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Creating a company from scratch requires a ton of hard work and sacrifice. Maintaining a healthy work/life balance makes it all that more difficult, but it is doable. This week on the Mastering Retention Podcast, Tom speaks with fellow entrepreneur and business owner, Brett Nowak (CEO & Founder of Liquid and Grit), about how they have managed to find a healthy work/life balance in the midst of creating and maintaining their businesses. Here are your cheat codes: - 0:48 How did Brett Nowak get into the video game industry? - 2:53 Nowak details the origins and purpose of his company, Liquid and Grit. - 4:30 What does Liquid and Grit’s ideal customer look like? - 6:36 How does “Game Refinery” differ from “Liquid and Grit”? - 8:21 Modeling game economies. - 9:43 Acquiring live Ops data. - 17:02 Collecting data from surveys - 23:34 Physiologically satisfying in-game offers. - 28:33 A detailed conversation about starting a company, potentially selling that company, and achieving work-life balance. - 52:47 An ideal approach to team building within a company. - 57:47 The gap between a good developer and a great developer. - 1:08:02 How to keep more players around longer. |