Don’t Make Your Passion Your Profession with Jason Feffer: Lead to Succeed 69
Do you agree with Jason Feffer when he says, “Do not make your passion your profession?”
According to Jason, if you take your passion and make it your profession, you will spoil both. In this episode, Jason shares his entrepreneurship journey, nuggets of wisdom that he has learned along the way, and some mistakes that he made in his journey that we can all learn from.
Jason Feffer serves as a board member and trusted advisor to multiple technology-based businesses after growing and exiting three online start-ups. He founded SodaHead in 2006, which operated numerous business lines, including digital advertising and SaaS solutions for media companies.
Jason launched MySpace in 2003 and served as the Vice President of Operations and on the executive committee. Jason oversaw the day-to-day and strategic execution of advertising, revenue reporting, safety, policy enforcement, government relations and managed over 300 FTEs. Jason helped grow the company to 100M users and transitioning it to News Corp after its sale for $580M.
Are you ready to get challenged and motivated by Jason? Listen to this episode.
Key Talking Points of the Episode: (20 second adjustment)
[02:39] Jason’s backstory: How he became an entrepreneur in the tech space
[07:37] Advice to upcoming entrepreneurs and artists
[11:05 How to know where the problem lies as an entrepreneur
[13:18] How to know where your problem lies in a funnel
[17:27] Jason’s failure that has impacted his life
[20:52] Jason’s advice to his 21 years old self
[28:01] A story from Jason
[29:53] Qualities of a great mentor
[30:22] Jason’s favorite quote
Magical Quotes from the Episode:
“Finding your failures, understanding them and moving on, that’s the biggest thing you can do.”
“Failure is not the end. Sometimes it’s the beginning or a spark of something new but get up from your failures and take risks.”
“Don’t take the negative feedback from the venture capitalists and venture investors as just, they’re wrong. You have to go find other sources of money. You take their feedback as nobody wants to give you money.”
“Understanding what the problem is, and where you’re trying to go is fundamental. A lot of people overlook it and try to come up with gadgets, solutions, whiz bang interfaces and all these other ideas on how to solve the problem. They don’t yet understand the problem himself or they have a problem explaining to someone who’s trying to help them or by it.”
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