From the founders of the acclaimed Summit event series and community
comes the story of their unconventional journey to business success and
the hard lessons they learned along the way.
"If you want to succeed as an entrepreneur, Make No Small Plans shows
how the Summit team did it."--Ray Dalio, #1 New York Times
bestselling author of Principles for Dealing with the Changing World
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In 2008, with no event production experience and two college degrees
between the four of them, Elliott Bisnow, Brett Leve, Jeff Rosenthal,
and Jeremy Schwartz became business partners and set out to build a
global events company. With passion and tenacity, they began cold
calling as many inspiring company founders as they could and tried to
convince them to attend their first event. In the beginning, only
nineteen people said yes.
Since then, they have grown Summit into a global community with events
all over the world, hosting luminaries including Jeff Bezos, Richard
Branson, Shonda Rhimes, Brené Brown, Kendrick Lamar, and Al Gore. In
2013, the Summit founders--with help from their behind-the-scenes
co-founder and partner Ryan Begelman--acquired Powder Mountain, the
largest ski resort in the United States, with a dream of building a
mountaintop town of the future.
In Make No Small Plans, they reveal the triumphs, mistakes, and
cornerstone lessons from their journey, which began during the Great
Recession and continues today. Alongside teachings from some of the most
inspiring entrepreneurs of our time, the authors offer takeaways such
as:
- No idea should go unspoken.
- Reputations are earned by the drop and lost by the bucket.
- The road to success is always under construction.
- Become a favor economy millionaire.
Entertaining and empowering, Make No Small Plans shows that anyone can
think big and--with a thirst for knowledge, a talented team, and a
little humility--accomplish the impossible.
