How Ironman Made Me A Better Founder

Dan Martell

1 min readAug 15, 2022

A couple questions for you…

Do you have to do an Ironman to know how to run a successful business?

Do you have to even know what Ironman is to run a great business?

Of course not… but there’s A LOT of overlap.

Let me explain…

Check out today’s video. I’ll walk you through it.

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Dan Martell is a serial entrepreneur, an investor in 40+ startups like Intercom, Udemy, and Unbounce and the creator of SaaS Academy, helping over 800 B2B SaaS founders scale faster. He’s founded five SaaS companies and successfully exited three of them. If you want to scale faster without hitting the usual roadblocks, make sure to follow him on Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn & Twitter.

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Originally published at https://www.danmartell.com on August 15th, 2022.

How Ironman Made Me A Better Founder

Written by Dan Martell

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