Charles Myslinsky: What It's Like Selling a Company to Wal-Mart for $3.3B (#39)

Charles Myslinsky on how to decide if you should start your own company or jump on someone else's idea, whether the windfall from his Wal-Mart deal changed his life, and his next big challenge with OJO Labs.

Show Notes

In today’s conversation, we talk about with Charles Myslinsky about how to choose the right path to go down, whether the windfall from Wal-Mart changed his life, and what changes so that the timing of a project goes from wrong to right.

Topics Discussed in Today’s Episode:

• The right path to go down when it comes to ventures that could be rocket ships
• Whether the windfall from the Wal-Mart sale was life-changing
• Lessons learned from working with Marc Lore
• His half-baked startup ideas
• How to define product and what Charles’s job title means
• How the CEO of Ojo decided he wanted the company to be product-led
• Where Ojo is going
• The nicest thing anyone has done for Charles in his professional career

Resources:

• Charles Myslinsky
• Ojo
• Jim Huffman website
• Jim's Twitter
• GrowthHit
• The Growth Marketer's Playbook

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