21. Elon Musk Acquires Twitter - DOGECOIN +90%, What It Takes To Be A Successful Founder, How To Achieve Your Goals
In this episode, we deep dive into the Elon Musk's Twitter acquisition, is he adding crypto to the platform? What else does he have plans for? We take a look at what are the skills required to be a good founder, Ben reflects on what he thinks + How to look at any challenge and win. How to get around obstacles. Timestamps: (00:00) Agenda of today’s podcast (01:37) Elon Musk buys Twitter (for 44 billion dollars in cash) (02:57) Dogecoin going up (+90%) (04:34) Appreciating Elon Musk’s Entrepreneurial spirit (11:16) Would you (Bergs) ever own a dogecoin? (16:19) WHAT ALL is going down? (17:55) Bergs show Layoff.fyi to elaborate on, well, layoffs! (19:57) The dynamics of start-ups (25:14) What it takes to be a good founder (30:10) Why is Ben a good founder (according to Bergs) (32:30) How does Ben achieve goals? (37:14) How to establish trust in a person? (41:31) How to keep going on in a start-up? (43:40) Bergs’s wife got rejected at a Uni but… (50:16) Accountability of Ben - He Failed every night! (53:53) Accountability of Bergs - He Achieved! (59:22) Ben restructures his accountability goal - meditate, journal, and reading (01:04:55) - Bergs sets his accountability for the next week (01:08:17) Meme of the week (01:09:08) Meal of the week (01:12:34) Gratitude/Kindness of the week (01:16:37) Outro