Ep.551 ~ Hitting 100 Million Users and Becoming a $1.5 Billion Digital Verification Company ~ Blake Hall

Our guest today is an Army Ranger who hunted down the Al Qaeda bomb network during his time in Iraq. He also led a platoon for fifteen months in the war and he was awarded the Bronze Star with Valor for leading his men during a firefight against Al Qaeda which saved twenty American lives.    But believe it or not, that is not the main reason he is on the podcast today. His name is Blake Hall and he is the Founder and CEO of ID.me which is a $1.5 Billion digital identity verification company which has grown to employing over 1000 people and credited with eliminating $210 billion in government identity fraud out of the estimated $400 billion to take place during the pandemic.    00:52   Intro 01:56   Micro-High Performance Episodes 02:38   Events and Trips For Entrepreneurs 03:00   Seasoned Business Minds Group 04:04  Guest Introduction 06:33  Blake’s Three Characteristics in Building a Successful Company 07:49  The Learning Values as a Army Ranger 10:50  Solving Problems in Entrepreneurial Perspective 13:23  Life as a Army Ranger 21:34  Application to Harvard Business School 23:31  Overlapping Theme Amongst Successful vs. Failed Companies 26:06  The Start of ID.me 29:57  Influence of Estonia to building a Technology Company 32:07  Company Growth Chapters 36:13  The Future of Digital Identity 48:04  Building Systems in Evaluating and Selecting Team Members 49:33  Self-Pressure and Stress in Growing a Company 52:28  Create Healthy Habits 55:35  The Strategies from Steve Blank’s book “The Four Steps to the Epiphany” 01:05:37  Five Different Sleep Chronotypes - same 01:13:51  Reach out and Learn more about ID.me and Blake Hall 01:15:06  Outro   Contact Info: https://www.id.me/ https://twitter.com/blake_hall https://www.linkedin.com/in/hallblake/   Subscribe to the Podcast:  🎧 Website:  https://www.thebusinessmethod.com/blake-hall 🍏 Apple Podcasts:  http://bit.ly/TheBusinessMethod 💻 Google Podcasts:  http://bit.ly/TheBusinessMethodGooglePodcasts 🎙Spotify:  http://bit.ly/SpotifyTheBusinessMethod   Follow Chris Reynolds on Social Media: Instagram: @chrisreynoldslive  Facebook: @chrisreynoldslive  YouTube: @chrisreynoldslive LinkedIn: @chrisreynoldslive