The Architecture of Scale | David Segal | #192
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From single storefront to $200M enterprise, David Segal reveals the sophisticated frameworks behind intentional scale. This isn't about entrepreneurial motivation—it's about the nuanced art of simultaneously operating and building category-defining businesses.

Learn the counterintuitive principles that separate exceptional operators from average founders, including the hidden challenges of success and the strategic tension between working in versus on your business. Look into the mind of a builder who has mastered both the science of operations and the art of scale. And watch in real-time as he does it again with Firebelly Tea.

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(00:00) Intro

(04:59) What entrepreneurship is

(07:10) How to manage your psychology

(10:40) Yearly planning, daily action

(15:50) Avoiding "ivory-tower syndrome"

(18:30) Segal's childhood and background

(25:15) The history of DAVIDsTEA and Firebelly

(36:40) The evolution of tea and business over the last twenty years

(42:30) On failures

(49:00) Dealing with depression

(52:30) Lessons about money

(56:55) Business and life lessons from Warren Buffett

(1:00:00) On time management

(1:04:50) What's missing in Segal's life

(1:08:39) On success