Power Players
In "Power Players" Haroon Bokhary chats with the brightest and boldest entrepreneurs, CEOs, finance gurus, authors, and business titans about their rise to the top. From epic wins to crushing failures, we'll explore the guts, grit, and glory behind their success stories.
Power Players
Fares Ksebati – CEO of MySwimPro
Fares Ksebati is the founder and CEO creator of MySwimPro, the #1 fitness app for swimmers. It has gotten over a million downloads and won Apple Watch App of the Year in 2016.
Fares is also a YouTube creator with over 2 million subscribers. He has written two books: (1) Swim Like a Pro and (2) How to Invest in Startups.
Fares founded the World Swim Day in 2018. He is an active angel investor and also founded the Startup Investor Academy. Fares made it to the Forbes 30 under 30 list in 2020.
In our conversation we talked about what inspired him to create MySwimPro, building a team and scaling to over seven figures in revenue. Fares shares how making the Forbes 30 under 30 list impacted his life, and gives plenty of advice for aspiring entrepreneurs. He tells us the story of how he wrote a book in 30 days and his plans for the future.
Show notes:
(0:00) Intro
(1:26) Childhood to college
(2:20) Walk-on in college
(4:51) Aspirations to be a professional swimmer
(7:55) How the idea for MySwimPro came about
(11:09) Marketing something that did not exist
(12:50) How to build a team
(14:10) How to find co-founders
(16:21) Being named Apple Watch app of the year
(20:43) Evolution of the MySwimPro app
(22:18) Plans to scale
(23:50) Making Forbes 30u30
(25:00) Secret behind so much content
(28:04) Creative state secrets
(30:10) Managing many responsibilities
(33:02) Becoming an author
(36:07) Process to write a book
(41:28) Public accountability
(43:12) Angel investing
(45:45) Interviewing entrepreneurs
(47:54) Mentors
(48:54) One thing that contributed the most to his success
(50:22) The iconic white jacket
(53:15) Advice for entrepreneurs
(54:26) Happiness and purpose: the seasons of life
(56:57) Rapid fire questions
Fares Ksebati links:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/faresksebati/
Personal website: https://www.faresksebati.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/faresksebati/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/FaresKsebati
YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/@FaresKsebati
https://www.youtube.com/@myswimpro
https://www.youtube.com/@fksebati
Books:
Swim Like a Pro
Invest in Startups
My links:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/haroonbokhary
Twitter: https://twitter.com/haroonbokhary
Blog: https://www.haroonbokhary.com/