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Experience Earned. Execution Required. The Necessary Entrepreneur brings together people who are actively creating, not constantly consuming. Hosted by entrepreneur and operator Mark Perkins, the show assembles founders, operators, and investors doing the work.
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#219 - The 3 Questions That Can Change How You Think, Lead and Connect | Eric Saperston (opens the original)
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Eric Saperston took an unconventional path into entrepreneurship. After college, he hit the road in a Volkswagen bus, asking successful and influential people if they would sit down with him for a conversation. Those interviews eventually became The Journey , an award-winning documentary that took a decade to complete and featured conversations with people including Jimmy Carter, Henry Winkler and Maya Angelou. After interviewing hundreds of extraordinary people, Eric began identifying the princ
#218 - AI Won't Replace Great Lawyers. But It Will Change How Law Firms Win | Seth Bader (opens the original)
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How do you take a law firm from a one-bedroom apartment to a 150+ employee organization without losing the standards that made it successful in the first place? On this episode of The Necessary Entrepreneur, Mark Perkins sits down with Seth Bader, founder and CEO of Bader Law, one of Georgia's leading personal injury and workers' compensation firms. Seth started the firm in 2008 out of a one-bedroom apartment and grew it into a business serving tens of thousands of clients. Seth shares what he l
#217 - AI Marketing, SEO & AEO: How to Scale a Business in the Age of AI | Gilad Bechar (opens the original)
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How do you scale a business when technology is moving faster than your ability to plan for it? On this episode of The Necessary Entrepreneur , Mark Perkins sits down with Gilad Bechar, Founder & CEO of Moburst , a global digital growth company that has worked with brands including Google, Uber, Samsung, and Reddit. Gilad built Moburst from a highly specialized mobile marketing company into a much broader digital growth business, expanding through technology, AI, and strategic acquisitions. Along
#216 - The Dark Side of Going All In on Your Business | Dr. Thomas J. Powell (opens the original)
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What does it really take to build a successful business and a life that still works when the business gets complicated? On this episode of The Necessary Entrepreneur , Mark Perkins sits down with Dr. Thomas J. Powell, founder of The Founder's Office, to explore the mindset, resilience, risk management, and decision-making that separate successful entrepreneurs from everyone else. Tom has spent decades working with founders and says his experience helping more than 500 founders and deploying more
#215 - The Brutal Truth About AI, Leadership and Scaling a Manufacturing Company | Darragh de Stonndún (opens the original)
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What does it take to build a company that can scale, adapt and keep getting better when the problems never stop? On this episode of The Necessary Entrepreneur , Mark Perkins sits down with Darragh de Stonndún, co-founder and CEO of Automated Industrial Robotics (AIR) , a rapidly growing global industrial automation company with operations across the United States, Ireland and the United Kingdom. Darragh has spent decades building and leading businesses in industrial automation and advanced manuf
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