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Eric Tjoeng grew up in Indonesia in a family of seven entrepreneurs, started his first business venture at age 12 promoting a comedy show, and eventually moved to Australia to build a career starting at Deloitte. After 20+ years in senior executive roles at multinationals - including GM of a $1.4B automotive group - he founded Business Growth and Exit Specialists (BGES) in Sydney, where he now helps small and medium businesses grow strategically and exit successfully. He's 100% sophisticated, and the data agrees. Chapters: 00:00 - Intro and Australia Fun Fact: The Dingo Fence 01:11 - Scrappy or Sophisticated? Eric's Answer 02:45 - Growing Up in Indonesia with 7 Entrepreneurs 05:28 - Age 12 Comedy Show Promoter and First Investment 07:14 - Deloitte, Multinationals, and the SME Shift 10:34 - Why SME Owners Work Hard But Don't Get Returns 13:27 - The Dashboard Formula and Data-Driven Strategy 17:35 - Founding BGES and Getting That First Client 25:40 - The Australia Exit Crisis: 200K Exits, 45K Walk Away With Nothing 31:10 - The BGES Exit Formula and Business Valuation 38:44 - Speed vs. Strategy - Eric's Answer 40:27 - Lightning Round: Inbox, Celebrations, and Vetting Clients 43:39 - Final Verdict: 100% Sophisticated Guest Links: https://www.linkedin.com/in/etjoeng/ https://bges.co Connect with Jack: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-tompkins/ https://www.pineapplecf.com https://www.pineappleanalyst.ai https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCalnj5yLU0ZH9y_tVl1J4ng

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What does it really take to build a business that creates higher returns AND more joy? Tina Dao, founder of Liberated Leaders, has lived the answer - from baking cupcakes for her dad's hunting camps and negotiating car loans with her grandpa at 17, to leading operations at Amazon, Fitbit, and Walmart before launching her own fractional COO firm. In this episode, Tina and Jack dig into conscious capitalism, the "silver tsunami" of business transitions, why the trades are safer than college right now, and how to know when your company needs to move between scrappy and sophisticated. Chapters: 00:00 - Intro + fun fact: butterflies taste with their feet 00:54 - Scrappy vs. sophisticated: Tina's take on the tension between the two 02:00 - Growing up in Western Colorado with sheep ranchers and serial entrepreneurs 09:04 - First hustles: baking for hunting camps, babysitting, and cleaning houses at 12 13:42 - Negotiating a car loan from grandpa at 17 - with a term sheet 15:32 - A 2.0 GPA, 98s on every test, and why the trades beat college right now 19:06 - US Navy electronics technician to corporate operations 25:32 - Starting Liberated Leaders and the case for conscious capitalism 29:25 - Landing the first client, the family bet, and the real cost of going out on your own 35:15 - Lightning round: scrappy studio, inbox limits, and corporate pet peeves 43:39 - The Liberated Leaders pitch: 5-10x returns, more delight, and the silver tsunami Tina Dao - Liberated Leaders https://www.liberatedleaders.com Connect with Jack: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-tompkins/ https://www.pineapplecf.com https://www.pineapplejacktompkins.com/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCalnj5yLU0ZH9y_tVl1J4ng

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If you're a fractional consultant and you want AI-powered insights for your clients, where you get the credit (and don't want to be an AI-expert yourself), this is for you! We're launching this beta test right now with QuickBooks as our main data source so you get a dashboard in under 2 minutes that comes with a customizable AI Analyst. Reach out to be part of it: support@pineapplecf.com More details: https://www.pineappleanalyst.ai/ Full video: https://youtu.be/lLNu10DpFPI Need AI data infrastructure first? We got you: https://www.pineapplecf.com/ai-analyst-implementation

What happens when a corporate employee discovers Amazon, teaches himself e-commerce, becomes a CMO, and then realizes the whole agency model is broken? You get Tanner Rankin - founder of Source Approach, Referazon, and the Brand Source OS - and a seriously compelling story about turning scrappy roots into a sophisticated operating system for brands. Tanner breaks down how he built the Brand Operating System from a pile of spreadsheets, why most brands fail their agency partners (not the other way around), and what it actually looks like to make marketing predictable and repeatable. If you're tired of random acts of marketing, this one's for you. Chapters: 0:00 - Intro and fun fact 0:52 - Scrappy roots: corporate robot turned Amazon seller 4:07 - The CMO role and the cold hard look in the mirror 12:34 - Building Source Approach and the first Brand OS 19:35 - Entrepreneur ADD, Referazon, and solving the right problems 26:09 - Fake it till you make it and the MVP trap 30:44 - Who Source Approach serves today 33:06 - The woodsman in a suit: office tour and lightning round 45:42 - KPIs, client success, and what makes marketing repeatable Connect with Tanner: Website: https://www.sourceapproach.com Personal site: https://www.tannerrankin.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tannerrankin/ Referazon: https://www.referazon.com Connect with Jack: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-tompkins/ https://www.pineapplecf.com https://www.pineapplejacktompkins.com/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCalnj5yLU0ZH9y_tVl1J4ng

If you're a fractional consultant and you want AI-powered insights for your clients, where you get the credit (and don't want to be an AI-expert yourself), this is for you! We're launching this beta test right now with QuickBooks as our main data source so you get a dashboard in under 2 minutes that comes with a customizable AI Analyst. Reach out to be part of it: support@pineapplecf.com More details: https://www.pineappleanalyst.ai/ Need AI data infrastructure first? We got you: https://www.pineapplecf.com/ai-analyst-implementation

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