James Altucher is an American entrepreneur, investor, author and podcaster. He has founded or co-founded more than 20 companies, including Reset Inc. and the financial site StockPickr, and is best known for his 2013 book Choose Yourself and for hosting The James Altucher Show.
Brian Rose has interviewed Altucher on London Real twice, in 2015 and 2019. They talked about his businesses and failures, making and losing money, the selling of StockPickr, and turning vulnerability into freedom.
Both interviews are listed below in order with a short summary.
Choose Yourself (2015). The fuller of his two interviews: making and losing money, selling StockPickr and the thinking behind his best-known book.
Altucher’s central idea is that nobody is coming to pick you. He argues that people should create their own opportunities rather than wait for permission from an employer or gatekeeper.
He says he has founded or co-founded more than 20 companies and that most of them failed. In 2015 he talked candidly about making fortunes and losing them again.
He told Brian Rose that the skills that helped him make money, such as spotting opportunities and building quickly, were different from the habits needed to keep it.
In 2019 he returned to the idea that being honest about setbacks and struggles can free you from other people’s expectations.
James Altucher is an American entrepreneur, investor, author and podcaster. He has founded or co-founded more than 20 companies, including StockPickr, hosts The James Altucher Show and wrote the bestseller Choose Yourself.
In 2015 he talked with Brian Rose about why people relate to him, why he was good at making money but not at keeping it, and how he built and sold StockPickr. In 2019 he returned to talk about turning vulnerability into freedom.
Start with Choose Yourself from 2015, the fuller of the two conversations, covering his businesses, his failures and the ideas behind his book.
Twice: Choose Yourself in 2015 and Choose Yourself: How To Turn Your Vulnerability Into Freedom in 2019.
Choose Yourself, published in 2013, argues that people should stop waiting for employers, publishers or investors to pick them and instead build their own opportunities, while looking after their health, relationships and creativity.
StockPickr was a financial website and social network Altucher founded. He told Brian Rose in 2015 how he launched it and sold it for 10 million dollars within months.
Official site: jamesaltucher.com
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