Today’s featured guest is Connor Gillivan; a 27 year old serial entrepreneur and published author. After founding his first company in his college dorm room buying and selling text books on Amazon.com, he grew it to over $20 million in sales with a team of over 60 people.
Connor co-founded his second company, FreeeUp, after becoming an expert at hiring and managing remote freelancers. FreeeUp now serves as an online hiring platform where business owners can quickly hire reliable, pre-vetted freelancers from around the world.
Connor Gillivan also founded Ecombalance.com a monthly bookkeeping service for Ecommerce Sellers/agencies and OutsourceSchool.com where he teaches his hiring processes.
Episode Summary: Social Entrepreneur, Successful Founder & Only 27 w/ Connor Gillivan
- Social entrepreneurship
- Find a need and create a solution- that is the smooth road to entrepreneurship
- Grueling process of a book- you just need to calendar it.
- Do what needs to be done today- so in the future you can do anything you want.
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Learning From Leaders:
Current Book: Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek
Best Movie Ever: Remember the Titans
Leadership Superpower: Inspiration
Motivational Mantra: It always seems impossible until it’s done. – Nelson Mandela
Best Book Ever: Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
Additional Items Mentioned
Free Up Your Business: 50 Secrets to Bootstrap Million Dollar Companies by Connor Gillivan
Freeeup.com – mention ML Podcast for discount 🙂