#7 - How to Stand Out In Your Career with Benjamin Birnbaum

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This week on Guyset: Ben Birnbaum (co-founder of two businesses Terawatt and Keyframe) talks about the importance of having a differentiated perspective in order to stand out in networking and in your job, his first position, not knowing what you want to do out of college, and his advice for getting started. He mentions that it took him seven months of bad business plans with his cofounders before they found success.

Even if you aren’t interested in what he does particularly, which I’ll admit is way out of my league, stay for his career advice, it’s really solid. We talk about when to know it’s time to leave a job, the importance of writing things down, goal setting, and so much more. His advice is tangible and accessible to anyone at any level.

Timestamps:

3:44 Interview starts

4:29 Ben talks about his first job experience

8:03 We talk networking tips

10:17 Ben talks about how he started his 2 companies

16:59 We talk about balancing life and work

19:26 We talk productivity hacks

21:46 We talk about finding your passion

26:13 We talk about not knowing what you want to do

29:52 We talk the importance of writing things down

30:27 We talk about how to know when its time to leave a position/ company

33:15 Ben’s advice for recent college grads

36:00 Ben shares his framework for goal setting

36:27 We talk about being a first mover

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