Nick Hodulik and I met when I worked at GoPro in Silicon Valley while I was leading 7 of their teams to scale as a Talent Lead and GoPro had just acquired his company, General Things (GT). He and GT were the big buzz around the company. 10 years later we sit down to talk about how he did it, his secret ingredients to WE leadership and how he repeats suit today, all with a personal life that matches. Nick shares why he and his company were sought after by GoPro and how he built a 60-person company into a bullet proof unicorn with an unbeatable culture and teams. He shares about how he leads in business and in his personal life, since one without the other will takes its toll on any good leader. ensuring that were the best any of their employees had ever worked for. We get to the core of why culture, teams and leadership is s important and how he built a company with no turnover and highly retained profit driven employees - which is unheard of in the Silicon Valley. There is nothing inauthentic about Nick.Nick is my definition of what a WE Leader acts like and he has the network, following nd lifestyle to show for it. Nick’s kind of leadership and strategies are what has set the bar for the new paradigm of leaders who will overtake their competitors, not just in regards to financial profitability, but also people profitability.The 3 game changing strategies he used to make his company attractive to GoPro as an acquisition and to be the best place to work for his employees where you build strong cultures of highly retained, profit driven employees (where no one wants to leave)How to navigate the most competitive markets (like the Silicon Valley), edge out your competition and live a profitably balanced life on all levels.How he did it differently than the 90% of companies out there who fail in the 1st 3 yearsHis key strategies as a WE Leader to building and scaling highly profitable companies who become acquisition targetsWhat is the “cycle of loyalty” strategy and how can you use it?What does “front loading” mean to creating cultures of thriving employees and customersThe keys to avoiding historical leadership mistakes and become the WE Leader people will followDon't Forget to Download Your https://pendulumglobal.com/weleaderspodcastgift/ (Free Gift Now!)

About the Guest:Nick HodulikNick is a startup and executive coach, consultant, investor, entrepreneur, and polymath. Nick launched his first startup at age 15 and proceeded to work at and found a number of others. Most of them failed. One succeeded: General Things (GT) was a software and design consultancy, serving clients like Nike, NatGeo, Cisco, SETI, TED, and GoPro. GoPro considered GT — and Nick — irresistible, and in 2013, Nick sold GT to GoPro, where he launched and then served as VP of the company's Software and Services division. At some point he realized that he had been running full tilt since age 15 and decided it was time to slow down and figure out what was next. He left GoPro in 2015 to achieve a variety of life goals he had thus far been putting off; to travel the world; to reflect on what was truly important; and to consciously and deliberately choose the path forward. Nick now coaches startup founders and executives on how to do exactly that — create the life they always wanted amidst the magnificent chaos of starting, growing, and running companies. Nick is also a bodybuilder; an encyclopedia of random, non-sports-related facts; a voracious listener, reader, and eater; and a lover of all humor, high and low. He travels about half of the year and splits his home time between New York City, Miami, and the Bay Area along with his husband and business partner Jonathan “JT” Taylor and their dog Madame Wu.https://www.linkedin.com/in/hodulik/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/hodulik/)https://twitter.com/nhod (https://twitter.com/nhod)

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