Ep. 93: Marc Gorlin Shares Transformative Wisdom

The Main Thing Podcast

Welcome to The Main Thing Podcast. Our special guest is a savvy, serial entrepreneur with several start-ups and successful exits to his credit.

Marc Gorlin is the founder and CEO of Roadie, a UPS Company. Roadie is a logistics management and crowdsourced delivery platform that provides businesses with a faster, cheaper, more scalable delivery solution.

Before launching Roadie, Marc co-founded Kabbage Inc., VerticalOne Corporation, and Pretty Good Privacy (Also called “PGP”).

He received the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year® National Award in 2021 and the John Imlay Leadership Award in 2022.

Marc joins us today from Atlanta.

Buckle up! Over the next 9 minutes, you will discover why Marc Gorlin is one of the wisest people I know.

Resources

Marc Gorlin on LinkedIn

The Roadie website

News article announcing Marc as the 2021 EY Entrepreneur Of The Year®

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Content You’ll Enjoy in this Podcast

[00:01] - Intro

[01:07] - Brief bio for Marc Gorlin

[02:00] - Welcome and opening dialog

[02:35] - The story behind Roadie; Marc’s moment of inspiration; Glenn from UCLA

[05:01] - How Marc and Skip are connected; Steve Denton (Episode 53)

[05:33] - The source of entrepreneurial inspiration in Marc’s life; value of struggle

[07:00] - Opportunity for you to support our work and help keep the wisdom flowing

[08:08] - Marc reveals his Main Thing; the value of a journalism degree

[08:55] - How to gain customers and partners … or convince that first employee to join

[09:30] - Igniting people’s imagination; bringing your ideas to life

[10:00] - Real examples of the business model solving problems; Roadie comes to life

[10:27] - Skip describes the movie that was playing inside his mind

[11:30] - Marc shares two specific pieces of advice for aspiring entrepreneurs

[12:39] - The value of an MVP versus the mythical perfect product

[13:20] - Thank you and so-long

[13:43] - Outro