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7 things MrBeast, Bezos & Thiel do that you don’t

2 Sept 2026 4 published claims 0 attributable people
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like he would go wake him up and from the moment Jimmy woke up they were together till the moment Jimmy signed off to go to sleep and he would do that for 6 months and he's like by the end of 6 months you know exactly how I think cuz you've been with me every everywhere you know you saw every decision I made so essentially you're like a proxy for me like I can now be in two places at once because you know exactly what would Jimmy do in this situation and yeah cloning works great and I remember there was like a room full of CEOs like multi-billion dollar CEOs as he was telling us this who were

“like he would go wake him up and from the moment Jimmy woke up they were together till the moment Jimmy signed off to go to sleep and he would do that for 6 months and he's like by the end of 6 months you know exactly how I think cuz you've been with me every everywhere you know you saw every decision I made so essentially you're like a proxy for me like I can now be in two places at once because you know exactly what would Jimmy do in this situation and yeah cloning works great and I remember there was like a room full of CEOs like multi-billion dollar CEOs as he was telling us this who were”
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02 / recommendation

If you're enjoying this episode on CEO stuff, so delegating, having hard conversations with your team, hiring, then I've got something for you. So, the team at HubSpot, they actually went and put together a bunch of best practices that Sean and I use in our own companies, and they put it together in something that's really easy to read and understand.

“If you're enjoying this episode on CEO stuff, so delegating, having hard conversations with your team, hiring, then I've got something for you. So, the team at HubSpot, they actually went and put together a bunch of best practices that Sean and I use in our own companies, and they put it together in something that's really easy to read and understand.”
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03 / observation

um this week on Twitter where he was like saying like someone was talking about like hard work and he was like I think you should work hard but but there's a there's this a age between like 3 years old and 13year-old where your kids don't dislike you yet and they're willing to spend time with you know past 13 that doesn't happen and they're out of diapers so they're a little bit easier and they start having opinions and then they can think and for a lot of men who are ambitious people what they notice is that their ambition goes away or dials down during in this period because they love being around their kids.

“um this week on Twitter where he was like saying like someone was talking about like hard work and he was like I think you should work hard but but there's a there's this a age between like 3 years old and 13year-old where your kids don't dislike you yet and they're willing to spend time with you know past 13 that doesn't happen and they're out of diapers so they're a little bit easier and they start having opinions and then they can think and for a lot of men who are ambitious people what they notice is that their ambition goes away or dials down during in this period because they love being around their kids.”
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04 / evaluation

we will trim the business divisions unless you can be number one or number two which is an incredible forcing function because it's a sort of Darwinian pressure to survive and the other Darwinian pressure he applied was every year Jack Welch would fire the bottom 10% performers in the company every year and so a a continuous culling of the herd which sounds I mean I'm sure people interpret that different way some people will think he's an for that when I first heard it I was like oh that's that doesn't sound that hardcore but then you go try do it.

“we will trim the business divisions unless you can be number one or number two which is an incredible forcing function because it's a sort of Darwinian pressure to survive and the other Darwinian pressure he applied was every year Jack Welch would fire the bottom 10% performers in the company every year and so a a continuous culling of the herd which sounds I mean I'm sure people interpret that different way some people will think he's an for that when I first heard it I was like oh that's that doesn't sound that hardcore but then you go try do it.”
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