A short interview-style conversation (Capitalism.com, Dec 27, 2018) between Ryan Daniel Moran and another speaker about how companies are built by teams rather than lone entrepreneurs. Major claims: entrepreneurs rely on collaborators, consultants, and creative support; founders should focus on their unique strengths and complement them with others to build both a business and a life they love.
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Anybody who has built a company will never deny, at least in closed doors, if not openly, that it was built by the team. All companies are built by teams. There is no company that is built by the entrepreneur. It's not possible. It's just not possible.
Which pizza is not possible?
Why is the entrepreneur all by yourself? You can't build Nothing. You have 24 hours in the day.
You mean as one person, they didn't build the empire?
Yeah. No, the one person doesn't build an empire even if he's putting out a video every day. Somebody shoots and editing it in the quality that it drives. Results. Right. They have a consultant who's telling them how to rank or get viral or whatever that is. They have all the help. All entrepreneurs are standing on shoulders and giants of education or interest or mastermind groups or they're sitting in groups where they have great talent working for them.
So this is the braingasm that most people don't have the balls to tell you. So we were having our little mastermind downstairs earlier today, and there was one person in the room who's so good at what they do. They have millions of followers and the business side is where they were struggling. And so their question to the group was, you know, I'm trying to learn WordPress and I'm trying to learn tech. And all these things were like, don't do that. Don't go down that road. Because so often when you buy into that lie that it's all built by one person, then you ignore your creativity, you ignore the meaning part of the process, and you go straight for the system. Give me the plan, give me the thing that I can do that I can build. But in reality, what you're saying, correct me if I'm wrong, is that the first stage to building a life and a business, both of which you love, is to be in tune with your uniqueness and complement that with other people's uniqueness.
Yeah.
And that's the magic part of the formula.
Absolutely, absolutely. And that's where successful companies, successful entrepreneurs get to build their companies and their lives alongside it. It's not about how many hours you put in the day, because then it's just a glorified job. What's the point of you quitting your job right now and becoming an entrepreneur, there's no point. If the point is so that you can have freedom, if the point is so you can create something that's beautiful, why not collaborate? Why not bring in team members that actually will support that vision and support that direction and create some things that's beautiful.
