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00:38:00 · Rohit Malhotra, Marcus Dantus
[00:38:00] S1: Got it. Yeah. And absolutely. Marcus, I quickly want to do the top three. What's your favorite business book? [00:38:09] S2: Oh, there's several ones. Look. If you're talking about creating companies, you know, of course Yeah. Lean Startup by Eric Ries is super important or From Zero to One by Peter Thiel, you know, those are great books. I I also like a lot of... I mean, look, I think Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore is a great book that, you know, allows you to take technology to the laggards and the late adopters. I think that The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell is a great book. I think that things like the Heath Brothers books on marketing, for example, Made to Stick is a great book. There's a lot of great books. [00:39:00] S1: Got it. No, absolutely. We're gonna put that in the show notes. And Marcus, if you could go back into the time when you started Mexico, what was the one thing you would have focused on or done differently? [00:39:14] S2: Well, look, Startup Mexico started as a social, you know, social impact company. The idea was never to charge entrepreneurs, but to charge government into creating governments, local and regional and national governments into creating an ecosystem, startup ecosystem and incubation. And probably if I would do it again, I would add a component to charge entrepreneurs because those, you know, at the end of the day, they get the benefit. So so it could have probably made it more profitable. So that's probably what I would have changed.
00:39:14 · Marcus Dantus, Rohit Malhotra
[00:39:14] S2: Well, look, Startup Mexico started as a social, you know, social impact company. The idea was never to charge entrepreneurs, but to charge government into creating governments, local and regional and national governments into creating an ecosystem, startup ecosystem and incubation. And probably if I would do it again, I would add a component to charge entrepreneurs because those, you know, at the end of the day, they get the benefit. So so it could have probably made it more profitable. So that's probably what I would have changed. [00:39:53] S1: Got it. Got it. Makes sense. And do you have any favorite online tool, like, for example, Claude, Gmail, ChatGPT? [00:40:01] S2: Oh, man. I have a ton now. Of course, you know, you know, video creators, you know, I I I... At the end of the day, I studied cinema and I wanted to So become a movie now I'm very excited about what you can do online. True. And and playing with it, you know, has become a lot of fun. Of course, you know, chatty PT and clot and perplexity and all these tools are amazing if you know how to use them. I mean, look, everybody forgets about these things, but email or WhatsApp or things like that are still incredibly useful. So, so... I use them every day. So so I guess those are favorite tools as well. [00:40:49] S1: Yeah. Got it. Got it. Makes sense. I'll I'll put that in the show notes. And, Marcus, what's the best way people can reach out to you and know more about Startup Mexico?
00:40:49 · Rohit Malhotra, Marcus Dantus, S0
[00:40:49] S1: Yeah. Got it. Got it. Makes sense. I'll I'll put that in the show notes. And, Marcus, what's the best way people can reach out to you and know more about Startup Mexico? [00:40:58] S2: Well, I mean, I'm the only person in the world that's named Marcus Dantus, I'm very easy to find. I'm in every single social network either as Marcus Dantus or M Dantus. And, you know, startupmexico.com, rutaexcel.com, all these websites are available. They even... I even have a website called marcusdantus.com where people can read a little bit more about me. So I'm very easy to reach. [00:41:30] S1: Got it. Well, we we gotta put that in the show notes. Marcus, thank you so much for taking your time speaking to us. I really enjoyed my conversation with you. [00:41:39] S2: Thank you, Rohit, for the invitation, and I hope this inspires some people into becoming entrepreneurs and growing. [00:41:44] S1: Yeah. Thank you. [00:41:49] S0: Thanks for listening to the Lifeselfmastery podcast, where we