Daymond John's Greatest Business Advice

we're all born thinking like entrepreneurs families and friends convinced you not to be an entrepreneur true entrepreneurs will just keep big earring it out if you pull up your car outside of the mall you open your trunk and you sell some for a dollar and you sold 50 of them in three minutes you close that trunk you call me yeah because we're gonna sell those things out every single mall city state country we're gonna sell them on Mars if we can sell them Matt quit behind the brand features the people who are making things happen get insights to grow your business from the experts who've done it get behind the brand sponsored by DocuSign the global standard 4d signature get your free trial at DocuSign calm before / behind the brand hi I'm Brian Elliott welcome to another edition of behind the brand today I'm here with entrepreneur Daymond John Daymond welcome to the show thank you thanks Adam II mean I usually ask my guests how did you get this job how'd I get this job yeah you know the the short story is you know years ago around 1989 I came up with this concept FUBU for us by us I was frustrated I didn't think that um designers were making clothes for the inner-city kids no color not a certain color but the guys who loves rap music and they love this culture and you know I um took ten t-shirts and I kept putting them on videos and taking them back off the rapper and putting in other videos and before I know it it was on 40 videos and people thought I was this huge company when I was a waiter at Red Lobster with 10 t-shirts in my basement now you're from the East Coast right I am so what were you doing I mean you're working at a restaurant hustling trying to get it done and so what what motivated you to do FUBU what's it like you are at your wits an or tell us I kind of get started well you know what I think what motivated me initially was the fact that I loved hip-hop and I loved fashion and I couldn't rap and I couldn't dance but I was fortunate to grow up in Hollis Queens where there was a lot of rappers from there salt and pepper LL Cool J Run DMC yeah I started going on tours I needed to find a way to continue going on tours I wasn't getting paid for it I was going and running and getting sandwiches for LL Cool J so what I started doing is I started buy clothes from Manhattan I would go on a tour I would sell the clothes to rappers and other you know kids in the audience and uh-huh the light went off that maybe I can actually make some money doing this yeah define what you think an entrepreneur is I think an entrepreneur is somebody that understands that they're responsible for you know every single failure it stops at them that there's somebody that needs to figure something out and they're not gonna figure out right away but sooner or later gonna unlock every single key to figure out how to be productive I think an entrepreneur is somebody who thinks outside the box and when everybody else says no they say yes so entrepreneurs really is about taking responsibility for your actions and understanding that there's many people that will that will help you in regards to your success but only you will be the one that's responsible for your failures I like that now that you've got resources you got money you got people it's easier now to start something or was it easier back when you had maybe less to lose or more to gain or tell us about the perspective you know that's the interesting question I don't think I've ever been asked that before it's easier now to start what it's easier now to fail because when you get to a level where you have too many options often you don't have enough information and I can throw money at ten things and I often do and only two things that one thing works if I'm lucky and I don't concentrate on it enough but on the flip side when you have enough resources you can wait and look at other opportunities that you traditionally wouldn't take on but you may see somebody may say well I'm doing a million dollars in business well I hopefully get you to two million dollars again so as things change they stay the same it's really that you know as an entrepreneur you never stop learning and I've failed way more than I succeeded but I would say right now it's generally easier because not the opportune time that it is now it's all the things I've lost in over the past I know what I'm good at and I know what I'm I'm horrible at how long do you give a good idea before you kind of cut bait when you know it's a viable thing you maybe you're passionate about it but how long do you give it before you just like this isn't working we gotta give up and move on you know if it's going from an incubation stage it can take 5-10 years because you're you start thinking about year 1 and year 2 and year 3 you still a thinking about it you going alright this hasn't just gone away this needs to happen yeah and then you know you start to learn the business with it and it could take ten years yeah if it's an opportunity where you're investing it can it probably is a three-year deal where you though we've done everything or I'm not interested in learning anymore this is it's it's creating bigger challenges I'm losing more in other places that I have already created so I would say opportunities that come around every day I would put three to five years in it long-term opportunities that you're thinking about I would say 10 years so that works for you you've got resources so some of the people are watching this show you know they're they've got this startup they're just bootstrapping what advice would you give to them about how long to give a worthy project before they give up I mean I think it's something everyone struggles with yeah and that's a big challenge so I would say for them to have milestones and for them to set their goals so if there's somebody that you know they have a day job and they plan on putting in seven hours a week on to this side hustle job idea concept you know but make sure that compounds and over the year how much time will you put into it and and and what stage would you'd like to see what