RG 175 – The Entrepreneur Revolution: Creating a Global Empire with Daniel Priestley
Daniel is the best selling author of the book Key Person of Influence and the founder of the
After school Daniel enrolled in uni but realised it wasn’t for him, he wanted to do business rather than learning about it from a professor who hadn’t even started their own business. He left and was taken under the wing of a 37 year old man who was an entrepreneur starting a new venture; Daniel was the third employee. He started when he was 18 and by 21 they’d grown to 60 employees and built a full revenue stream. While he was employed he did everything from stuffing envelopes to writing copy or printing and driving. He wasn’t offered shares in the business and when he asked he was told to go and start his own business. He was 21 and that’s exactly what he did.
In his first business he went from 0 to a million in his first year and by the time he was 25 it was a $25 million company with 20 employees. He moved to the UK in 2006 and set up Triumphant Events which did events marketing focussed on entrepreneurship, he would hire people to speak for approx £10,000 and over time he built a $4mil a year business. When the recession hit everything dried up so he decided to write a book and at the end of 2009 he launched it at a conference. He realised that everyone was excited about what he was writing, even though it was a recession.
Top tips
Most important habit – Sales
Most important tool – Slack
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