The Thought Leader Revolution Podcast | 10x Your Impact, Your Income & Your Influence

“You know what? Every founder up here who has got this exponential growth that you think happens overnight,’ he said to me, ‘each one of those has eight years of zero, but they never f***ing gave up.” Success in business isn’t about having the flashiest idea; it’s about solving a real, pressing problem. Too many startups focus on a vision of scale before they’ve even validated their core offering. The most successful founders are those who hyper-focus on a single problem, test their solution relentlessly, and avoid the trap of building something nobody actually needs. Without solving a genuine problem, a business is just a hobby with overhead. Justin Wood knows this better than most. As a serial entrepreneur and agency owner, he’s spent years helping founders avoid the all-too-common pitfalls of tech startups. His approach? Learn from failure, mitigate risk, and ensure entrepreneurs don’t bet their entire financial future on unproven concepts. Justin Wood is the founder of Produktiv, an agency dedicated to he