you'd like to see the business grow from a thousand dollars a week to five or ten but make sure it's affordable steps that you and and goals that you feel you can hit and then you'll realize if you're willing to put one year two years or ten years into it some people just want to do it because they want to be an entrepreneur and they want to change the world and they just want to see things change they don't have to make money that's what I was gonna ask you so what are some of those business milestones that you would recommend so obviously revenue is great you know when you've got sales and you got demand and you're moving product that's great well maybe talk about some of those tougher to measure metrics for those people who are still hanging on the top of the measure metrics are basically I'm making $50,000 a year if I put two three hours of work and time into this a week at the end of the year will I make a certain amount of money or at the end of the year well I change somebody's life it all depends on what are you winning for because many entrepreneurs are into things for social reasons as well so you just really have to put a metric on what are you looking for the end of the day you're the customer yeah so what are you going to get out of it yeah so what's in it for you like what are some of the things that moves a needle for you what are what do you care about what are some of your success metrics personally personally so you know I always say people have to put their their goals or themselves in the two to five words whether it's Apple thing different like you just do a google for us buy it so you have to put a personal one so my my most recent one over the last maybe five six years have been I'm on a quest um I went out and I started writing books several years ago to change entrepreneurs lives and make it a little easier for them and I think that I've been blessed I've always come up with acronyms and or names and titles of my businesses that were about helping other people for us by us my book name display of power meaning that you have a certain power inside you the brand within your a brand before anything else and I love fulfilling people's lives so I believe that uh you know my quest right now is to change people's lives have one at the same time and challenge people I can go out and hire a bunch of people and give them big juicy salaries I love hiring people and/or doing deals on Shark Tank with that person has a twinkle in their eye they're not getting this big luxury salary but you know what four to five years they turn around and go I'm making that money now and I help do it myself it wasn't handed to me and that's what I get filming on so that's that's amazing that's great so you're really empowering people but why do you think you get so much joy out of that is that because that's what you wanted originally when you first started your business you wanted someone to mentor you and you didn't have it or get help us like what do you think that is where I come from um I wanted that I wanted her first to empower a culture and I was fortunate that I was fortunate enough that many people helped me then I went on to do business where I felt bad when I was making a lot of money I had a lot of people around me but they were around for the wrong reasons and when business went bad in between that time well FUBU not being as high as it was and then I didn't acquire coogee in my other brands I saw to see how people really were all celebrity friends the Fairweather friends and I decided that point I want to have fun and make money with people I like yeah cuz even if the money doesn't come having fun and and that's really how cool we started initially I just wanted to dress and go on tour and makes up on me and my and my friends that we want to see you know other people in and then all of a sudden the whole world you know jumped on to that that theory that I had yeah so for you is about lifestyle it is first state of mind it is it absolutely is it's not about how many cars so many planes I try to live a very humble life it's about having a good time enjoying your friends enjoying your health and your family first and you know leaving with the legacy you know and that don't just leave money when you leave this planet leave with a legacy who did you help change and don't listen I'm I'm not going to here you know I'm into it for profit as well but that comes second yeah I think you can have both I think when if you prosper you can help other people prosperous and it's kind of like an imagined you know this this glass of water you know you really can't share with anyone else until your cup is full yeah and once it starts rolling over and then you've got extra to share with people you know you absolutely evidence inside out or you think it hundred percent you have to and you know and being celibate if you give you will receive you know the friend of mine Jay Abraham my mentor he tells me that all the time and and I've become that person that I'm very very happy with it so was there ever a time that you held grudges I mean it's you talk about Fairweather friends and you talk about I can't remember who said it but it's like you know if you're not willing to be with me during the most difficult times in my life I'm not interested in having you around when I'm successful you know that mentality yes absolutely have you ever held a grudge Oh for some human I've held many many grudges but you know why I ended up learning that how can I take my time and you know spending thinking about this person I'm taking it off of myself and then I realize it's not me to judge what somebody has gone through the last 30 40 years of their life and why they're bringing it to the table listen if your daddy locked you in the closet for the last you know when you were a kid and told you these things you may be screwed up in your head why am i why am i holding that responsible and then you know I just realized you know life is pretty much like you know like a game of chess if I'm playing chess with you and you make a move why am I getting mad at you I know what you're doing you're