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533: Interview With Lucas Acosta Founder & CEO of Foojee

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-This week on Command Control Power, we welcome back special guest Lucas Acosta, founder & CEO of Foojee.

-We recall the last time we had Lucas on, 5 years ago!

-Lucas’ role has changed significantly over the years and he has moved away from the engineering role.

-Foojee recently surpassed 1 million dollars in sales and recurring revenue.

-The centralize their sales and have engineers in various cities.

-Using the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) method, they created an org chart and he discovered he was in too many roles.

-We discuss the book Rocket Fuel, which describes how to implement EOS in your organization.

-The founder, likely with the most experience, is naturally the best person for sales.

-Jerry talks about being an army of one and asks Lucas about advice in growing a business.

-Lucas talks about things he would have done differently, including going multi-city.

-Jerry’s words of wisdom: “Tread Lightly”

-Lean on your strengths that make you unique as a founder and hire out positions that you can’t do as well.

-To be continued…

531: Interview With Mr. Macintosh of MrMacintosh.com

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-This week we welcome the one and only Mr. Macintosh (aka Ryan).

-Ryan has been around Apple products since 2010

-His first Mac was a blue & white G3 tower.

-During a rough hiring time, he found an all Mac based company that hired him.

-His company was then taken over by a Fortune 500 company, which provided him with great opportunities.

-We talk about finding helpful forums with detailed solutions to a problem you are researching.
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-ChatGPT and similar services are still in their infancy and are inaccurate at times.

-Mr. Macintosh started his site to try to give back to the community but discusses the challenges of running a blog site.

-He talks about a few specific articles that he recalls.

-Spelling and grammar has always been a difficulty but he took it as a way to get better.

-“When you have a passion, it makes it easier to spend that extra time on it.”

-There is a level of responsibility and stress when posting things like commands that can be destructive.

-We get into supported operating systems and hardware.

-“Right to repair” is a hot topic that Joe has some thoughts on.

-You can find Ryan on the MacAdmins Slack and on Twitter (or X) as ClassicII.

528: Interview With Shawn Lemon Founder at The Digital Organizer

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Topics:

-This week we welcome Shawn Lemon, founder & CEO of The Digital Organizer.

-Shawn was a Creative at the Apple Store for several years.

-A dinner guest challenges Shawn to start his new career.

-After a great start, he found himself in break/fix land for a while.

-Shawn talks about the days of hard drive upgrades and rolling that into digital organization.

-He stopped break/fix cold one day.

-Migrating to Google Workspace and organizing data is the main focus of his current business model.

-He talks about creating partnerships with other businesses.

-Shawn has one full time employee and leverages contractors.

-After giving up MSP work, he’s working on creating a recurring model for digital organization projects.

-Joe talks about keeping someone at hourly until mutually vetting each other.

-Certain people are disorganized for a reason, and that can lead to a level of pushback.

-Mindfulness training is another aspect of the job.

-Shawn created a digital organization guide for Command Control Power listeners, available here.