The Knowledge with David Elikwu

David speaks with Kevon Cheung, an author and content creator. Kevon runs a course, Build in Public Mastery, to help entrepreneurs show their work publicly to build up their brand and superfan base. He wrote a book, Find Joy in Chaos, to help entrepreneurs build their online presence so opportunities and connections come to them. 📜 Full transcript: www.theknowledge.io/kevoncheung/ 📹 Watch on You...

David speaks with Liron Shapira, Founder&CEO of  RelationshipHero.com , a relationship coaching service with over 100,000 clients. Liron is a technologist, rationalist, and serial entrepreneur, whose skeptical takes about crypto and other bloated startups on BloatedMVP.com have been read over a million times. If you wanted an opportunity to dig into everything that is at the frontier of techno...

David speaks with Stu Patience, a Nonprofit co-founder, teacher, and blogger. Stu lives and works in Jakarta, Indonesia, where he works for a small-but-mighty literacy non-profit - Saya Suka Membaca, an Indonesian literacy charity that trains teachers to teach reading in Indonesian in an effective and fun way. Stu is a highly underrated yet extremely prolific creator, and it's been incredible...

David speaks with Alex Fefegha, the co-founder and principal director at COMUZI. This episode was two or three years in the making, and it was definitely worth it. Alex Fefegha works at the intersection of design, programming, speculative fiction, and art, expressing societal challenges and exposing the technology systems that touch us. Alongside his work at COMUZI, Lex is an artist currently expl...

David speaks with Paul Millerd, a Creator, Writer, and Consultant. He’s the author of the Pathless Path, an incredible book. There were a lot of gems in this episode. You're gonna love this if you have any aspirations at all of being a creator or following your curiosity, finding your own path.  📜 Full transcript: www.theknowledge.io/paulmillerd/ 📹 Watch on YouTube https://youtu.be/LYtaknOWy...

David speaks with Dawn Dickson-Akpoghene a serial Entrepreneur, founder, and CEO of PopCom an automated retail technology company that creates data and analytics software for intelligent vending. If you are an entrepreneur or aspiring founder that is considering scaling or building or raising money, this is going to be an incredibly notable episode for you. 📜 Full transcript: www.theknowledge.io/...

David speaks with Rob Fitzpatrick, a well-storied entrepreneur, and writer. Author of three books, including The Mom Test and Write Useful Books, both of which are among the most universally recommended books for early founders and non-fiction writers. We talked about his journey getting into YC in 2007, trying to build this business, pivoting mid-interview, and building a business that ultimately...

David speaks with Thomas Frank, a writer and video creator passionate about helping people become more capable and productive. Thomas is the founder of the College Info Geek , a blog to help you learn effectively, spend less time studying, and become more productive (even if you're not in college). He is also a Notion power-user, and creates tutorials and free Notion templates on the side. We...

David speaks with Khe Hy, founder and CEO of RadReads, an online education company that helps professionals lead productive, examined, and joyful lives. Creator of the $10K Work productivity method and teaches the popular cohort-based course Supercharge Your Productivity We talked about philosophy and spirituality behind productivity, not just talking about what we should do and when we should do...

David Elikwu speaks with David Kadavy an Author, Podcaster and President of Kadavy, Inc. Author of Mind Management not Time Management, The Heart to Start and, Design for Hackers. Host of Love Your Work podcast, where he interviewed Seth Godin, Steve Case, & many more creative entrepreneurs. We talked a lot about productivity, we talked about writing, we talked about content creation about how...

David Elikwu speaks with Jenny Blake an Author, Speaker, and Podcaster. Jenny Blake loves helping entrepreneurs and organizations move from friction to flow through smarter systems, powered by Delightfully Tiny Teams. We talked about this idea from her book, pivot about being able to make incremental changes in your career and really move yourself into a direction that aligns with what you really...

David Elikwu speaks with Josh Spector, a newsletter publisher and an audience and business growth strategist. He helps creative entrepreneurs to grow their audience and businesses and he also writes a great newsletter called For The Interested. We talked all about, so many great frameworks for shipping great work and finding the right audience, creating work that you are proud of and being able to...

David Elikwu speaks with Blake Burge, a content creator and director of manufacturing at Neoinsulation. We talked all about the overlaps between creativity and entrepreneurship and the secrets behind his overnight success as a content creator on Twitter. And finally, we discussed a ton of great frameworks for being able to consistently produce great content. 📜 Full transcript: https://www.theknow...

