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Inc. 5000 Profiles REAL WISDOM of TALK OUR 2020 the CROWD Inc.’s favorite entrepreneurs offer the best of REAL TALK, their smartest advice on succeeding in the coming year. SPONSORED BY THE INC. 5000 HONOREES WHOSE PROFILES APPEAR IN THE FOLLOWING PAGES. When you speak to as many founders as Inc. does,does, you get expert insights into just about every issueissue crucial to building a breakout business. The most succesuccessfulssful of those folks can be found in Real Talk interviews, a showcase for hard-won wiwisdomsdom from people who have faced the punipunishingshing challenges of entrepreneentrepreneurshipurship and prevailed to become household namenames.s.• In the pagepagess that follow, you’ll find their their insights insights distilled distilled into into memorable memorable quotes quotes chosen chosen by our editors. You’ll also find profiles of ofa fewa few of ofour our 2020 2020 Inc. Inc. 5000 5000 honoree honorees,s, each one just a step away from that same kind of succesuccess.ss. In fact, don’t be surprisurprisedsed if you see one or two of them in these pagepagess next year.• Until then, it’s with their support that we’we’veve collected the best of this year’s Real Talk and prepresentsent it to you here. We hope you enjoy it—and that it offers just what you need to continue on the journey to your own seat at the Real Talk table. Inc.’s Real Talk video series features entre­ preneurial luminaries weighing in with advice and insights on everything from pitching investors to leading during a crisis. Watch them all at inc.com/ real­talk. GETTY (3) ● ● ● ●WINTER NOVEMBER 2020/ 20202021 ● INC. ● 99 1220_BOB_RealTalk_rev1_1276039.indd 99 12/2/20 3:24 PM The hardest REAL necessary skill TALK Leadership to learn 2020 “YOU CAN HAVE INFLUENCES AND PEOPLE WHO ARE CLOSE TO YOU TO HELP GUIDE YOU TO THE RIGHT DECISION, BUT ULTIMATELY YOU DRIVE YOUR CAREER.” MARIA SHARAPOVA In October, Sharapova, winner of five Grand Slam singles tennis titles and co-founder of high-end candy company Sugarpova, spoke with Inc. about balancing the guidance of the team around you with your own instincts and judgment. “A great mentor is the one who pushes back, who says, ‘No, I disagree. I don’t think that’s going to work.’ Then you have to prove it.” TARIQ FARID Founder of fresh fruit gift basket franchise Edible Arrangements, Farid noted in June that while many mentors will help you navigate career questions, a mentor who also challenges your ideas and sends you back to the drawing board will help you learn about yourself. 1220_BOB_RealTalk_1276039.indd 100 12/1/20 5:20 PM “IF OUR VALUES “Your“Yo ur cultureculture isis notnot the Ping-PongPing-Pong table.table. DON’T MATCH, YourYour cultureculture isis notnot the happy hourhour THERE’S NO LEVEL onon Fridays. YourYour OF MANAGE MENT cultureculture isis actually THAT WILL always happening.” CHANGE THAT.” MATT MULLENWEG Co-founder of website-building platform WordPress and TRISTAN WALKER Automattic, its parent company, Mullenweg explained in a July Real Talk conversation how to maintain a strong During a Real Talk conversation in August, company culture even without a physical office. Walker, founder and CEO of Walker & Company Brands, said that he wanted to have a framework of objectivity to guide his decision-making, so he came up with six personal values to use as a foundation: courage, inspiration, “You“Yo u can respect, judgment, wellness, communicatecommunicate and loyalty. aroundaround ‘mi‘mission’ssion’ withoutwithout it soundingsounding too sappy.” RANDY GOLDBERG Get Jason Fried’s tips on Goldberg revealed in a September Real Talk conversation maintaining efficiency and preserving company two things that helped his sock company, Bombas, reach culture while running your company remotely, at profitability in only two years: sticking to the mission, and inc.com/real-talk. being willing to say no. “The fundamental uunderpinningnderpinning of beinbeingg JASON FRIED a great manager iiss jjustust Co-founder and CEO aboaboutut givingivingg pepeopleople of software company Basecamp, Fried the time and trustrustt they is also author of neneeded to ddoo great wowork.”rk.” several books, including Remote: Office Not Required. During a Real Talk conversation in May, he shared some of the lessons he’s learned from manag ing the Basecamp team remotely for 21 years. CONTINUED ON PAGE 103 FROM LEFT: GETTY; REDUX; ROG & BEE WALKER; JAMES CHOROROS; COURTESY SUBJECT; SHAYAN ASGHARNIA SHAYAN SUBJECT; COURTESY CHOROROS; JAMES & BEE WALKER; REDUX; ROG GETTY; LEFT: FROM ● ● ● WINTER 2020/2021 ● INC. ● 101 1220_BOB_RealTalk_1276039.indd 101 12/1/20 5:20 PM INC. 5000 HONOREE SPOTLIGHT ⬤ A-SHA FOODS USA The Business Elevating the Ramen Game With Taiwanese roots and a steadfast belief in its product, A-Sha Foods is building an American brand Ramen noodles used to mean college kid food—an inexpensive meal hack for people 