David Sax - The Soul of An Entrepreneur

David Sax is a writer and reporter who specializes in business and culture. His previous book,The Revenge of Analog, was a #1 Washington Post bestseller, was selected as one of Michiko Kakutani's top ten books of 2016 for the New York Times, and has been translated into six languages. He also won a James Beard award for his first book, Save the Deli. He lives in Toronto.

In this conversation we discuss his newest book, The Soul of An Entrepreneur, a "rich, searching story about the reality of the business spirit. In a field full of gimmicky ideas and empty promises, it fills a much needed gap in the literature: exploring the truth of who we are, what we make, and why we devote our lives to it."

Buy The Soul of An Entrepreneur here

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David's Website -https://saxdavid.com

--- Highlights —

2:42 "I knew that it was often an emotionally wrenching and permanently transformative experience, a way of working and really of living, whose only certainty was uncertainty. Entrepreneurship was wonderful and terrible, exhilarating and terrifying, soul affirming and soul sucking… often in the same day." - David Sax

3:30 Why did we institutionalize the field of Entrepreneurship?

9:00 Does entrepreneurship belong in Silicon Valley?

19:00 Is entrepreneurship all about virtue signaling?

23:00 Entrepreneurship Comes From a Deep Desire For Freedom.

26:30 What's the best way younger generations can receive the baton from older generations from their family business?

32:00 How can we foster more entrepreneurship?

36:20 What’s the best way for you to pivot our current economic systems, such as capitalism, towards a much more sustainable path?

41:50 Who has been the most influential thinker in your life?

43:45 The Value Code of An Entrepreneur.

47:15 What is something that almost nobody knows about entrepreneurship?

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