028 | "The YouTube For Business Videos" (Milan at ivs.TV)

Nov 29

Today’s guest on the “Phil with F30” podcast is Milan Reinartz – CEO of iVideoSmart

Forbes List: Asia
Year: 2018
Category: Media. Marketing, and Advertising

Milan Reinartz is the CEO of iVideoSmart (iVS). The company is South East Asia’s largest B2B video publishing and monetization platform. It’s like YouTube for business. iVS allows businesses to monetize their video content more effectively with a unique, proprietary process. iVS reaches over 120 million unique views on over 1.3 billion pages each month.

Milan quickly realized that even though he was making a great living working in advertising, he could make even more money being true to his calling as an entrepreneur. He realized through his early experience of flipping “things” over the Internet that he could achieve great profit margins. More importantly, he didn’t have to work such long hours to reach his financial goals.

Milan explained his first successful venture and the process to get there. I was impressed with what Milan learned from that experience and how his approach has changed as he’s continued to grow his new company.

As a coach, I can clearly see how Milan’s success is a result of hard work and passion. Yet at some point, a successful leader empowers his team to take on more responsibility and ownership for the product or company to really succeed and grow. Milan addressed that in our conversation. He also spoke about the need to listen to his staff, investors, and customers.

We also discussed how he approaches company challenges so that problems can be solved quickly and how to structure the environment for quick pivots.

Milan’s personal story is unique and interesting. His road to continued success is inspiring. I hope you enjoy our conversation!

“Under 30 Seconds Round”

1. What is the book you’ve gifted more often than any other book, and why?

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*uck, Mark Manson. I think most people's biggest problems are their values, ego, and how they approach things. I think Manson has a good method for entrepreneurs to change their approaches.

2. What’s one of the best investments and one of the worst investments you’ve ever made and why?

Best - Building a house in New Zealand.
Worst - My shoe collection.

3. What’s the most impactful thing you do in your Morning routine and the most impactful thing you do in your Evening routine?

AM - Yoga - three or four times a week. Bike riding or other exercises.
PM - Cuddling with my fiancé and having a glass of whiskey.

4. Pretend you won the Peter Thiel Fellowship and you were going to get money to start a business instead of going to college, what’s the very first thing you’d do to start a new business?

Find out what to do and who to do it with. Build a team, look for a partner or co-founder.

5. What’s something you never knew you needed?

Time. Time for myself.

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GUEST INFO: Milan Reinartz – CEO of iVideoSmart