Dave WordenTriumph Business Solutions · Founder

Weekly Wake Up- Act Like A Shareholder in Your Business

28 Sept 2020 · 1 min

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In this motivational monologue, the speaker challenges the common belief that entrepreneurship equals relentless hustle, grind, and work‑aholism, arguing that such an approach is not scalable because the business collapses when the founder is exhausted. He proposes a shift in identity: founders should think of themselves as shareholders rather than entrepreneurs. By adopting a shareholder mindset, they focus on three core actions—collecting profits, exercising voting rights, and shaping the leadership team—mirroring how public‑stock owners operate. The speaker urges listeners to stop calling themselves entrepreneurs and start behaving like shareholders to build sustainable, scalable businesses.

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The idea of entrepreneurship is just bastardized. I thought entrepreneurship was hustle and grind and workaholism. It's not. You can't scale a business that way. You know, that's the trap now that entrepreneurship equals hustle and grind. It's not scalable. The day you're tired, the day you're done, the business is done. I want you to own a new label starting today. It's a shareholder. Yeah, a shareholder. What does a shareholder do? If you own public stock, for example, you collect the profits, you render opinions or votes, and you determine the leadership team. Those are the three elements you should be doing for the business you started. So starting today, no longer call yourself an entrepreneur, even though I love that term, call yourself a shareholder, because that's how you need to behave.