Rob and Sherry talk about two articles from Entrepreneur Magazine, one is an interview with Expedia’s CEO about critical traits developed early in his career, and the other deals with things to add to your morning routine.

Expedia CEO Shares the Critical Traits to Develop by Age 30

10 Tweaks To Your Morning Routine That Will Transform Your Entire Day

Support ZenFounder

Episode Transcript

Sherry Walling:

I’m working in I-themes office today from Oklahoma City, which has been really fun. Just like a really cool creative group of people working here at I-themes. And they have, they have like a bunch of Lego sets around the office, including this Ferris wheel that I really am trying to inhibit myself from taking down and playing with. I feel like there should be more Legos in offices around the world.

Rob Walling:

Yeah, that sounds super cool.

Sherry Walling:

Yeah, it’s cool.

Rob Walling:

I’m envious.

Sherry Walling:

You have Legos in your office.

Rob Walling:

This is true. As well as a 3D printer and some other random things. But the I-theme office is pretty cool.

Sherry Walling:

Yeah, it’s in a storefront so it looks sneaky from the outside, it just sort of looks like a random strip-mall storefront. But then you come in and they have kind of this maze of rooms that are a combination of conference rooms and open space offices and then some smaller offices, but you can just tell that the crew that works here is, you know, they’re playful, they’re creative. There’s lots of white board walls all around that have legit work on it, and then lots of fun doodles and pictures of turtles and then they have Legos around. I don’t know, it’s just that cool, the cool startup vibe.

Rob Walling:

Yeah, that’s fun. It’s always good to get to a new place and it kinda gives you a, like working from a new place gives me new perspective. I tend to get a ton done in the first few days when I discover a new coffee shop or when I’m working out of a new office like that, or a new co-working space, just this different stimulation.

Sherry Walling:

Yeah, there’s kind of this infusion of fresh energy.

Rob Walling:

Totally.

Sherry Walling:

Based on the new location.

Rob Walling:

Yeah.

Sherry Walling:

So, we’ve been sending in some article links back and forth, and I thought maybe today we could talk about a couple of the articles that we’ve read lately that have been interesting.

Rob Walling:

Yeah, I think that’s a good plan. I know one of them is an interview and it’s not super meaty, but there are some kind of cool takeaways, and then the other one has a lot more points to it, although some of them may be things we already know, but it’s always good to refresh.

Sherry Walling:

So, the first one is an article from Entrepreneur magazine, and it was an interview with founder of Expedia. And I am not sure how to pronounce his name, do you know?

Rob Walling:

You know, I have no idea. It’s Dara [inaudible 00:03:10] is what it looks like. I don’t,