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Speaker 4: So what do you think makes an effective CEO in

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Speaker 4: today's landscape?

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Speaker 1: Dude? Well, I've found the thing I've found hardest and

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Speaker 1: most impactful or most accelerating when I do it well,

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Speaker 1: which I don't do as often as I should. Is

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Speaker 1: communication is communication, and especially in our context, as you

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Speaker 1: described right, there's languages, there's cultures, there's time zones. I

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Speaker 1: was working for this one hundred person German company and

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Speaker 1: I'm now part of a three thousand person multinational company.

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Speaker 1: Like I never traveled out of my office before, I

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Speaker 1: never spoke to anybody who who wasn't German before but

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Speaker 1: suddenly now I'm in this. So being able to communicate effectively,

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Speaker 1: motivate effectively, correct effectively thousands of people across multiple countries,

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Speaker 1: multiple cultures, multiple experience frames, is the number one accelerant

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Speaker 1: to performance in that company?

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Speaker 2: Is that the most unique trade that has led to

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Speaker 2: success for you?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 2: Because when you're talking about you have to show somebody

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Speaker 2: who's selling the company that you're the best person. So

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Speaker 2: there's something unique about what you're doing. Is it the

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Speaker 2: communication or is there something that a gift that you

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Speaker 2: have just been given with that is like, I'm that guy.

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Speaker 1: To do this, I would There's two things I don't

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Speaker 1: I say, there's two things I don't know that I'm

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Speaker 1: brilliant at anything. I am extremely resilient, like life has

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Speaker 1: made me, you know, very very resilient. So I'm against

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Speaker 1: my peers and other people, I see, I'm more able

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Speaker 1: most other people. And I think that's how a positive

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Speaker 1: drag on the company.

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Speaker 1: Bad things happen in business, Bad things happen in the company.

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Speaker 1: So when my team or my organization know that today

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Speaker 1: you know it's going to be fine, let's go again,

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Speaker 1: I think I've been able to get us out of

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Speaker 1: the down moments pretty quickly. So I think that's one thing.

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Speaker 1: And the other thing I tried very hard to do

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Speaker 1: is translate the aspiration of the company into something that's

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Speaker 1: meaningful for employees, right because I just don't fundamentally believe

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Speaker 1: that employees come to work for the company that unless

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Speaker 1: case at Fotira, like me explaining to three thousand people

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Speaker 1: have you know, they don't have to gain what I

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Speaker 1: have to gain. So what I've tried hard to do

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Speaker 1: do need to become a Forbulion your company in a

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Speaker 1: motivated and excited to come to work, and I spend

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Speaker 4: So how do you look at other asset classes, whether

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Speaker 4: it's for business or your own personal investment like real

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Speaker 1: I so, personally, I only invest in things I know

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Speaker 1: and understand. I always say that, right, So I know tech,

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Speaker 1: so most of my investments in tech. I know property,

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Speaker 1: most of my investments in property. And then there's like

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Speaker 1: a small handful of things I did because I was curious.

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Speaker 1: So I like the person, I'm invested in a in

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Speaker 1: a champagne brand because I'm just you know, that would

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Speaker 4: So property, like talk about that, what's your philosophy on

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Speaker 4: now you buying houses or commercial real estate?

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Speaker 1: Like? What's your So what I did for a long

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Speaker 1: time was just as we were getting cash, my wife

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Speaker 1: we saw deals opportunistically, we bought places and we rent

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Speaker 1: is one strategy. Now, you know, one of my well

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Speaker 1: my two best friends are developers, so they're always out

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Speaker 1: through doing development. So I'm like cash investor along a

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Speaker 1: they're doing. So I'm just a cash investor. There does

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Speaker 1: the foundation. So we've set up a foundation, which is

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Speaker 2: What I'm thinking is, like everybody talks about generational wealth

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Speaker 2: creating sustainability. But when you talk about financial freedom, I

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Speaker 1: It's not a number, because how do I explain this?

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Speaker 1: This my life, My life now is well beyond the

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Speaker 1: wildest of my wildest dream growing up. So to sit

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Speaker 1: I come from. I'm I'm still competing with myself and

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Speaker 1: the prize in this in the sport I mean, is

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Speaker 1: it happens to be money, like it happens to be

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Speaker 1: can I do a thought bit? Can I build a

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Speaker 1: company to four? But like that would be pretty cool

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Speaker 1: to do that, and with that comes money. When I

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Speaker 1: think about my life after working, I just think about time,

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Speaker 1: like just having the thing I don't have at the moment.

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Speaker 1: I have any time at the moment, So I don't

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Speaker 1: want my dogs for two hours instead of one like that.

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Speaker 1: That's that is the thing I'm ultimately trying to attain,

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Speaker 1: just getting back total time and freedom. I think that's

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Speaker 1: what wealth is. Time and choice. That to me is

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