2020 on a budget. A-Sha Foods’ ramen noodles are Ranking diff erent. They’re tasty, certainly, but they are also made with sustainable, premium A-Sha Foods is poised for future 392 ingredients and air-dried, not deep-fried like growth, creating meals with sustainable other brands. ingredients and plant based protein With a 1,182 percent three-year growth rate, A-Sha Foods ranks no. 392 on the Inc. 5000. easy to convince the U.S. to spend more for a CEO Young Chang says they are poised for premium ramen product, but Chang did not even more explosive growth and on a mission waiver. He began selling online, then graduated to become a well-known American brand. He to specialty stores, and, one year later, his fi rst $5.9 credits success to the quality of the product, grocery store, Safeway. In 2015, Chang left his million perseverance, and a strong leadership team. job at Warner Bros. to offi cially launch A-Sha 2019 Sales Foods U.S.A. Some people thought he was A “NEW” BUSINESS crazy, but his mentors supported him. Their WITH A LONG HISTORY support was really helpful. So was the support Chang offi cially launched the company in of Liao, who provided Chang guidance at every 2015, but the noodles originate from a noodle turn and invested in safe-food certifi cations at factory in Tainan, Taiwan, that started in the factory level. “When the opportunity comes 1977 using a 100-year-old Taiwanese recipe. to work with a Costco or a Walmart, we are 7 Chang’s business partner, Henry Liao, CEO of ready,” Chang says. Breeze Group, the largest shopping mall chain The next few years were a blur. Ramen Employees in Taiwan, acquired the factory in 2011. Liao noodle shops began to take off nationwide, had “zero experience in the food industry,” but and A-Sha was ready to ride the ramen wave. he was struck by the quality of the product. “Success is the convergence of opportunity Chang, who grew up in the U.S., was also and preparedness,” Chang says. “We focused impressed. “I think everyone knows ramen on being the best at what we do, and when [traditionally] has a lot of MSG and sodium people were ready to accept a premium ramen and is a food we eat out of necessity. This noodle, we were ready, too.” 1182% was so diff erent from anything I’ve had in the National distribution deals with 3-Year States,” he says. mainstream retailers, partnerships with Growth Liao asked Chang if he wanted to partner Asian markets in all 50 states, and a growing and bring Taiwanese ramen to the rest of the presence in Canada contribute to A-Sha’s world. Chang saw the potential, and they both growth. But Chang is most focused on building knew they would do things the industry had the brand in the States. “We want people to never seen. see A-Sha and know, instantly, “They stand for best-tasting, premium, ramen. We strive to READY TO RIDE THE RAMEN WAVE elevate the ramen experience.” Chang led A-Sha’s foray into the Western market while working his 9-5 job. It wasn’t ASHADRYNOODLE.COM CREATED FOR A-SHA FOODS USA BY INC. STUDIO REAL TALK Leadership 2020 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 101 “The only way forward, “WE HAVE if you’re an entrepreneuentrepreneurr TO START who wants to bubuildild something better, is SUPPORTING to get on the side of PEOPLE FROM change, not to fight THE BOTTOM against change.” SETH GODIN UP, NOT Author of 19 books, Godin is a marketing expert, FROM THE the founder of online leadership workshop altMBA, and the host of the Akimbo podcast. TOP DOWN.” In a May Real Talk, he discussed his definition of good marketing, common traps that can MARK CUBAN sink a business, and how brands can best Cuban, Shark Tank co-star and reach their audiences. NBA owner, made the business case for tackling income inequality and racism in an “There’s a hugehuge differdiffer enceence October interview. There, between leading innova tion he offered useful ways to think and leading innovatively.” about applying what he calls “compas sionate capitalism.” JESSICA NORDLANDER Ex-Google executive and former chief digital officer for global travel group STS Education, Nordlander is the chief operations officer at com mu nity intelligence software company Thoughtexchange. In September, she told Inc. that it’s important not to confuse innova- tors with innovative leaders. CONTINUED ON PAGE 105 FROM LEFT: JILL GREENBERG; COURTESY SUBJECT; GETTY SUBJECT; COURTESY JILL GREENBERG; LEFT: FROM ● ● ● WINTER 2020/2021 ● INC. ● 103 1220_BOB_RealTalk_rev1_1276039.indd 103 12/2/20 3:24 PM INC. 5000 HONOREE SPOTLIGHT ⬤ SEDERA Ending the Status Quo in Health Care Most health insurance plans don’t have high customer satisfaction scores, but Sedera’s medical cost-sharing model off ers an alternative The free-market system has produced some technology to allow health care consumers to of the most innovative products and services fi nd aff ordable, quality, and meaningful care.
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