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This week, Jay breaks down the ideal ways to invest £100k into three straightforward categories and reveals the framework that all of the top billionaires and sports stars adhere to. While Rupy explains the 'arrival fallacy', why you should send a letter to yourself at 16, and the concept of 'antifragile'. 

As Amit wraps up the episode, the panel discusses Michael Singer's remarkable career trajectory.

What to look forward to:

03:05 Why you should write a letter to yourself at 16

06:53 Antifragile

10:14 The arrival fallacy

12:25 What motivates billionaires & stars like Warren Buffett & Taylor Swift?

19:15 If you have 50k or 100k to invest - where should you put it?

34:35 Michael Singer's journey

Links from the episode:

Michael A. Singer: Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

Michael A. Singer: The Surrender Experiment: My Journey into Life's Perfection

Robert T. Kiyosaki: Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!

Erik Partaker: The 3 Alarms: A Simple System to Transform Your Health, Wealth, and Relationships Forever

Paul Millerd: The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life

Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder

Daniel Kahneman: Thinking, Fast and Slow

Steady Capital: https://www.steady.capital/

Previous guests include:

Reece Chowdhry, Poppy Jamie, Eileen Burbidge, Nick Telson and Fred Destin

Download Jay's free E-book: 5 Crucial Lessons From Building Startups Worth $500m

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Episode 23: This week, Jay and Rupy discuss their experience of trying out the hugely popular AI chat bot ‘ChatGPT’ and how they feel it will affect the world as we know it. Rupy shares his top 4 books that he will be re-reading in 2023, whilst Jay gives us 4 top tips to help boost team motivation in 2023 and also explains what it means to be a ‘blissful failure’.

What to look forward to:

00:52 ChatGPT

06:35 Books that Rupy is re-reading in 2023

13:38 What is blissful failure?

16:28 How to boost team motivation in 2023

22:44 Jay summarises 4 tips for running a business in 2023

25:02 Amit discusses the importance of asking the right questions

Links:

Scary Smart - Mo Gawdat’s book on the future of artificial intelligence

Untethered Soul - Michael singer’s book on happiness

The Mom Test - Rob Fitzpatrick’s book on how to ask better questions - Rob’s website

Product lead growth - Wes Bush’s book on building a product that sells itself

Inspired - Marty Cagen’s book on how to structure your tech teams

Previous guests include:

Reece Chowdhry, Poppy Jamie, Eileen Burbidge, Nick Telson and Fred Destin

Download Jay's free E-book: 5 Crucial Lessons From Building Startups Worth $500m

Follow Jay: Twitter

Follow Rupy: Twitter

This podcast was produced by Fascinate Productions

Episode 20: This week, Rupy discusses losing his first employee, feature fallacy within apps and how he plans to maximise the value given through the Doctors Kitchen app with the aim of 10x value to customers. Jay describes how he deals with business break ups as well as giving four tips on how to set and achieve your goals for 2023. Amit gives a brilliant breakdown of the podcast and highlights the importance of realistic goal setting and the concept of leverage.

Audio Timecodes

00:00 Intro

00:43 Rupy’s week battling fires

02:18 Business breakups

09:21 It’s an interesting time in business

13:38 How to give 10x value to customers

18:20 Setting goals for 2023

28:42 Jay’s 4 tips for effectively setting goals as a founder

30:47 Realistic goal setting and the concept of leverage with Amit

Links:

Books:

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

Dr Tara Swart: The Source: Open Your Mind, Change Your Life

Web:

Naval Ravikant: Find a position of leverage

Tony Robbins

Youtube:

All-In Podcast with Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis, David Sacks & David 

Friedberg

Dr. Joe Dispenza - How to Find the frequency of Unlimited Abundance

Alex Hormozi

Previous guests include: 

Reece Chowdhry, Poppy Jamie, Eileen Burbidge and Nick Telson

Download Jay's free E-book: 5 Crucial Lessons From Building Startups Worth $500m

Follow Jay: Twitter

Follow Rupy: Twitter

This podcast was produced by Fascinate Productions

Episode 19: Rupy and Jay interview Nick Telson, co-founder of the highly successful DesignMyNight. Nick’s explains his business journey of raising, scaling and exiting the company. Nick also discloses how he adapted to his new life after DesignMyNight and also breaks down his new business venture ‘Trumpet’.

01:02  DesignMyNight

08:41  Exiting Design My Night

17:31  Life after Design My Night

21:29  Finding the magic number

25:52  Inner happiness

30:45  What is Trumpet?

35:24  Friend circles

Links:

Nick sold - DesignMyNight 

Nick's new company - Trumpet

Nick Telson’s - Pitch Deck podcast

Book: Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life

Previous guests include: 

Reece Chowdhry, Poppy Jamie & Eileen Burbidge

Download Jay's free E-book: 5 Crucial Lessons From Building Startups Worth $500m

Follow Jay: Twitter

Follow Rupy: Twitter

This podcast was produced by Fascinate Productions

Episode 18: From an impressive early career in Silicon Valley through Apple, Yahoo and Skype to founding partner at Passion Capital, this weeks’ guest Eileen Burbidge has experienced an incredible journey in tech. In this conversation with Jay and Rupy, Eileen shares her secrets on becoming a successful venture capitalist, whilst staying a decent, humble and kind person. They also have a laugh at a few stories from her past.

