing begin for you?
What was it for you that you feel like the exponential growth opportunity, and how do they come about?
When you got that atge of pack-up and go home, what was the process that you went through that give you the confidence and purpose to pursue chasing those dreams?
When you chose to go to the fidelity, what was it in your in rebuilding phase that lead you to Delk Enterprises?
When you decide to get out that corporate world and start rebuilding and bet on yourself?
Talk to us the evolution from being an entrepreneur to investor making a real money.
What do you feel like is your super power as CEO and investor that you feel like a lot of investor sharpen it they’d see a lot of success?
You’ve been a part of 7-8 figures business, what is the differences or similarities that allow you to transition from one stage to the next?
When you’re looking at the landscape today, what do you invest in, and where do you see the biggest opportunity flowing?
What are your thoughts on Peptides starting to become a little more mainstream, and what’s that world look like from yours perspective going forward?
What are some of the things that you’re paying attention to that you’re exited, concern, and hedge on?
In This Episode, You Will Learn:
The framework of a Founder type and corporate mentality.
How Jeremy loss 2million in days.
How Jeremy easily recover from failure.
The skillsets of a good business leader to make a real money.
Quotes:
“Do more, see more, be more.”
“Me just saying yes, that built the toolbelt that I have no idea.”
Connect with Jeremy Delk on:
https://www.instagram.com/jeremysdelk/?hl=en
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremy-delk-82a57a37
Without A Plan Book by Jeremy Delk
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| 0:00.0 | But I surround myself and really smart people. |
| 0:02.1 | I can kind of look at things in a different light sometimes. |
| 0:04.6 | I think that's my superpower of being able to, if it's been done this way for 100 years, |
| 0:08.2 | cool. |
| 0:09.2 | You do that. |
| 0:10.2 | I'm going to zag. |
| 0:10.7 | And I just go as fast as I possibly can, learn as much, break as much stuff. |
| 0:15.1 | And then one out of 10, one out of 20 deals will and could surprise you, right? |
| 0:19.3 | So give it. But if you aren't really willing to learn, |
| 0:21.8 | and if you kind of pitch yourself in like, hey, I'm a junk bond guy or I'm a convertible debt guy, |
| 0:26.7 | or I'm just a complete early straight venture. Or if you put yourself in a box, you are limiting |
| 0:31.2 | so much potential. Well, I'm excited to welcome to the show, Jeremy Delk of Delke Enterprises. |
| 0:45.8 | How we doing, brother? |
| 0:46.9 | Doing good, man. |
| 0:47.5 | How are you? |
| 0:48.5 | I'm looking forward to our conversation today. |
| 0:50.2 | You and I were, you know, in the green room before talking about the show. |
| 0:54.7 | What you've been up to. |
| 0:56.8 | And man, over the 20 years of your, obviously, investment in VC fund and successful exits and sounds like some majestic failures along the way, Some interesting stories that we can dig into today. |
| 1:12.4 | I'm excited to share some time with you. |
| 1:15.0 | That being said, you know, for those that maybe don't know who you are and how you got into the world of entrepreneurship, |
| 1:22.5 | investing. |
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