The creative mind behind xSuit, Maximilien Perez innovated a solution to the limitations of classic suits, which are constricting, easily wrinkled, and susceptible to stain and odor. The xSuit is a modern suit that can withstand stains, smells, wrinkles and is entirely constructed from stretch material for unparalleled freedom of movement.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“learning things that you are not taught in school. There are many aspects of things that are not covered in your scholar life that you find out the rough way which are when things get tough, and I don’t mean hard, I mean stress that keeps you up at night and knowing you have to wake up the next morning and do it all over again. That’s the kind of thing that you have to learn to overcome and keep your motivation at a high level to be able to wake up the next morning and do it all over again”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone To Take Action Book by Simon Sinek
- Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World Book by Timothy Ferriss
- Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future Book by Blake Masters and Peter Thiel
- Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t Book by Simon Sinek
- Principles: Life and Work Book by Ray Dalio
Favourite Quote:
” Imagination is more important than knowledge” Albert Einstein
Recommended Online Resources:
- YouTube, LLC is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. Three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—created the service in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion; YouTube now operates as one of Google’s subsidiaries.
- TED Talks are influential videos from expert speakers on education, business, science, tech and creativity, with subtitles in 100 languages Ideas free to stream and download
- Udemy is an online learning and teaching marketplace with over 100,000 courses and 24 million students. Learn programming, marketing, data science and more
- edX – Access 2000 free online courses from 140 leading institutions worldwide Gain new skills and earn a certificate of completion
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“be prepared to make a lot of mistakes, to sacrifice a lot, to fail many times and to enjoy it all. It’s a journey, it’s a baby that you need to nurture, that you need to smile at even when all it gives you is negative things. But in the end it will all be worth it and if it’s not it will teach you a huge lesson. Most entrepreneurs need to start over many times before actually succeeding. And it’s that 1% that keeps at it and doesn’t quit that will strive through”…[Listen for More]
More About Maximilien Perez:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110% all the time.” Don Zimmer
Other Quotes From the Chat with Maximilien Perez:
- “the further I get deeper into the business I realise it’s all a numbers game. And as much as you can have a great product, you can have great marketing, your sales can be going well, all that can change very quickly especially if you don’t have your financials, you are not looking at the numbers, you are not looking at your analytics daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and making sure that your numbers make sense, your margins make sense. And depending of course your business there are a lot of other analytics that play a key role and factor in your business growth. So I would say those two things are definitely things that I wish I had known earlier and would have applied earlier ”
- “I would say the number one secret to success would be not giving up. And I would say that this is what makes or breaks many entrepreneurs and many companies is giving up too early”
- “why is more important than the what or the how. So why are you starting this? Why is what you’re doing relevant and important?”
- “As a leader you need to accept coming last and putting your team and everyone else in front of you”
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