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Anything You Want
- 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur
- Narrated by: Derek Sivers, Naina Kader
- Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
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Summary
You started a business. But why?
Entrepreneurs often lose sight of what matters. Are you helping people? Are they happy? Are you happy? Are you profitable? Isn't that enough?
Derek Sivers accidentally started a business by helping musicians sell their music. It became the largest online seller of independent music with over 150,000 musicians and $100M in sales. After ten years, he sold the company for $22 million and gave all the money to charity.
In “Anything You Want” he shares 40 powerful lessons, in two hour listen. Points include:
When you make a company, you make your utopia—your perfect world.
Business is not about money. It’s about making dreams come true for others and for yourself.
Starting with no money is an advantage. You don’t need money to start helping people.
Your business plan is moot. You don’t know what people really want until you launch.
Don’t pursue business just for your own gain. Only answer the calls for help.
The book’s most memorable stories are from his horrible mistakes, like why saving ten minutes cost him $3.3 million dollars, and how he was attacked by Steve Jobs.
“Anything You Want” was first published by Seth Godin in 2011, then by Penguin/Portfolio in 2015. This third edition for 2022 was improved with eight new chapters.
Its surprisingly humanist approach to business, focusing on generosity and happiness more than profits, has helped thousands of entrepreneurs to re-focus on what matters and find their own path to success.
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- Erik2k
- 06-08-24
Good book, distracting performance
Get the book and make your own opinion before reading.
First of all, I get that it's supposed to be playful and all, but the weird chapter readouts distracted me every single time, making me lose the beginning of each chapter. Every single chapter was different, with a different tonality and sometimes sounded like a child trying to read.
Other than that, I liked the book and the message, and it's cool to know the story of CDBaby as this is my distributor of choice. Some points were conflicting to me, as it almost felt egotistical in a shadow of good. Choosing to do something yourself, potentially losing millions is what I'm thinking of, and yeah I get it; you want to be happy. I'm just imagining you could use that to pay your valued employees more, give them bonuses or something and potentially make hundreds of people happier. Not saying money equals happiness, but I assume your customer service was paid as a customer service is, and it's not parallel to wealth.
So, choosing own happiness over your 85 valued employees and their families seems egotistical for me when you could've started another project to learn about this and that. It's a rough one though as the creator implies profit wasn't the goal, and i assume the workers know that, so it's conflicting.
Much respect anyways and I'll keep using CDBaby in the future for my releases.
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