Scaling a Business Through Charity: A Path to Growth or Self-Deception

Main subjects

AVAlexander VolchekScaling your business and yourselfBusiness scalingTruthTelegramLove, help, and rescuing others

Main threads of the conversation

• 00:00Welcome to Alexander Volchek's channel. It's all about growth and expansion
• 00:30Does a business's social mission help it grow?
• 02:42Your opinion matters to us
• 03:37What is true charity?
• 08:16Why pretend that business isn't just about money?
• 12:48A story from my life
• 16:29Marketing, sales, and social mission: Apple and Yandex
• 20:25An example of charity
• 22:50Lies about numbers: Telegram and X/Twitter
• 25:03Self-deception for personal gain

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Individual claims identified in the material: who said them, when, and what kind of thought they express. Each timestamp opens that point in the video.

• 03:29

  In this video, I want to examine this in detail, sort out the causes and effects, so we can all look together at what actually constitutes true charity, a real mission, and a real social purpose for a company.

  Alexander Volchek

• 05:28

  This subject is incredibly important, because an enormous number of people live in a great illusion.

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• 05:46

  How important it is to know and understand this, to truly understand what's actually happening.

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• 11:32

  People around us say things like, you should work in education because it benefits people.

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• 13:20

  They asked, “Why won't he be taking lessons with this teacher?” Because I think this teacher will teach him to play chess, but will very probably bring something into my son's life that I wouldn't want brought into it.

  Alexander Volchekcausecomparison

• 13:54

  When you study with a teacher in an open state, you absorb more than the subject. You absorb that person's thinking, their approaches, their world and their perception.

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• 14:09

  I said, “I don't want my son to absorb this person's approaches.” It's remarkable how often we may fail to notice what brings benefit and what brings harm.

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• 21:22

  The most important thing you can do is not deceive yourself at that moment: tell yourself the real truth about why you're doing it.

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• 22:49

  We were recording a podcast about Telegram and Pavel Durov being detained in France. We discussed it; by the time this video comes out, there may already be various updates.

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• 25:54

  And in any case, you'll lose the employees to whom you communicate illusions and false goals, because those people will be living in their own illusions, like the chess teacher I mentioned.

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