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WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT
Codie Sanchez Tells Gen Z to Adventure, Spot Opportunity, Ignore Haters
- Sanchez argues that young people should move fast in their careers but take detours and adventures, and she says her own travels and Latin America work fed directly into her business success.
- She says people should keep asking whether this is all life is, citing Jim Simons leaving a secure, respected academic position for a new venture.
- She advises finding hidden opportunity by looking at what others throw away, using Sam Zemurray's ripe bananas and Misfits Market's imperfect produce as examples.
- She recounts critics who doubted nearly every venture she launched and argues that the biggest mistakes come from trusting the wrong 'who' rather than from the how or what.
- She concludes that living an adventurous life produces both resilience and content, since problems are where the profit is.
IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING
5 ideasAdventure and work can be intertwined
Sanchez says you don't have to choose between a fun life and a career, and she pitched her employer on building a Latin America business so she could do both, growing it to about $1 billion in assets under management.
Shared passions open doors
An investor in Santiago who owned the same Jim Rogers book as her gave her her first tens of millions and connected her to key people in Chile's concentrated wealth network.
Ask 'Is this it?' and act on the answer
She points to Jim Simons, who left a tenured MIT position and academic respect because his life felt too planned, as an example of chasing excitement and big problems.
Opportunity hides in what others discard
Sam Zemurray bought overripe bananas and sold them quickly to nearby cities, while Misfits Market sold bruised produce in surprise boxes at a discount; both turned waste into large businesses.
Critics often reflect their own insecurities
Sanchez says people tell you why you can't do something because your success becomes a mirror for their own excuses, and she says no one doing better than her has ever criticized her online.
WORDS WORTH SAVING
5 quotesIf you wanna be cool, you gotta do cool shit.
— Codie Sanchez
Go get some experience. Get some scars and scabs. Bring back some stories. And then the content writes itself.
— Codie Sanchez
Because you become a mirror to a person they don't really like, which is themselves.
— Codie Sanchez
You want excitement, and surprise, and problems big enough to be worthy of conquering them.
— Codie Sanchez
Your biggest mistakes will not be a how or a what, but a who.
— Codie Sanchez
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Codie Sanchez
hostEntrepreneur and investor; host of the BigDeal podcast.
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