David Elikwu speaks with Dave Kline, a solopreneur, and owner of MGMT Accelerator & Skillscouter. He advises executives on how to build exceptional teams and improve their careers. We talked about some of the big mistakes that both new and experienced leaders make, how to delegate effectively, how to empower teams and a lot of frameworks and mental models for making effective decisions in a re...

David Elikwu speaks with Arielle Jackson, who is the marketing expert in residence at First Round, and also an amateur jewelry maker. Arielle built a well-storied career working in marketing at Google, Square and Cover. Now she’s a force multiplier at First Round, helping startups pop! She’s also teaching a course on Maven called Startup Brand Strategy. 📜 Full transcript: www.theknowledge.io/arie...

David speaks with Ama Amo-Agyei, a wellness entrepreneur and the founder of Plantmade. Plantmade creates powerful, vegan growth products handmade in small batches to make an actual difference in you and the planet! 📜 Full transcript: www.theknowledge.io/ama/ 📹 Watch on Youtube https://youtu.be/VqLgXoAAVMY 🎙 Listen to your favourite podcast player https://plnk.to/theknowledge 👤 Connect with Ama...

David Elikwu speaks with Bob Gower, an author, speaker, and consultant, who cares deeply about creating organizations that are a net positive for the world. Bob Gower assists leaders in aligning their teams on all levels in order to achieve optimal performance. He is the author of two books, Agile Business: A Leader's Guide to Harnessing Complexity and Radical Alignment: How to Have Game-Chang...

David Elikwu speaks with Richie Brave, a Broadcaster at BBC Radio 1xtra and Head of Diversity for a Publishing Company. Richie dug into his background growing up in London, and how he was able to craft his own career, defining success on his terms to build a life that suits him. Finally, Richie shared some of the incredible grassroots work that he does in his local community. 📜 Full transcript: h...

David Elikwu speaks with Christine Carrillo, an Executive Coach for Early Stage CEOs, Founder of The 20-Hour CEO Over the last decade, she built and led three companies that have generated $200M in revenue. She experienced everything from bootstrapping a business to $25M to building a hyper-growth VC-backed company to $28M ARR in under two years. 📹 Watch on Youtube https://youtu.be/AbIr-Mrg-M4 👤...

David speaks with Colin Landforce, the CTO of Unrivaled Brands. They talked about Colin’s early forays into entrepreneurship, building things from high school and college and beyond, and then also this incredible journey of building a publicly traded cannabis company (Unrivaled Brands). And then finally, they also talked about the idea of building a brand around yourself and tenets of being able t...

David Elikwu speaks with David Morris, the Chief Operating Officer at NeoInsulation. David dug deep into his background and the road to becoming a chief operating officer and everything that he learned along the way. They also discussed the idea of finding your path and not over optimising for optionality. Finally, David unpacked his leadership playbook, sharing everything that he's learned ab...

David speaks with Joe Ferraro, a teacher, podcast host and speaking coach. Joe Ferraro is currently in his 22nd year as an educator, teaching English 12, Public Speaking, and Creative Writing. In addition to his work in the classroom, he is the host of One percent better podcast, and founder of DamnGoodConversations.com , a company whose mission is to teach you repeatable ways to have the best con...

David speaks with Buster Benson, CEO of  750words.com , author of "Why Are We Yelling? The Art of Productive Disagreement". Buster's had a well storied career across Silicon valley, having worked at Amazon Twitter, Slack and Patreon. But he's also an entrepreneur. He's built and co-founded several incredible businesses like 43things.com , Healthmonth.com , and currently is the...

David Elikwu speaks with David Belle, a Trader, the founder of Macrodesiac and Director of Growth at TradingView We talked about: The psychology of traders and what makes investors like Warren Buffet so successful. We also talked about emerging trends in crypto and web3, and high leverage skills to build in your career. Show notes: Why most retail traders lose money [6:42] How success leads to des...

David speaks with Urenna Okonkwo, the founder and CEO of luxury fashion fintech platform Cashmere. They talk about everything at the intersection of fashion and fintech, as well as Urenna's experiences fundraising and scaling. At the age of 23, Urenna Okonkwo came up with the idea for an app to help women save for luxury purchases. Now Cashmere is the savings platform for fashion-forward women...