Build Your Spiky Point of View to Stand Out | Wes Kao (Co-Founder, Maven)
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[0:00] spiky point of view is your unique
[0:02] perspective on the topic of your
[0:05] expertise that other people other
[0:08] experts might disagree with so if you
[0:10] brought 20 marketers into a room and you
[0:14] say your spiky point of view 19 other
[0:16] people might disagree with it and they
[0:18] would have good reason for doing so so
[0:21] the point is not to say something that
[0:22] is a mic drop controversial obviously
[0:26] you know crazy thing you know what you
[0:28] say has to be rooted in EV
[0:30] in rationale in a logical thought
[0:33] process my guest today is Wes cow
[0:36] co-founder of Maven a very popular
[0:38] online course platform Wes and I talked
[0:40] about how to create market and teach an
[0:43] online course to make $2,000 or more per
[0:47] cohort I especially love Wes's
[0:49] Frameworks about how to build a spiky
[0:51] point of view to stand out with real
[0:53] examples and use the state change method
[0:56] to keep people interested consider
[0:58] subscribing for more great interviews
[0:59] every week okay cool all right well
[1:02] welcome West thank you so much for
[1:03] making time for this you know you're the
[1:05] co-founder mayen maybe we can start by
[1:08] you can start by describing your journey
[1:10] from you know just working marketing at
[1:12] a startup to co-found this company just
[1:14] at a high high level yeah yeah well this
[1:17] year marks my 15 year anniversary of
[1:20] working full-time so it's been a pretty
[1:23] long journey but my foray into working
[1:26] with education I was at an adtech
[1:28] startup in SF
[1:30] for you know three four years and at the
[1:33] time I was looking for something new you
[1:35] know I was born and raised in the bay
[1:37] went to school in t