making the move to win yeah and when people do things against you they're just trying to win in whatever twisted way or perception they believe winning is so yeah you know so a colleague of yours Mark Cuban is famous for saying business is sport or business is like a game and and he wrote that book basically saying you know you ought to play business like you play games play to win absolutely how do you feel about the phrase it's it's just business it's not personal um I agree you know you can go and give money to charity if this is a charitable cause and let's make it clear what it is you can I have many many friends that I do business with and we know where to draw the line with business and personal I just don't believe that as we are growing up you know watching the 80s and dynasty and all this thing you had to be this vicious businessman the Gordon Gekkos of the world I don't believe you have to do that I'm fortunate enough to be mentored by people like Russell Simmons by people like Cuban who you know they they they're not out to screw you yeah but there is a way to draw the line with business you know um I've fired many friends and said are you coming to barbecue tomorrow yeah I mean it's just we can't work together you know well where do you draw that line you think business is business but in you know as the world becomes as the world barriers to geography go away you know social medias bringing all this all together you know look at Twitter's a great examples a way that brands can now communicate one-to-one with their consumers sure isn't it becoming more personal it is but you know at the end of the day it's still business so if we agree on something you know whether it's your customer or whether it's your friend you see when you have a brand you promise one thing to your customer and you have to keep delivering on that promise they you stop delivering on that promise that customer moves elsewhere because that's why they were supporting you the same thing with friends I'm gonna give you X amount to work for me and the friend says and I'm going to work me over 10 hours a day yeah if you decide to work for me 5 hours a day you're not keeping your promise if I decide to give you less and I promise you I'm not keeping my promise it's not dressed that's it deliverable what is expected if both parties understand this that's it and you know I've had to let go friends in very hard positions but if I didn't let that person go and that division kept failing I would have to let go many other people that lives depend on me yeah the lives depend on this person so it's just it's just reality so you talked about knowing your strengths and your weaknesses have you ever had to fire yourself take yourself out of a position because you weren't as good at it as you thought absolutely did several different levels of that I've had to close down companies or initiatives because I wasn't there enough or I could have made the wrong decision say hey guys where are the money guys old girls we're out of the money and I have to blame myself that's what it is all the things I've initiated has started to grow and I've had to say alright I don't have the time to allocate towards this I'm gonna have to hire somebody to put them in there and that's not firing so that's a good problem actually because that's saying the business is growing and needs more attention yeah so yeah I you know you always have to be very honest to yourself and you're the person who has to fire or hire yourself a lot of times sometimes I've given jobs to others and maybe there's outside venture into the deal and the deal is it's not working the way I would like it to and I have to stop something I'm doing going listen I hired this person it's not doing well just other people that depend on this and I need to jump in there I need to sacrifice and I'm personally doing and I need to jump in there and it's you know it's a six-alarm fire all hands on deck and now you're kind of teaching and empowering groups of people now you're doing business conferences aren't you yeah I do I speak often um I have a new curriculum it's a shark Academy that I go out and I speak to people but it's a it's a 3-day Academy what we do is we we train people on business and if they wanted to then go and have one-stop shopping with their websites and everything else we we have packages for them I was skeptical about doing it for two to three years and I've gotten offers by ten different companies because when I used to go to some of those real estate uh curriculums yeah felt dirty when I left there like I was up sold everything from bow ties the books right the get-rich-quick scheme exactly so um I went through many many uh individuals so I found though the right one and what I do is I sent my staff there and some of my staff who have graduated very prestigious colleges in entrepreneurship and they came back going I paid how much you go to college not gonna went to that so so you know um so it's a curriculum that we shared people and more importantly I get to put my shark tank you know entrepreneurs through there already so when I do a deal on shark tank I do about 15 deals a year I got I got a curriculum for these guys to to kind of get strengthened as we become partners how long does it take you to learn something new I mean it seems like I when I watch the show a big fan by the way um you what I love I really like you because you are very selective about the projects it seems like you know your wheelhouse your expertise and you don't go and venture far out of that right how long does it take you to learn something new and how often are you challenged to do it I don't learn something new often I I try to improve on what I know I know my you know I know my area and I try to improve on that so you know that's a good point about Shark Tank I'm very selective but what I've learned on Shark Tank and in person in personal life is that there's no shortcuts so if you don't know what you either need to acquire somebody that knows it or you need to learning and you know on Shark Tank when I go into other deals I may need a lorry a