The Outlier Approach: How to Triumph in Your Career as a Nonconformist - Paperback

by Kevin Hong (Author)

PRACTICAL TACTICS AND REAL STORIES TO HELP YOU MAKE BREAKTHROUGHS IN YOUR CAREERYou don't need a fancy ivy-league degree, to be born into wealth, or have great connections to achieve MASSIVE SUCCESSNot everyone is like Steve Jobs or Elon Musk. However, that doesn't mean massive success isn't right around the corner. Often times, our perceived weaknesses are our greatest strengths. FLIP YOUR WEAKNESSES INTO STRENGTHS. Our Most valuable resource is time. It is the only resource that is not replenishable. In the name of networking, we waste precious time spending it on networks that hold us back. Stay away from the Frenemy Zone and learn to build a vertical network.LEARN THE TRICKS OF TRADING SOCIAL VALUE TO BUILD POWERFUL CONNECTIONS IN ANY INDUSTRY From building his last startup to a $15M valuation to selling beepers in Compton and making nearly $10K/month after immigrating to the US with broken English, Kevin Hong has learned the power of selling vision. Sell vision to win job interviews, raise money, and recruit superstars for your cause. MASTER THE ART OF SELLING VISION TO ANYONEKevin Hong who has been featured in the NY Times, LA Times, The Verge, CNBC, and many other media outlets and who has contributed articles to CNBC, Forbes, Huffington Post, and Inc. Magazine will teach you the Power of Reality Distortion. He built his last startup by living in a van with his entire sales team for over 2 years and raised over $4M in venture capital money. RE-ENGINEER YOUR REALITY BY RE-DEFINING YOUR EXPECTATIONSToo many books discuss the same people, the same companies, and the same concepts, resulting in cliche advice. Kevin Hong, a brutally candid journalist, goes out of his way to interview the most breathtaking stories. An entrepreneur who reinvented himself after growing up in communist Romania, an executive who connected Psy (Gangnam Style) with Scooter Braun (Justin Beiber's manager) to turn the hit song viral, an ex-NBA basketball star reinventing himself on the fly, and many more entrepreneurs, executives, and even celebrities. REAL-LIFE EXAMPLES AND STORIES ALONG WITH ACTIONABLE ITEMS Deep inside we are all nonconformists and you will never have the career or lifestyle you desire by following the status quo.BUY NOW AND UNLEASH THE NONCONFORMIST IN YOU

Author Biography

Kevin is the best-selling author of The Outlier Approach: How to Triumph in Your Career as a Nonconformist. Previously, Kevin grew his startup Dealflicks up to a $15M valuation. He is currently the Chief of Business Development for Sinemia, a MoviePass competitor, and an advisor to several startups and executives. Kevin's work as an entrepreneur has been featured in CNBC, Times, Forbes, NY Times, LA Times, Xinhua News (China), Korea Times, NDR (Germany) and countless other media outlets globally. His writing has also been featured in CNBC, Forbes, Inc, HuffPost, and many more. Kevin's career began at 18, when he dropped out of college and began making nearly $10,000 per month in a networking marketing business despite speaking broken English after moving back from Korea. After realizing he wanted to achieve bigger things in life, Kevin finished college with a degree in finance and became a Stock Broker in Wall Street during the Great Recession and then a Research Analyst for William O'Neil (Investors Business Daily). He then successfully transitioned his career to Silicon Valley to cofound his startup and his success lead him to a C-Level position for a subsidiary of a publicly traded company (Vista Group) that was the most dominant POS provider in the movie industry. Before the age of 31, Kevin not only transformed his identity from a deer-in-a headlights-immigrant, but perfectly assimilated to American culture and has had great success as an executive and an entrepreneur in Wall Street, Silicon Valley, and Hollywood. His story along with his experience working with executives and entrepreneurs in all walks of life are highlighted in his bestselling book The Outlier Approach