Dashboard: What We Can Learn from CrowdStrike

This week, Gene Marks explains the global tech outage: what actually happened, how seriously we should take it, and what business owners should do (but probably won’t) before the next outage. Those lessons include: 1) Try to keep some paper handy. 2) Stay calm. The internet is going to go down from time to time. 3) Have a disaster-recovery plan. 4) And if you don’t have a disaster-recovery plan, go to ChatGPT. PLUS: Gene discusses the upheaval in the real estate industry and why the CEO of an HR platform, Lattice, wound up on a subreddit called LinkedIn Lunatics.

Om Podcasten

The 21 Hats Podcast presents an authentic weekly conversation with small business owners who are remarkably willing to share what’s working for them and what isn’t. Unlike many business podcasts, which tend to talk to highly successful entrepreneurs whose struggles are in the past, the 21 Hats Podcast features a rotating cast of business owners who are still very much in the trenches fighting the good fight. Every week, our regulars gather to talk about the kinds of important issues many owners won’t even discuss behind closed doors: whether their businesses are as profitable as they should be, whether they are willing to give up some control to an investor in order to grow faster, why they had to lay off employees, how they wound up with way too much inventory, why they don’t have a succession plan, and even why they are concerned about their own mental health. Visit 21hats.com to hear all of our podcast episodes, read episode transcripts, and learn more. The show is produced by Jess Thoubboron, founder of Blank Word.