12. Gennadi Tschernow

Aligned Founder

Gennadi Tschernow is an investor & the co-founder of Invincible Brands, a company which he successfully exited in 2020.

Gena & his family immigrated from Russia when he was 8yrs old and he grew up in a transitional residence in Germany. He ⁠⁠started his first business in school age 17, and despite of initially ⁠⁠wanting to become an investment banker, he went on to start a number of companies.

One of these was Invincible Brands, an E-comm startup which he co-founded in 2015. IB was a multi-faceted company built up off the back of social media influencer trends, and was sold to a public listed company in 2020. Gena is now investor, a initiator and co-founder of several businesses in the consumer and E-commerce space.

In this podcast, we explore:

• Gena’s first experiences of breathwork.
• His early business life & first companies he founded, including very successful one.
• 3 biggest challenges he faced en route to business success.
• Key personality trait he saw in his most successful employees.
• Why Gena decided to become an entrepreneur.
• His story of finally buying a Ferrari.
• Overcoming a feeling of “Flatness” as a founder after exiting their company.
• Difference between psychedelics, breathwork & coaching for Gena.
• Experience of coming to Bali for a retreat with Pete.
• How life might have been different if he found Breathwork at the start of his career.
• His unconventional advice to entrepreneurs at the early stages of their journey.

You can find him on LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/gtschernow

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