Ep.551 ~ Hitting 100 Million Users and Becoming a $1.5 Billion Digital Verification Company ~ Blake Hall

<p>Our guest today is an Army Ranger who hunted down the Al Qaeda bomb network during his time in Iraq. He also led a platoon for fifteen months in the war and he was awarded the Bronze Star with Valor for leading his men during a firefight against Al Qaeda which saved twenty American lives. </p> <p> </p> <p>But believe it or not, that is not the main reason he is on the podcast today. His name is <a href='https://www.id.me/team'>Blake Hall</a> and he is the Founder and CEO of <a href='https://www.id.me/'>ID.me</a> which is a $1.5 Billion digital identity verification company which has grown to employing over 1000 people and credited with eliminating $210 billion in government identity fraud out of the estimated $400 billion to take place during the pandemic. </p> <p class="p1"> </p> <p class="p1">00:52   Intro</p> <p class="p1">01:56   Micro-High Performance Episodes</p> <p class="p1">02:38   Events and Trips For Entrepreneurs</p> <p class="p1">03:00   Seasoned Business Minds Group</p> <p class="p1">04:04  Guest Introduction</p> <p class="p1">06:33  Blake’s Three Characteristics in Building a Successful Company</p> <p class="p1">07:49  The Learning Values as a Army Ranger</p> <p class="p1">10:50  Solving Problems in Entrepreneurial Perspective</p> <p class="p1">13:23  Life as a Army Ranger</p> <p class="p1">21:34  Application to Harvard Business School</p> <p class="p1">23:31  Overlapping Theme Amongst Successful vs. Failed Companies</p> <p class="p1">26:06  The Start of ID.me</p> <p class="p1">29:57  Influence of Estonia to building a Technology Company</p> <p class="p1">32:07  Company Growth Chapters</p> <p class="p1">36:13  The Future of Digital Identity</p> <p class="p1">48:04  Building Systems in Evaluating and Selecting Team Members</p> <p class="p1">49:33  Self-Pressure and Stress in Growing a Company</p> <p class="p1">52:28  Create Healthy Habits</p> <p class="p1">55:35  The Strategies from Steve Blank’s book “The Four Steps to the Epiphany”</p> <p class="p1">01:05:37  Five Different Sleep Chronotypes -