I just read part of the news article about some guy shelling out over $600K to eat lunch with Warren Buffet. Proceeds went to charity.
That made me think, which is sometimes hard to do, as I’m usually behind where I want to be, by about 8-16 hours.
Some people are serial entrepreneurs, I’m a serial idea guy.
I have 1-200 good ones every day and don’t have a big enough staff to put them all in motion.
If I ever figure out how to sell all the ones I can’t use, I’ll be retired, seeing a scene like this every day.
But for now, all I can think is about that lunch. Who would I pay an enormous sum like that to eat lunch with and what 10 questions would I ask them ?
How about you ?
Who would be the one business person you’d want to pay to eat lunch with and what would you ask ?
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there are two guys that fascinate me from a business perspective.
1) Jeff Bezos. I admire his vision, perseverence and his conviction to what he believed in. I would love to sit with him and ask him how he hung on and how it felt to be , some times, the only person who really saw the big picture of what could be done with a model like Amazon.
2)Fred Smith of Fedex for much of the same reasons. Here is a guy who, in my opinion, changed the world. I have long held a bit of an (unhealthy) obsession with the roots of Fedex and how they evolved from a business school project to becoming a world changer.
as someone who is in the midst of trying to translate my own vision to reality, i think that i would benefit greatly from talking with these guys and sharing my vision with them
Thanks Jamie.
I think those are both great choices.
Ted Turner, because it certainly wouldn’t be boring:-)I bet I’d learn something, too. When we were tired of talking business, we could talk Americas Cup.
Now that he doesn’t own the Braves or Jane, what could he talk about ?
Donald Trump. I’d like to learn how he thinks.
Hey Mentor,
I’ve always been fascinated with DTrump. I’d like to sit in with you guys and listen to him along with you.
Let’s ask him:
” Hey Donald, Got time for a lunch with us ? “