Today, we get to talk with the VP of Growth at IMVU, the World’s Largest 3D Avatar Chat game. We’re hanging with Lomit Patel. Lomit is a seasoned growth marketing executive who has held leadership roles at various early-stage startups to help scale growth to $500M+ valuations including Roku (IPO), Texture (acquired by Apple), TrustedID (acquired by Equifax), and Earthlink. 

He is a public speaker, author, advisor, and recognized as a Mobile Hero by Liftoff. Lomit’s new best-selling book, LEAN AI: How Innovative Startups Use Artificial Intelligence to Grow hit #1 as a New Release in Business Marketing upon its release back in March.

This episode is so powerful as Lomit opens up and gets vulnerable about his childhood and how his experiences as a kid helped set him up for the success that he has created today.

Some of the things we talk about are:

• The importance of defining success and failure for yourself instead of living it through someone else's lens.
• How he learned at a young age that it's better to be interested than to be interesting.
• The importance of being able to communicate well with people. If you don't know how to communicate well, you will be limited to how far you can go.
• Why we need to build the muscle of resiliency by putting ourselves outside of our comfort zone.
• Why as parents we need to define the action instead of the person.
• If people should pursue failure.
• Parenting & failure and the importance of actions over words. 

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