What podcasts say about Adir Shiffman
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What Adir Shiffman has said on podcasts
278 statements · 119 positive · 126 negative · 8 mixed · 25 neutral
About half of products use some variation of emotional blackmail to generate sales.
“Half of the products that are sold in the world are just some variation of emotional blackmail.”
Open the episode · Expert360 Heartbreak, CTM is Back, Iran Stalemate gets less Stale and The Athlete Rich ListListen at 8:41
Entertainment workers are likely to be dismissed once they stop attracting audiences or winning.
“if you're in the entertainment industry, the minute you're not performing, getting an audience, etc., winning, making viewers excited, you know, and like fans are just viewers in another guise really, then, um, you're going to be brutally shown the exit.”
Open the episode · Expert360 Heartbreak, CTM is Back, Iran Stalemate gets less Stale and The Athlete Rich ListListen at 13:18
A chair’s primary responsibility is protecting the organization.
“Your number one job is to protect the organization.”
Open the episode · Expert360 Heartbreak, CTM is Back, Iran Stalemate gets less Stale and The Athlete Rich ListListen at 15:16
How companies treat ordinary departing employees matters more than treatment of executives.
“it's more of a big deal how you treat the non-CEO or the non-C-suite, how you treat regular people that leave an organization.”
Open the episode · Expert360 Heartbreak, CTM is Back, Iran Stalemate gets less Stale and The Athlete Rich ListListen at 21:29
Strong brands are necessary for great consumer businesses or high-margin businesses.
“you can't build great businesses in the, in the consumer space without a really strong brand perspective or from a high margin perspective.”
Open the episode · Expert360 Heartbreak, CTM is Back, Iran Stalemate gets less Stale and The Athlete Rich ListListen at 22:50
Loud customers with negative experiences pose the greatest reputational risk.
“The group that has the most potential to drag you down, uh, like loud people that have had negative experiences with the company, obviously.”
Open the episode · Expert360 Heartbreak, CTM is Back, Iran Stalemate gets less Stale and The Athlete Rich ListListen at 23:29
People of student age are currently the main source of societal upheaval.
“if you look at where the societal upheaval is coming from right now, number one, it's coming from people of student age.”
Open the episode · Expert360 Heartbreak, CTM is Back, Iran Stalemate gets less Stale and The Athlete Rich ListListen at 26:14
Student views today will probably become society’s views tomorrow.
“the views that students hold today, they are the views that society is probably going to hold tomorrow.”
Open the episode · Expert360 Heartbreak, CTM is Back, Iran Stalemate gets less Stale and The Athlete Rich ListListen at 26:30
Student politics is where many people begin learning how to become politicians.
“this is where politics starts, okay? And I think like this is where people learn how to be politicians.”
Open the episode · Expert360 Heartbreak, CTM is Back, Iran Stalemate gets less Stale and The Athlete Rich ListListen at 31:35
Mainstream parties’ absence from campuses signals poor future prospects.
“If the, if the Liberal Party and the Labor, even the Labor right, yeah, can't get a foot in here, personally I think it bodes badly.”
Open the episode · Expert360 Heartbreak, CTM is Back, Iran Stalemate gets less Stale and The Athlete Rich ListListen at 31:42
Far-left radicalism creates openings that can help far-right movements take power.
“the far left just creates an opportunity for the far right to say, we'll save you. And then they end up generally taking power historically in democracies”
Open the episode · Expert360 Heartbreak, CTM is Back, Iran Stalemate gets less Stale and The Athlete Rich ListListen at 33:52
Compulsory voting helps keep political outcomes near the center.
“you realize how important compulsory voting is to keep, to keep things in the middle, as close to the middle as you can get.”
Open the episode · Expert360 Heartbreak, CTM is Back, Iran Stalemate gets less Stale and The Athlete Rich ListListen at 35:44
The Jordan–Nike deal created more value than any other brand-athlete deal.
“that is the greatest value by any brand and by any athlete in history.”
Open the episode · Expert360 Heartbreak, CTM is Back, Iran Stalemate gets less Stale and The Athlete Rich ListListen at 38:48
The Jordan–Nike deal was essential to Nike becoming a mainstream brand.
“There would have been no Nike brand without that deal. Is my guess in the mainstream.”
Open the episode · Expert360 Heartbreak, CTM is Back, Iran Stalemate gets less Stale and The Athlete Rich ListListen at 38:56
Social media has increased athletes’ ownership of their personal brands.
