222. How Derek Sivers grew CD baby to $22m using a customer-focused and generous approach
00:00 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXsnHyjy6sc&t=0s) - Introducing ... Derek Sivers! 01:39 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXsnHyjy6sc&t=99s) - How Derek built a $22m company by focusing purely on the customer 04:40 (https://www.youtube.com/w
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Show Notes
00:00 - Introducing ... Derek Sivers!
01:39 - How Derek built a $22m company by focusing purely on the customer
04:40 - The problem with external funding
13:52 - How to approach the world with a positive bias
16:49 - The story of the cab driver and the mob
29:12 - Derek Siver's approach to content creation
32:22 - How Derek Sivers edits
33:44 - How Derek Sivers sees the AI changes
37:46 - How to live
40:28 - The attitude Derek Sivers brought to CD Baby
43:03 - The struggle before launching CD Baby
44:15 - Why I do my own editing now
44:34 - Why you must pursue pain
44:45 - The difference between deep happy and shallow happy
48:38 - Derek's advice to a person starting off in entrepreneurship
49:00 - The Tarzan analogy
50:24 - The key thing about internal vs external focus
56:28 - Derek Sivers on SEO
57:33 - Derek Sivers' approach to writing anything