brand incubator and accelerator. It was an opportunity for him to take “shots on goal” on the many startups he thought had potential. Now he was picking and choosing which brownies he wanted to eat... “It seems like there’s a trend with the consumption of healthy beverages,” he said to his assistant one day. “There’s a new craze every four years. I think the next one will be coconut water.” If you’ve seen the grocery stores lately, he was right... The 100 Mile Group partnered with Zico Coconut Water and Coca-Cola. A few years later, Zico was acquired by Coca-Cola. Throughout all of Jesse’s business adventures, he’s always been sort of a fitness freak. So much so that he hired a Navy SEAL to move
So he invited 50 people from across the country to participate in a networking getaway where they could learn from people in the top of their industry. I was thrilled to get an invite and opportunity to speak. Who knows what’s next from Jesse... but in the meantime, “ Who’s hungry for a brownie ?”
Turney Duff is a former trader at one of the biggest hedge funds in the world, the Galleon Group, where their founder and several Galleon employees were found guilty of insider trading. Turney rose through the ranks and then fell prey to the trappings of Wall Street: money, sex, drugs, alcohol, and
power. Turney chronicles his spectacular rise and fall in his bestselling book, The Buy Side; AWall Street Trader’s Tale of Spectacular Excess.
in with him and his family for 31 days in 2010. He wanted to get in the best shape of his life – both mentally and physically. It resulted in the New York Times bestseller Living With a SEAL... a funny and inspirational book about pushing yourself in all facets of your life.
Jesse Itzler is a serial entrepreneur. If you’d like to hear him speak, he will be a featured guest at the Stansberry 2017 Las Vegas Conference... along with one of the “Sharks” from Shark Tank... the son of a U.S. president... a former Fed insider... and many more. Click here for full details on how to get access from the comfort of your couch right here.
“But I’ll tell you,” Jesse said while standing in front of a rapt audience at his lake house in Connecticut this past July. “Aunt Franny’s brownies were really good.” Jesse was speaking at the Live Life for a Living Retreat he was hosting. He’d gotten an idea to re-invent business retreats... They all seemed the same to him. He wanted to do something better – different.
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