James Altucher is an entrepreneur, podcaster and author of 17 books, including the Wall Street Journal best-seller The Power of No and Choose Yourself! He has founded or co-founded more than 20 businesses, including Reset Inc. and StockPickr, which he later sold for $10 million each. A prolific writer, Altucher has been blogging since 2010 and writes for sites like The Financial Times, TheStreet.com, The New York Observer and The Huffington Post. Most recently he is known for his popular podcasts, The James Altucher Show, Ask Altucher and Freakonomics.

But Altucher has also detailed his “1,001 failures,” including losing $20 million of seed money, failed books, failed classes and failed relationships. It’s these hard-knock lessons that led to much of his current success, brutally honest blogs and no-nonsense podcast episodes.

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