#307: Elliott Bisnow – Business, Gratitude, Mentoring, & Meditation

<p>Elliot Bisnow is an entrepreneur. He is the co-creator of Summit and Summit At Sea - an international conference that has featured speakers like Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, and Gary Vaynerchuk. Bisnow has invested in almost 50 early-stage startups, including Uber, Coinbase, Warby Parker &amp; Allbirds.</p> <p>He is the co-author of Make No Small Plans: Lessons on Thinking Big, Chasing Dreams, and Building Community</p> <p>I stumbled across Elliott because he is the featured mentor in The Third Door by Alex Banayan.</p> <p>Learn why he got into business, why people don’t change, how to live in gratitude, mentoring, balance, hosting a dinner party, and why he messed up his interview with Eric Schmidt.</p> <p>(0:00) Intro</p> <p>(3:12) Finding Out About Business</p> <p>(13:20) Dropping Out Of School</p> <p>(22:45) Living In Gratitude</p> <p>(27:14) Family Business</p> <p>(31:42) Seeing People As They Are</p> <p>(34:14) Why Don’t People Change?</p> <p>(40:08) Storytelling</p> <p>(44:50) Interviewing Kobe Bryant</p> <p>(49:31) Why Do People Hit Us?</p> <p>(51:16) “I Like People Who Create”</p> <p>(54:51) Forbes 100 For Balance</p> <p>(57:18) Meditation</p> <p>(1:07:40) Nature</p> <p>(1:11:02) The Rat Race</p> <p>(1:19:42) Less Is More</p> <p>(1:26:02) Parenting</p> <p>(1:28:41) Mentoring</p> <p>(1:36:15) Questions</p> <p>(1:40:09) Interviewing Google CEO</p> <p>(1:42:33) Jeff Bezos Cell Phone</p> <p>(1:43:30) Mastered &amp; Still Learning</p> <p>(1:46:05) Hosting A Dinner Party</p> <p>(1:48:20) Challenge</p> <p><em>Make No Small Plans</em> by Elliott Bisnow, Jeremy Schwartz, Jeff Rosenthal, Brett Leve – <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Make-Small-Plans-Achieving-Impossible/dp/1984822640">https://www.amazon.com/Make-Small-Plans-Achieving-Impossible/dp/1984822640</a>&nbsp;</p> <p><em>The Third Door</em> by Alex Banayan – <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Third-Door-Uncover-Successful-Launched/dp/0804136661">https://www.amazon.com/Third-Door-Uncover-Successful-Launched/dp/0804136661</a></p> <p>My Links</p> <p>✉️ Newslet