How They Did It started as a question:
How They Did It started as a question: could we assemble the greatest champion company founders from the Heartland, in one room, and multi-author a book in an hour? Sounds crazy. And yet, we assembled 21 of the 45 leaders interviewed in How They Did It at the Four Seasons Hotel in Chicago in 2008…never realizing it would take years to finish assembling and interviewing the winning 45, interview, edit and publish the final book.
You could ask, why the Heartland? That’s a little secret from author Robert Jordan, who had a chip on his shoulder — just a little annoyance that folks in Silicon Valley were ignoring the Heartland way too much. So, he set out to prove it just ain’t so and that much of the greatest innovations take place far from The Valley.
How They Did It is a book and site for people with big ideas and entrepreneurial ventures seeking to fuel their own growth and achieve victories in the marketplace.
Elevate your inner entrepreneur as you learn from billionaires whose ideas and executions have changed the world. Go behind the scenes first with 45 successful company founders featured in the book How They Did It: Billion Dollar Insights from the Heart of America to learn from their early steps, big gains, and mistakes. Discover how they ultimately triumphed to create $41 billion from scratch and then go on to discuss what works and what doesn’t with others.
The conversation starts with these home run hitters but the connections and talk extend way beyond, with champions, additional stories, secrets, and advice/insights being revealed. Successful and aspiring company founders unite!
About the Author
Robert James Jordan has launched companies and helped other owners and investors build their companies for 25+ years. After founding the first Internet-coverage magazine in the world, Online Access, and landing on the Inc 500 list of fastest-growing companies, Jordan sold the magazine and began taking on interim CEO gigs. High multiple company sales and IPOs followed. In 2007 he started an online network for interim executives around the globe, expanding to 2,300 executives from 45 countries. Jordan then co-founded InterimExecs, helping owners and investors with powerful leadership on demand through InterimExecs RED Team (Rapid Executive Deployment). Jordan is author of How They Did It: Billion Dollar Insights from the Heart of America, author of the Nightingale-Conant audio program How They Did It, publishing partner for Start With No, Jim Camp’s bestselling book and audio on negotiation, and co-author of an upcoming book on leadership style.
