#9 Why listening to early signals and finding your guiding principles is the key to success | David Arnoux

David Arnoux is a growth expert and serial entrepreneur. He
founded his first company, Maya Trading, at the age of twenty in
China, where he focused on the import and export of small
commodities. In the search for more creativity, he started a
fashion brand, Blue Lemon Paris in 2006 and Twodoo, a tool to
organize communication. Since 2015 he is focused on Growth Tribe,
a digital training company that empowers people to rapidly gain
digital skills of the future. At this point, they trained over
10.000 people across 900 companies and designed 995+ experiments
across seven international campuses.

What we talk about :  
[1:38] How David's upbringing shaped his life  
[4:03] How to optimize for a strong career
[6:39 How David started a trading company in China  
[13:07] How he managed to be number one on skinny black tie
 
[16:12] Mistakes and learnings from his previous tech company
 
[21:18] Why Growth tribe didn't have failures so far
[23:48] The function of a failboard
[26:18] David's take on failure  
[27:38] Goals for the future and the drivers behind them
 
[29:47] Greatest struggle as an entrepreneur
[31:30] How to structure your day to get the most out of it
[39:24] Book recommendations
[42:34] Key takeaway  

Contact :  
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidarnoux/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/darnocks/
Website: https://growthtribe.io

Resources mentioned:  
Nassim Taleb – Antifragile  
Daniel Pink – When  
Andy Grove – Only the Paranoid Survive 

Youtube Channel Growth tribe:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj6owuAZrJNsjQzc2ZtILIw
How to Read More:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmJz4kJ9kr0

Supplements mentioned:  
Ashwagandha
L-Theanin  

Book recommendations:  
Prediction Machines - Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans & Avi
Goldfarb
Lean Analytics - Benjamin Yoskovitz, Alistair Croll  
Realms of the Human Unconscious - Stanislav Grof
Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital - Carlota
Perez
The Hard Thing About Hard Things - Ben Horowitz
The Messy Middle - Scott Belsky
The Case Against Education – Bryan Caplan

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