Make No Small Plans by Elliott Bisnow Summary
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Four friends with zero experience built Summit, hosting icons like Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson. "Make No Small Plans" reveals their audacious journey endorsed by Ray Dalio and Kendrick Lamar. Want to chase impossible dreams? This blueprint shows how.
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When Rejection Becomes Your Greatest Teacher
Four twenty-somethings with barely any money decided to throw a party during the worst economic crisis in generations. Elliott Bisnow, living in his childhood bedroom and cold-calling strangers to sell newsletter ads, invited twenty acquaintances on a ski trip to Utah. Every single person said no. Most responses ranged from polite confusion to outright dismissal. But instead of accepting defeat, Elliott had a revelation: he wasn't thinking big enough. His contacts weren't inspiring enough. This moment of universal rejection became the birth of Summit-a global community that would eventually connect thousands of entrepreneurs, artists, and thought leaders, influence policy at the White House, and culminate in the audacious purchase of an entire mountain. The lesson? Sometimes the universe's loudest "no" is actually pointing you toward a much bigger "yes."
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