My First Million
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#107 with Chris Bakke - This Serial Entrepreneur is an Idea Machine
56 minutes Posted Sep 4, 2020 at 10:00 am.
Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) hosts the pod today with guest Chris Bakke (@ChrisJBakke) an early employee at Bank Juice, which sold to Zillow. In today’s episode you’ll hear: Chris gives his background and how he ended up in the Bay Area
Shaan gives his philosophy on how to hire new people
Chris explains why he thinks raising capital is a good idea
Chris has an idea he calls "Shopify for SaaS products"
Chris and Shaan kick around how to get subject matter expertise out of gurus to build a service business
Chris has an idea for franchising a service like GeekSquad
Shaan tells a story of how his friend franchised a service model
Shaan and Chris explain how at-home camps/schools can generate a lot of money
Shaan gives a framework of how to give poor people something that rich people have and how that translates to give small businesses something they want that big businesses already have
Chris gives the elevator pitch for his new company that replaces big consultants with software
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Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) hosts the pod today with guest Chris Bakke (@ChrisJBakke) an early employee at Bank Juice, which sold to Zillow. In today’s episode you’ll hear: Chris gives his background and how he ended up in the Bay Area (1:15), Shaan gives his philosophy on how to hire new people (9:35), Chris explains why he thinks raising capital is a good idea (14:15), Chris has an idea he calls "Shopify for SaaS products" (17:05), Chris and Shaan kick around how to get subject matter expertise out of gurus to build a service business (21:50), Chris has an idea for franchising a service like GeekSquad (27:05), Shaan tells a story of how his friend franchised a service model (31:30), Shaan and Chris explain how at-home camps/schools can generate a lot of money (40:05), Shaan gives a framework of how to give poor people something that rich people have and how that translates to give small businesses something they want that big businesses already have (39:45), Chris gives the elevator pitch for his new company that replaces big consultants with software (52:50). This episode is presented by Tempo! Check them out at tempo.fit and use code "TempoHustle" for $100 off. Have you joined our private FB group yet? It's a page where people share each others million dollar ideas or what they're already working on: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ourfirstmillion. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.