412: Grant Aldrich | Creating a Solution for Affordable College
Travis Makes Friends
English - May 11, 2020 15:40 - 30 minutes - 28.4 MB - ★★★★ - 366 ratingsEntrepreneurship Business Careers business entrepreneur entrepreneurship finance leadership marketing health interview entrepreneurs money Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Grant Aldrich founded http://OnlineDegree.com (OnlineDegree.com) with a purpose-driven mission: make college more accessible and affordable for everyone. After graduating college with an overwhelming amount of debt, he was determined to change how students embark on their college education. Grant has spent his entire career working in startups with nearly 15 years of experience and 2 prior exits to a publicly traded company. He has been a board member and donor to a number of non-profits, an advisor to many publicly traded companies and a guest speaker at seminars and graduate school courses. He graduated with honors from University of California Irvine in Economics.
Episode Highlights:
Grant explains how he was always intellectually curious
Learn the story behind his first startup
Travis and Grant have a conversation about networking and making friends being the same thing.
3 Key Points:
Every person you know has the potential to be a long term business partner.
Make good friends with everyone.
Grant has been proven wrong every time I’ve thought it’s what you know
Resources Mentioned:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/grant-aldrich (https://www.linkedin.com/in/grant-aldrich)
Visit Travis’ website at https://create.acast.com/episodes/3b48e6da-a672-4e83-9897-ddefc4e88bc7/travischappell.com (travischappell.com)
Join the Build Your Network Facebook group https://create.acast.com/episodes/3b48e6da-a672-4e83-9897-ddefc4e88bc7/travischappell.com/group (travischappell.com/group)
http://OnlineDegree.com (OnlineDegree.com)
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