Steve Martin

Founding Partner of MSQ Sport + Entertainment - a new global sport and entertainment group. 1st inductee to UK Sponsorship Hall of Fame.

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MARTIN AND WYNNE-MORGAN LAUNCH NEW AGENCY https://t.co/Jj2AX4Y9BS

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@spoonybear 100%. Players falling over when not even being touched, 102 min games, WWE in the penalty area, VAR madness…

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Turgid football … and this is the showcase 🥴

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@FabrizioRomano Has been so average otherwise

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@UKFootyBible Because it was an ad being filmed 🤷

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@RPMComo And average game 102 mins …

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This ref needs to send himself off…. never seen worse. Is he a competition winner?? #champsleaguefinal

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Football now a non contact sport according to this Champs League referee.. #joker

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@WilsonCoxLFC Please no

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The opposite of inspirational ….

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"If you are not working 7 days per week, you are going to lose".

Corgi Insurance is the most intense workplace culture in startups.

- The company works 7 days per week.

- Founder (@nico_laqua) lives and sleeps in the office.

- He built a cafe in the office because there was no local cafe that was open 24/7.

- 2/3 of the first 30 team members have the Corgi logo as a tattoo.

Today I went behind the scenes with Nico, who has used this culture to scale the company to a $2.6BN valuation in just two years.

My condensed notes below:

1. If You Are Not Working 7 Days Per Week, You Are Going to Lose:

Whatever you can get done in 5 days, you'll get more done in 6 and 7. If you are trying to solve the world’s hardest problems, a standard 5-day workweek will not cut it.

2. Work Trials Repel the Mediocre:

Corgi forces candidates into mock work trials over the weekend. If seeing a full office on a Saturday scares them, they don't belong. True intensity acts as a natural filter to attract killers and repel clock-watchers.

3. Lead from the Front Lines

You can’t demand 7-day weeks while sitting on a yacht. Nico sleeps 3–4 hours a night on a mattress inside the office. If you want your troops to bleed, you have to be in the trenches with them.

4. Culture Only Means One Thing: Winning

Forget superficial jargon like "hackers" or "ex-founders." Strip away the corporate fluff. A great startup culture is aggressively optimized around one single word: Winning.

5. Lifespan vs. Victories

Building something world-historic requires radical sacrifice. When asked if he'd rather build a trillion-dollar company and die at 50, or fail and live to 80, the answer was easy. "I would rather measure my lifespan in victories."

6. Reject the Comfort of "Quiet Quitting."

If you are operating in a hyper-growth environment and your days off happen to be Saturday and Sunday every single week, you are quiet quitting. To win, you must deliberately bypass the off-ramps of personal comfort and low volatility.

Corgi isn't for everyone—and that’s exactly the point.

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@WilsonCoxLFC Hope not and bigger vision than that

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@indykaila @MoSalah @LFC No thanks

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Arne Slot:

“But two away goals at Villa Park is not bad."

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Liverpool Football Club owners have a duty to their fans to serve the club's best interests.

𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐧𝐞 𝐒𝐥𝐨𝐭 𝐚𝐬 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐫.

The players have lost faith in the manager's tactics.

Liverpool are in a downward spiral, and it will continue into next season if no action is taken.

The fans have lost all emotion and are numb watching the team.

@LFC needs new direction and new life. The fans need hope.

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#LFC 🔴 🚨
According to @David_Ornstein Liverpool will turn down the opportunity to appoint Xabi Alonso to keep Arne Slot…

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@jamierkennedy Totally agree…. Whole set up feels flat and low energy as a result…

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Why aren’t we seeing Rory being presented the Green Jacket on the 18th and Rory’s speech?! Bizarre …

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Hard to listen to this any more really .. 🥴

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Arne Slot on Liverpool losing 10 league games in a season for the first time in a decade ⬇️

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Liverpool stinking the place out at Anfield again. No fire and no leadership to get the team motivated. Rotten.

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@thisisanfield From the Captain who doesn’t seem to be able to ever rouse the team any more