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Justin and Jason speak with Derek Sivers<\/a> about how and why he created, and ultimately sold, CD Baby<\/a>, his transition from being a musician to being a coder and entrepreneur, how he was able to run an 85 person company by working remotely for most of its existence, why even as the CEO of CD Baby he wrote all of the code himself, how he was able to build such a large following on the web (almost 300K Twitter followers<\/a> and an email list of approximately 200K), why he finds stories to be the best way to impart insight and why keeping his posts short has helped to magnify their influence, why he feels the need to be transparent and openly share his ideas for new businesses, why minimalism and solitude make him happy, and whether or not he’s the real word version of Caine from the 70’s TV series Kung Fu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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