“in the social media era, athletes are taking ownership of their personal brands much more than happened previously”
Open the episode · Expert360 Heartbreak, CTM is Back, Iran Stalemate gets less Stale and The Athlete Rich ListListen at 41:54
Athlete equity deals generate substantial wealth for athletes.
“that is how they're generating massive amounts of wealth.”
Open the episode · Expert360 Heartbreak, CTM is Back, Iran Stalemate gets less Stale and The Athlete Rich ListListen at 42:12
Athletes are increasingly significant early-stage investors in technology companies.
“increasingly we're seeing it tech companies where athletes are a significant part of the early stage cap table.”
Open the episode · Expert360 Heartbreak, CTM is Back, Iran Stalemate gets less Stale and The Athlete Rich ListListen at 48:10
An athlete will eventually become a billionaire through a startup exit.
“I suspect there'll be a billionaire that gets minted, an athlete billionaire will get minted from an exit at some point.”
Open the episode · Expert360 Heartbreak, CTM is Back, Iran Stalemate gets less Stale and The Athlete Rich ListListen at 48:17
Athlete appeal in Australia is strongly geographically segmented.
“in Australia appeal is very geographically specific.”
Open the episode · Expert360 Heartbreak, CTM is Back, Iran Stalemate gets less Stale and The Athlete Rich ListListen at 48:47
Athlete-brand marketing is harder to execute successfully in Australia than America.
“getting an athlete, smacking them together with a brand and driving that in Australia, it's just more difficult than doing it in the US.”
Open the episode · Expert360 Heartbreak, CTM is Back, Iran Stalemate gets less Stale and The Athlete Rich ListListen at 49:38
Iran can achieve victory simply by keeping its regime in power.
“the Iranian regime just has to stay alive to win.”
Open the episode · Expert360 Heartbreak, CTM is Back, Iran Stalemate gets less Stale and The Athlete Rich ListListen at 55:01
A prolonged US blockade of Iran will increase suffering among ordinary Iranians.
“the more that the US blockades Iran, the more that regular people will suffer.”
Open the episode · Expert360 Heartbreak, CTM is Back, Iran Stalemate gets less Stale and The Athlete Rich ListListen at 55:04
Iran’s attempted attacks on US warships have worsened its strategic position.
“it's getting worse for the Iranians just by virtue of the fact that they tried to attack US warships.”
Open the episode · Expert360 Heartbreak, CTM is Back, Iran Stalemate gets less Stale and The Athlete Rich ListListen at 55:19
Escalating geopolitical conflict can unintentionally produce a much larger crisis.
“when you play with fire, sometimes, you know, you create an inferno by accident.”
Open the episode · Expert360 Heartbreak, CTM is Back, Iran Stalemate gets less Stale and The Athlete Rich ListListen at 56:48
Purging senior generals can suppress military initiative and endanger battlefield performance.
“that is the lesson of the danger of purging top generals and making an army feel scared to demonstrate initiative on the battlefield.”
Open the episode · Expert360 Heartbreak, CTM is Back, Iran Stalemate gets less Stale and The Athlete Rich ListListen at 58:12
Trump would quickly accept Iran allowing Hormuz transit and freezing its nuclear program.
“I think Trump would do that deal in a second.”
Open the episode · Expert360 Heartbreak, CTM is Back, Iran Stalemate gets less Stale and The Athlete Rich ListListen at 59:36
Founders should sell some shares during unusually favorable financing windows.
“when there's a golden window, which means everyone thinks the only way is up, including you as the founder, sell some stock.”
Open the episode · Expert360 Heartbreak, CTM is Back, Iran Stalemate gets less Stale and The Athlete Rich ListListen at 1:05:42
Investors generally tolerate limited founder share sales during strong market conditions.
“investors are generally tolerant of some founder sell-down when the stock is very hot.”
Open the episode · Expert360 Heartbreak, CTM is Back, Iran Stalemate gets less Stale and The Athlete Rich ListListen at 1:06:45
Expert360’s sale returned roughly 30 cents per dollar invested.
“It's basically raising a dollar to get 30 cents back.”
Open the episode · Expert360 Heartbreak, CTM is Back, Iran Stalemate gets less Stale and The Athlete Rich ListListen at 1:11:41
Founder self-interest ultimately drives persistence during difficult periods.
“I do not want to be involved in a founder that does not have self-interest because ultimately on dark and lonely nights that is what's going to drive.”
Open the episode · Expert360 Heartbreak, CTM is Back, Iran Stalemate gets less Stale and The Athlete Rich ListListen at 1:13:39
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