Hey, I'm Ben!

I build, buy, and invest in businesses.

I've had 2 successful exits. Way more failures.

I try to send one dope email a week called a 1x1x1 filled with learnings and life updates.

I hope I can help a handful of people in their career and life path.

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Ben's 1x1x1 - May 17, 2024 🚀 - How To Hire

This is what matters when it comes to hiring. There are so many things that make up a good hire. I try to keep my hiring methodology simple.I look for these traits in every candidate:

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Ben's 1x1x1 - May 10, 2024 🚀 - Mindset Hurtles 🧠

Shifting my mindset for better performance. Sometimes I feel like a race car driver that's building his car when the race is already 20 laps in. I'm in the wrong mindset in the wrong phase of the race.

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Ben's 1x1x1 - May 3, 2024 🚀 - NO

The hardest thing for me to say - No.I'm a yes man. Being a yes man can be beneficial, mainly for opening doors and making new connections. Also makes me happy to make people happy.

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Ben's 1x1x1 - April 16, 2024 🚀 - This company is going to kill my business

I think a lot more about risk than I have in the past. For the bulk of my professional life, I've been "risk-on" (god that was a fun decade) but now I analyze investments, deals, clients, and most importantly, my time, through a n

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Ben's 1x1x1 - April 19, 2024 🚀 - De-risking

I think a lot more about risk than I have in the past. For the bulk of my professional life, I've been "risk-on" (god that was a fun decade) but now I analyze investments, deals, clients, and most importantly, my time, through a n

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