Dan travels to Redwood City to interview Martin in person about The Bonfire Moment, his work as a Principal of Organizational Management at Google, why startups fail, handling feedback and more on this episode.
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Time stamps
4:20 Merch at startupmindsets.com/shop
4:40 Shoutout to Freefuse and Mike Liu
5:00 Shoutout to Arcane for sponsoring a post: try arcane
(5:40) Convo w/Martin Starts
(6:00) How do you reduce yourself to a label
(7:10) What lead into the book
(15:00) Writing a book takes years
(16:10) Collaborating w/Earl to write the book
(18:10) Getting on USA Today bestseller, selling 5k copies
(19:52) Thinking about the people problems on the team
(21:00) Study out of Harvard showing top reasons for failure:
Not assembling complimentary skill sets
(21:43) People issues are what crumble the startup from within
(23:17) Friends and family are the most unstable partnerships, people who are acquaintances and more stable are people who were previously coworkers
Friends and fam are the most expensive, damage is more severe.
(25:00) Winning the short game, get the product out.
(29:00) First time moving to New York
33:40 meeting high profile successful people, underestimating good luck and s
What were the circumstances that gave them the psychological and mental capacities to meet that success (35:00)
(46:10) What do we find meaningful?
(47:50) What kind of pains can I alleviate in the world? Making organizations suck the life out of us less is a battle cry.
(48:30) Handling feedback for the book
(49:39) Dig for feedback
(50:51) Very indirect Filipino communication culture
(51:50) Working jobs that you hate and dealing with bad bosses
(55:00) Dealing with other coworkers and adjusting
(56:34) Assimilating to American life in NYC
(59:05) Filipinos are the Mexicans of Asia?
Raising a family in Philippines vs USA
Being an immigrant hardens you
(1:01:00) show effortlessness while hustling and the US culture behind it.