03:00 Early days in Silicon Valley

04:46 Thoughts on Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison & Elon Musk

09:29 Starting out investing

15:26 Jay receiving venture funding he didn’t want

17:56 Treating all founders equally

20:49 Managing family and business time

26:20 Fertifa and other new ventures

Links:

Passion Capital’s website: https://www.passioncapital.com/

Fertifa’s website: https://www.fertifa.com

Eileen’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/eileentso

Previous guests include: 

Reece Chowdhry & Poppy Jamie

Download Jay's free E-book: 5 Crucial Lessons From Building Startups Worth $500m

Follow Jay: Twitter

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This podcast was produced by Fascinate Productions

Episode 17: This week, Rupy explains what happened on his Anti-Meta retreat and how a recent interview with a UX designer made him realise he would like to work as an advisor to startups. Jay discusses how and why visualisation techniques work for him and then breaks down the red flags people should have spotted before the FTX collapse.

What to look forward to:

00:49 Rupy’s Anti-Meta retreat

08:24 Rupy advising new startups

10:23 Visualisation techniques & why it works

14:33 Why knowing what we want will help you succeed

18:47 FTX: what happened?

20:33 The 4 red flags with FTX

30:00 Amit analyzes visualisation techniques

Links:

Book: Joe Dispenza - Becoming Supernatural

Book: Dr Tara Swart - The Source

Dr David Hamilton: Why Woo-Woo Works

Humane tech TED talk on humane tech by Tristan Harris

Jay’s recommendation for making your own visualisation movies

Previous guests include: 

Reece Chowdhry & Poppy Jamie

Download Jay's free E-book: 5 Crucial Lessons From Building Startups Worth $500m

Follow Jay: Twitter

Follow Rupy: Twitter

This podcast was produced by Fascinate Productions

Episode 16: Rupy talks about his most recent partnership with NHS canteens, whilst Jay explains the power of seeking out patterns in business and why taking one big risk can help you succeed as an entrepreneur.

00:21 - Rupy’s NHS canteen venture

06:48 - Should Rupy buy a Podcast studio?

09:25 - Patterns in business

16:46 - How to properly take risks in business

24:23 - Work like a LION not like a COW

Previous guests include: 

Reece Chowdhry & Poppy Jamie

Download Jay's free E-book: 5 Crucial Lessons From Building Startups Worth $500m

Follow Jay: Twitter

Follow Rupy: Twitter

This podcast was produced by Fascinate Productions

Episode 15: Rupy seeks Jay’s hiring expertise before taking on his first round of interviews for a new CTPO (Chief Technology and Product Officer) position with Doctor’s Kitchen. Jay breaks down the different phases of a startup company and what Rupy needs to do to attract a key player to the Doctor’s Kitchen family. How will Rupy position himself to attract the right fit for his company?

What to look forward to:

00:30 – Rupy looks for a new addition to the Doctor’s Kitchen team

02:17 – What should Rupy look for in a potential business partner?

03:15 – The different phases of a company

06:39 – Questions to ask potential new hires

12:18 – Interviewing Etiquette

13:22 – Interviewing Red Flags

14:19 – How to successfully haul in a whale during the interviewing process

15:13 – How Rupy can look attractive to potential hirees

16:29 - How to get rich 

17:05 - Jay’s message to viewers to find their niche as an entrepreneur

Previous guests include: 

Reece Chowdhry & Poppy Jamie

Download Jay's free E-book: 5 Crucial Lessons From Building Startups Worth $500m

Follow Jay: Twitter

Follow Rupy: Twitter

This podcast was produced by Fascinate Productions

Episode 14: A recent experience in the gym triggers Rupy to discuss how allowing time for boredom is impacting his life. Jay explains how to approach money management and how he creates space in his busy calendar.

Rupy demonstrates why the right mindset and belief system is so important to succeed and Jay discusses ‘breathing room’.

What to look forward to:

00:38 Scheduling time for boredom

08:50 Getting smart with money

09.47 A mindset that breeds a lifestyle

12:39 Money rules

18:23 Breathing room

25:57 Amit concludes the podcast

Book recommendations:

Product-Led Growth: How to Build a Product That Sells Itself by Wes Bush

Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki

Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Think Rich to Get Rich! by T. Harv Eker

I Will Teach You To Be Rich by Ramit Sethi

Previous guests include:

Reece Chowdhry & Poppy Jamie

Download Jay's free E-book: 5 Crucial Lessons From Building Startups Worth $500m

Follow Jay: Twitter

Follow Rupy: Twitter

This podcast was produced by Fascinate Productions

Episode 13: This weeks’ Happy Millionaire guest Poppy Jamie has had an incredible journey from early TV presenter career to founder of the groundbreaking meditation app Happy Not Perfect, as well as co-founding the successful fashion accessories brand Pop & Suki. In this engaging conversation with Jay and Rupy, Poppy shares her tactics to combine happiness with entrepreneurship. 

What to look forward to:

01:05 – Poppy’s TV presenting career

01:40 – Poppy’s funny moment with Jude Law 

04:39 – App development

12:25 – Dealing with an unpleasant investor

17:02 – Adult mental health

19:46 – Flexible thinking approach

24:18 – Serving mentality

33:19 – Poppy’s exciting new venture!

Check out Poppy's App: Happy Not Perfect

Previous guests include:

Reece Chowdhry

Download Jay's free E-book: 5 Crucial Lessons From Building Startups Worth $500m

Follow Jay: Twitter

Follow Rupy: Twitter

This podcast was produced by Fascinate Productions