Robert a mark because they know it and can I instead of being a shark can I be a buzzard can I get a free ride yeah on you know Cubans back right yeah and that that I know I don't have to do the heavy lifting in current business that's I try to partner up and strategic partners are way more important than money I think that is a very subtle point I want to underscore I hope no one missed that what he just said because it was gold if you can find efficiencies instead of being the shark trying to do all yourself you can look for efficiencies partner up with people who do stuff you know better than you do or more efficiently a more cost effective and I think a lot of people overlook that opportunity all right let's say just clothing when I start up and clothing you know FUBU meet onyx Kool G all the brands I own I only do menswear yes right I go out and license ladies boys boot fragrance and everybody would sit down go oh you're a fashion designer no no if I'm doing menswear if I want to do a fragrance there's whole different factories this whole different buyers there's all different buying seasons you have to mix it the gel you have to make molds for the bottles I can't learn every single design and that's still in somewhat in my area business yeah I have to go on license it and I'd rather split a dollar in half with somebody to make way more than go try to learn it myself and lose trying to understand a whole nother industry I want to talk about Shark Tank again and so instructing it seems like sometimes sometimes these people who are pitching you I really really try your patience yes and you get emotional sometimes like I don't want to say maybe emotional wrong word you you become impatient it seems so that's my perception right what is your what's your thought process are you trying to teach them a business lesson about you know doing it the right way and then maybe let's unpack that a little bit and talk about how entrepreneurs could pitch future investors or VCS about their idea I get irritated and maybe a patient we all do for various different reasons so first of all many people don't know that those pictures can be up to two and a half hours and you're only seeing eight minutes of it yeah so you you don't see the lot of the things that are happening there second of all you know only god can judge you I'm not I'm not up there to judge you I'm up there to judge if the business is good for me and you know I feel like you're really a teacher a mentor and you know someone who's trying to actually help these people and it doesn't come off as critical to me but what we are trying to because we're trying to give them the insight and I think that even though Kevin O'Leary is a very evil person to his core yeah I believe the end of the day he's telling the cold hard truth you know sometimes you know he may be a little harsh but sometimes he needs to say that and while we're trying to educate people is this entrepreneurship is amazing entrepreneurship can give you financial freedom but entrepreneurship can also hurt other people and if you're somebody and you have this dream of this hockey-stick business is gonna go to five million in the next day and if you only get 1% of a jillion dollar market you got this a net I want to save you from taking grandma's money I want to save you from going into your 401k and I want to save you for all the family members around you will gonna invest one hundred two hundred thousand your dream because they love you and then you're gonna turn around go I didn't know any better oops I made a mistake that's all yeah so it's about educating people and I'm just doing it because I was this this close to losing everything myself yeah and I guess you know I think that I've been given this opportunity to share this little people I think it's great advice I mean I love it when you just say stay small you don't need to take I remember the the pogo stick guy you know he was cool yeah he's not much County guys he didn't need us he was cool yeah stay small and what happens with this is when you stay small you may turn around and become huge you may be a kid in Harvard and your dorm who wants a couple of friends yes you may turn around a couple years and have a billion of them Yeah right stay small start small you may be a guy with a little syrup and water in a cup you call the coca-cola and you know sooner or later something happens but learn your mistakes small as well yeah you know what mistakes have you made I want to know not from the perspective of you know there's a confessional but more of you know what's the hindsight what did you learn what mistakes are made we don't have enough time to go over them but I'm I'm gonna go over a couple I learned that you know we thought we were cool because FUBU was super fiery hot and we understood a lifestyle so we thought that naturally we can go out and make an album and we did not a singing I'm talking about artists that we worked with because we already dressed all the artists worthy knew all the artists right we are in half the video set so creatively we understood it but guess what we didn't know the business behind it so yeah we sold a half a million units of the album but it cost us five million dollars to make the album because we didn't know any better I learned at that time that you know we there's no shortcuts that's it we didn't hire a written record executive we didn't know our numbers we didn't look at our numbers we were spending money like drunken sailors just and you know we were getting caught up what was the reason we were doing it did we get exposure yes but from the business model we died right so you know I learned that mistake um I learned that unless we have goals set you don't know what you're doing you know I learned that when when he came into the company I would give friends you know here's $100,000 raise here's $200,000 raise I learned that if you don't have a set formula in your company and you're doing 10 million dollars of business and you're uh let's say your salaries are a million if you go up giving everybody money before you know it next year your salary is a