This episode features a guest who has achieved massive success as an entrepreneur and venture capitalist. Prior to that experience, Randall Crowder started his career in the Army, where he became both Airborne and Ranger Qualified, and earned two Bronze stars along the way. After his military success, he went on to co-found Texas Venture Labs, serve as the executive director of Central Texas Angel Network, led over 40 angel investments, and now serves as the COO of Phunware, a publicly traded company.
Randall takes his leadership and strong mindset from the military to achieve massive success in the business world. His actions go beyond motivation and he recalls being in Ranger school, thinking to himself, “if he can do it, I can do it”. With this attitude, Randall has built and operated massive businesses.
Randall has seen a lot of success around him in his life, and shares with us the keys to what separates someone from being successful and not.
In this episode of the Define Success podcast, Matt and Randall discuss:
- His experience in the military
- Growing up fast and how he developed personally in the Army
- Developing quality leadership traits
- The concept of Loss of Motivation
- Growing conviction for your own success
- Experiences from working with start-up entrepreneurs
- Why people are more important than product
- Creating a fire and developing the mindset of an entrepreneur
- Why it is so rewarding to be “the first”
- Holding yourself to a high standard, regardless of others’ opinions
Keywords: success, military, define success, entrepreneurship, motivation, conviction, start-up company, venture capitalism, leadership success, personal development, success motivation, success story, motivational speech, inspirational speech, mindset
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