#90 The Cornell MBA Who Says The Paper On The Wall Did Nothing | Joshua Lindsey

I tore up my Wharton MBA on camera a couple of months ago, so I was curious what Joshua Lindsey would say about his. He was making 50 thousand dollars a week at 25, had already helped put close to 30,000 ATMs across the Western United States, and then went back and paid his own way through an Ivy League executive program at 28. He hung the paper on the wall and told me he still isn't sure it did anything for him beyond letting him tell his friends he'd done something too. We get into how he went zero to 12 million in his first year on his own, what it cost him when his partners went rogue, and why he thinks a first-time entrepreneur is better off buying a business than starting one. If you're weighing a degree against a few years of actually doing the work, start here. Learn what Wharton Business School will never teach you!  Sign up for the ANTI-MBA today: https://bit.ly/46vct60 Click here to order your personalized poster!: https://bit.ly/46J08MS Connect with Joshua Lindsey Website: https://bit.ly/4xw00eL YouTube: https://bit.ly/4qNW9qH Instagram: https://bit.ly/4r6NRe1 Facebook: https://bit.ly/3T19QpU X: https://bit.ly/4grA0Lw LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3V4n4CO Timestamps 00:00 - Introduction: what a kick in the teeth teaches you 01:42 - Furniture stores and a feast-or-famine childhood 02:12 - Selling Scout-O-Rama tickets door to door 03:34 - The fitness sales mentor who taught him to ask questions 04:30 - Why he still loves sitting through a timeshare pitch 07:22 - The promise he made himself at 26 about predatory selling 09:43 - Value systems, ethical shortcuts and top-line pressure 12:16 - The reverse merger he says he only half earned 13:12 - 30,000 ATMs across the Western United States 14:06 - Tearing up a Wharton MBA on camera 14:48 - The Cornell executive program and the paper on the wall 17:41 - Begging his daughter not to go to college 18:16 - Fifty thousand to travel or two hundred thousand in Bitcoin 20:17 - Informational interviewing and the dietitian test 22:55 - The 17-year-old AI CEO and the cop who asked for a job 25:48 - Whether the alumni network is still worth anything 28:11 - Why 75 percent of his developer hires are self-taught 30:45 - Zero to 12 million in the first year 34:10 - Fifty thousand a week at 25 and the partners who went rogue 39:20 - Telling a real friendship from a positioning one 42:20 - The two founders who insisted on giving him equity 48:33 - Buying a business versus starting one from scratch 52:44 - True equity for every employee, four-year vesting, one-year cliff 55:17 - The businesses under 20 million with no budget at all 57:44 - The advice three billionaires gave instead of a business plan 1:02:20 - The blind spot successful men share 1:05:10 - Ten years without an unkind word 1:07:32 - Why he enjoys conflict in conversation Watch the “David Guttman Podcast” every Tuesday at 8 AM EST on YouTube: https://bit.ly/4wpqfCN Connect with David Guttman Website: https://bit.ly/4v6rnKm Instagram: https://bit.ly/4v2ALyr TikTok: https://bit.ly/4gP3hjI Facebook: https://bit.ly/4y2VZze X: https://bit.ly/4v3Xfza LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/4awQRJv SUBSCRIBE TO: https://www.youtube.com/@RealDaveGuttman Download the “David Guttman Podcast” on all your favorite podcast platforms: Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3VE3fzV Apple Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3VLzm0v