two and a half million you're only doing 12 million dollars in business yeah all right come up with a formula get people anywhere from 5% to 10% raise you know that if your salaries are a million dollars you know next year it's a million plus an average of seven and a half percent I learned all these these things are standard Iseman just standardizing and coming up with formulas you know and learning sometimes when to quit yeah you know when to write it off we're not good at this you know what are you afraid of what am I afraid of I'm afraid of I would have to say I'm afraid of doing the wrong thing for people promising them something thinking I can deliver it and letting him down so I try to you know under-promise and over-deliver I'm like I don't I don't I don't I don't cook the books I don't sell you anything this and that but I want to over-deliver and so why is that so important to you I know you're a brand guy yeah and brand is all about keeping your promise and that's what defines you it ultimately defines your brand and some people would argue with me that you know I'm not a brand I'm a human being but you know when you're the brand we're brands yeah but why is that so important to you I don't you want to let people down well because I think they want people invest in you that's a it's a really it's a big responsibility and whether they invest their time or anything else into you their hopes their dreams I just I just that's how I believe so I love when people say you know I want to work with you and I go hey you know this is how it's gonna be and you're gonna make this amount and you know we may make more I don't say oh we're gonna do this we're gonna do that yeah and I'm a straight shooter kind of guy for years we didn't sell whoo when people all thought we did sell because we never walked in to a deal and just said you're gonna do a billion dollars tomorrow and we just told that we would say you know business is here it may go here you know baggy jeans are not in as much but we're gonna turn around and you know we never saw the but we were very happy you know what we did so it sounds like integrity it sounds like relationships and reputation are three big very big deals in your mind in your life yeah I think that is key I mean you're you're gonna take that brand to the grave and I want my daughters to be able to turn around and walk proudly and talk about you know their father and what what I've done and just be proud about it and that's the event it's listen it even if I was just a lonely fisherman which I was I wanted to do prior to my FUBU I just doing that a hard-working guy I think I think it's just about integrity yeah so how do you innovate you know we talk about companies there's a great book right good to great and a lot of people start off with great intentions they have a good idea how do you take that to the next level how do you innovate how do you make it great well first of all again learn the mistakes small take affordable next steps number one number two was surround yourself with a mastermind group you're not gonna know everything take inventory yourself personally it's your liabilities what's your assets you know where do you need that assistance you know once you then go into market proof of concept of sales goal sells you can make up your own opinion you cannot make up your own facts right and until you know your sales you don't know what your customers gonna buy because you don't know if they like it you know at this price you don't know they like this size this color this you know is it easy as it functionable so until you sell you don't know anything and that's it sales cures all make take affordable next steps and keep selling and keep selling it'll keep growing so if you're small you're just getting started what advice would you give to people too how do you find out that information I mean back in the day we did focus groups and those are really expensive nowadays we've got social media and you know small ecosystem of friends but what would you say to that you see sales are not always a cash transaction sales can be likes sales can be abused so the best thing I always say about sales is first of all try to develop in within yourself and don't sell to your friends if you sell some 10 things to 10 friends if nine of them nobody talks about it or they think it's crap let's give it let's say it's a piece of garment if one of them just here is if somebody likes the color they're gonna come out cuz they love you and say man they love this color you know you're gonna get high on that so don't listen to your friends that's your dole isn't their friend yeah put it out there in the world where people do not know you social media consignment to a store something of that nature see if somebody's gonna go in their pocket take their hard-earned money out and buy it because they believe it improves your quality of life for some reason or another yeah and then grow on that you see people always say to me you know what I need to do a million dollars in business to get on Shark Tank I said you know do you think you can get a shark tank you did fifty dollars a business they go absolutely not and I always say if you pull up your car outside of the mall you open your trunk and you sell some for a dollar and you sold 50 of them in three minutes you close that trunk you call me yeah because we're gonna sell those things out every single mall city state country we're gonna sell them on Mars if we could sell them that quick yeah you don't know who's gonna be the next Pet Rock next yeah you know I love that open-mindedness where are you going specifically for innovation like what inspires you are you are you reading magazines are you traveling and is it places and location is it people what where do you find your inspiration I find my inspiration from mainly my kids I find my inspiration from other kids the digital natives of today you know and I find my information from the health market my two objectives are to go after their health and fitness you can't tell by this belly I have but I'm going there right and to go after technology and make