Ed Baker - CEO / Founder of AnyQuestion, Entrepreneur & Investor

In this episode of The Greg Bennett Show, Greg has a wonderful conversation with one of the brilliant minds of the 21st century. A key figure in developing growth with some of the world's leading tech companies.

He is the CEO and Founder of AnyQuestion. The purpose of AnyQuestion is to democratize access to insights from the world’s greatest experts to help people fulfill their human potential. With the mission to become the most impactful living library of trusted insights and expertise authored by the world’s greatest experts in every field.

This episode is loaded with quality information on how to build a succesful business. 

 

Father of four. Harvard Grad, MBA at Stanford Business school, Investor, Entrepreneur, and Growth Specialist. Previously Vice President of Growth at Uber and Head of International Growth at Facebook. 

Ed Baker is also an extraordinary athlete, winning his first Ironman after only 6 months of being in the sport of Triathlon.

 

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Timestamps

2:48 - Interview starts

6:22 - Ed and Greg discuss the similarities between sport and starting a business.

7:55 - Ed describes how he came about to be entreprenurial, right back to his first venture (datesite) in the late 90's. Ed built the first website Datesight.com which launched in 1999. In one week every student in Harvard had signed up - Ed's interest was in the math behind the growth. Understanding how to get one user to share with one other user - Growth art and science - how has human behavior changed.

12:56 - How The Greg Bennett Show podcast inspired Ed to start his new venture, AnyQuestion.com

18:50 - Book: The Cold Start Problem - Andrew Chen (audiobook version)

Ed describes how Uber began, and compares the learnings he made at Uber to how he is aplying them in his new company AnyQuestion.com

29:11 - Ed explains his process from taking an idea and turning it into a viable business.

37:19 - Building a team in a start-up, can be similar to building a team in sports.

43:54 - How different is it starting a business in today's software driven world, as opposed to 20 years ago when the internet was around but nowhere near the penetration it now has. The online tools for starting a business have dramatically changed and improved.

45:44 - Raising funds to start a business can be tricky. Ed explains his view and what has worked for him in previous ventures. Now Ed is able to view the investment process from the 'investors' perspective, which enables him to understand what and how to pitch your new business idea.

51:46 - Interview Concludes

 

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Check out Ed Baker at:

AnyQuestion: AnyQuestion.com/EdBaker 
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/uberedbaker/

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/uber.ed.baker/

Web - https://www.edbaker.com/

Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUAl559y7ZY&feature=youtu.be

facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ed.baker.ironman/