Your Best Self: Winning Without Losing (ePub)

Martin Bjergegaard, started his first business on his 18th birthday, and co-founded in 2006 the successful "start up factory" Rainmaking together with 3 friends. Martin has always felt something was wrong with the traditional paradigm claiming that being a successful entrepreneur requires you to sacrifice most other aspects of life. Martin insists that each day should be a fantastic one, and he loves to travel the world with his wife, daughter and friends 8 weeks a year - recharging his batteries, playing sports and having fun. Back home he rarely works more than 45 hours per week. However, somehow, at the age of 35 he and his Rainmaking co-founders have managed to achieve 3 successful exits, have built a portfolio of 8 successful start ups with a total of 50 million dollars in annual revenues, 100 employees, and offices in London, Copenhagen and Berlin. Jordan Milne is an Entrepreneur in Residence at Rainmaking and the Co-Founder and VP of Business Development at Zatista.com, a leading online original art marketplace. Previously Jordan was a contributing editor at a NYC-based financial magazine for which he interviewed heads of multi-billion dollar Pension and Sovereign Wealth Funds. Like many of us he was searching for that elusive paradigm. The combination of purpose, fun, family, friends, challenge, health, travel, giving back, happiness as well as the ability to balance wild ambitions with the equally as important pleasures and contentment of simple things. He is getting closer. This book is part of that process. Together, Jordan Milne and Martin Bjergegaard discovered a new movement unfolding right now. They spoke with thought leaders and role models from around the world who had learned to achieve profound impact and success in their chosen fields while living happy lives and enjoying the ride. Business leaders who have seen the light a little earlier than the rest of us and were generous enough to share their secrets to help others join them. This book is