technology cool and I find that the new digital natives and the young kids this market they're going to be the consumer in another five years and you have to start now and watch you know watch what's going on with them I'm not getting any younger these days so I have to realize that you know the new entrepreneurs are you know the kids and so I'm all in social media all the time looking for new things it's very way to connect with your fans is it are you fairly easy to reach I mean Twitter is your favorite social I'm very easy to reach there's many platforms and ways to reach me I try to answer every single person that hits me on Twitter i DM them some form of a message I also have my staff that um that answers people you know so I I'm I'm very accessible you're accessible yeah awesome so you mentioned health and fitness you mentioned tech let's focus on on one of those two industries if you were to ever go to work for somebody or step and get off for the CEO role this you know step into the helm which company would you want to step into CEOs um I would I don't think I would ever do that I wouldn't take a position like that now do I now consult CEOs privately yes I do III I love learning you know you know my forwards you know I'm on a quest I love learning so that's why I like to visit every CEO shop come at it with a fresh pair of eyes consult them and leave so let me ask you another way then so what companies do you think are doing it well and in either of those industries what companies are doing well not even just those industries I mean I love Zumba I think that they tapped on is something I think that they they have something and they can actually keep going in their area but also expand I love a company called Mobley I work with who has who has video technology like Instagram with video I love a company that I work with called few science you know Tiger Woods other companies urban outfitter great great retailers has learned to change the game I still love Apple you know I'm still an apple guy you know so a lot of those companies Whole Foods amazing company Amazon who's about to own everything you know they did that there there are some really amazing companies that I say well you know what they did such Sephora it is such great jobs that that you know I'm I'm amazed that yeah so let's go back to you possibly being unemployable yeah what is it in your DNA you think the the entrepreneurs are born are they made good point you know I'm an entrepreneur in residence in a Babson College which is a number one cause for entrepreneurship in the last 18 years and I ended up learning from a book that the professor Lynch lectures real quality just start and the book explains entrepreneurship and says basically the theory is were all born thinking like entrepreneurs you know like when we crawl and we start and we fall you know we're trying to walk we figure it out entrepreneurs always figure out you're born thinking like an entrepreneur that you know what I'm gonna figure this out regardless and I'm gonna keep going now often the challenge is families and friends convince you not to be an entrepreneur because when you say I'm gonna change the world moving the most famous person I'm gonna save the seals they say don't do that you it didn't happen before yeah it's never having you're gonna you're gonna you're gonna fail you can embarrass us say put the limiters on it they put the limiters and they put the blinders on you bar true entrepreneurs will just keep figuring it out it's affordable steps yeah maybe a follow-up to that question is what are some of the obstacles that you are seeing entrepreneurs stumble over you know what's what's getting people stuck a lot of times it's the the corporate mentality or this mentality they see on TV you know these kids these days are you know watching TV and they believe that life is like a video you know a TV video you know in three-and-a-half minutes I woke up broke and now I have the girl the guy the car the mansion and the yacht yeah right so they're thinking things happen too fast without putting in hard work number one number two is the corporate guy who's an entrepreneur who wants to be an entrepreneur is too busy in the corporate world thinking and getting analysis paralysis they're not just starting they're going well I need to create this and this and this and this just go sell I'll be successful well or I can do this when I have and they have all these it will never be a perfect time you can only make time perfect yeah tell us something about you personally that we might not know from watching on TV or through other your your successful businesses um you know a lot of people just think I'm this business guy I am a I'm an avid fisherman I have a snowboarder I like to go to hotels and tell and use code names like Kermit the Frog and Fozzie Bear so when I call down at midnight and they say hi mr. frog and that laughs and hang up the phone I keep calling 10 times I gotta keep calling you oh so you got a good sense of humor I love I love I mean it's all about laughter you know and that's it I mean you know I I'm just I think I'm just a simple guy I'm really a nature guy really yeah born in New York City but you know that's a fishing snowboarding dirt bike riding scheme shooting that type of stuff so we're some of the places that you've been inspired you like nature like what are some of your favorite spots nature why I'm I will need to be around water so whether it's Miami knows LA or is you know New York really I mean a lot of people don't think about New York has 300 miles of water the seventh richest or eighth richest fishing ground in the world you know I like the mountains I like the Catskills Big Bear I'm just an Asian guy all around that's awesome all right we're spending a few minutes with entrepreneur and business mobile game and John David thanks so much for having me thank you this behind the brand episode is brought to you by DocuSign global standard for eSATA turn get your free trial at DocuSign calm horse wash behind brand

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Published: Tue Apr 30 2013