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018: Delegate or Die: The Self-Employed Trap by Derek Sivers
Optimal Work Daily - Career, Productivity & Entrepreneurship
English - December 28, 2016 08:00 - 5 minutes - 5.47 MB - ★★★★★ - 181 ratingsEntrepreneurship Business Marketing best blog business daily day design ebook entrepreneur entrepreneurship finance Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Derek Sivers shares how important it is to make yourself unnecessary in your own company. Episode 18: Delegate or Die: The Self-Employed Trap by Derek Sivers (Work Life Balance). Originally a professional musician and circus clown, Derek Sivers created CD Baby in 1998. It became the largest seller of independent music online, with $100M in sales for 150,000 musicians. In 2008, Derek sold CD Baby for $22M, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. He is a frequent speaker at the TED Conference, with over 5 million views of his talks. Since 2011 he has published 34 books, including “Anything You Want” which shot to #1 on all of its Amazon categories. The original post is located here: and !