35: Agency Founders Round Table - Dee Deng, Tommy Patterson, Kyle Hunt

Dee Deng (Founder, Right Hook Digital) , Tommy Patterson (Founder, WKND) and Kyle Hunt (COO, WKND) join us at Agency Founders for a round table about running a business/ agency, scaling it, and the process of letting people go.

Dee Deng is the Co-Founder of Right Hook Digital, one of the largest growing agencies in the space. His Company manages millions in ad spend for their growth clients across Australia and the USA. He currently lives in Australia where he works with his team of over 100 remote employees. We're so grateful to Dee for taking the time to fly to the US and hang out with us for a few days.

Tommy grew up with nothing, and after getting evicted at 9 decided "I'm going to be a millionaire." He has since started multiple 7 figure businesses, attended and spoken at conferences all around the world, and has one of the fastest growing agencies in the ecommerce space. 

Kyle Hunt is Tommy's COO and right hand man. His goal is to help DTC Brands scale to multi 8 figures as fast as possible through operations.

You're going to want to watch the whole thing to get the inside scoop on certain SOP's in our businesses, Auditing your own Business, and Changing your Mindset to increase efficiency/profitability.

FOLLOW DEE:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/realdoseofdee
Twitter: https://twitter.com/realdoseofdee
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2VyjYG9EjzeUFMOzZbksaA
Website: https://righthookdigital.com/

FOLLOW KYLE:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kylexhunt/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/huntkyle

FOLLOW TOMMY:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tommypatterson/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/WKNDCEO
Website: https://www.wknddigital.com/

TIMESTAMPS: 

00:00 - Intro
01:46 - Podcast Start/ Introducing the Panel
08:50 -  Reading vs Listening to Books
11:36 - Company Waste Management
14:52 - Dee's "Disobedient Rubik's Cube"
20:33 - Dee's Book Recommendation/ Operation Efficiency
24:35 - Scaling and Refining Agencies
28:57 - Metric Space Process Maps
33:05 - Changing "why" to "what caused"
35:31 - Being out of Touch with your Business
37:02 - We are what we Tolerate
39:32 - Quiet Quitting
42:47 - Facing Problems Head On
44:13 - Auditing Your Own Business
50:43 - Human Capital Debate
52:19 - Headaches per Dollar Earned
57:30 - Only Hire Fully Formed Adults
59:33 - Grass isn't Greener on the other side
1:00:37 - Company Culture
1:22:27 - Separating Relationships from Business
1:29:16 - Tommy Cutting Team Members
1:31:39 - You Cannot Fix a Problem You Don't Understand
1:42:27 - Business During Covid
1:52:55 - Experience vs Potential
1:57:53 - Kyle's Fortune Cookie Advic

2:01:19 - Dee's Fortune Cookie Advice
2:03:39 - Tommy's Fortune Cookie Advice

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EDDIE
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/imakegreatads
Marketing Course: https://www.brilliantmarketers.com/

ANDREW
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Website: https://andrewdeitsch.com
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/andrewdeitsch
Andrew's Other Podcast: https://www.andrewdeitsch.com/podcast