Genius Network

06/19/2026

"This conversation was our best."

Rob Schneider sat down with Joe Polish at the 100K Group Meeting for what Rob called their best conversation yet.

"You don't have to agree with everything I say. Let's use this as a jumping off point."

Real dialogue. No filter. Because the best ideas often come from the most challenging exchanges.

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06/17/2026

Most leaders want a high-performing team. Very few create the conditions for one to actually exist.

In this clip from the Tapping into Genius series, Darrell Sutherland shares the one cultural shift that transformed how his team shows up: helping each person discover their unique ability and then building space for them to use it every day.

Not a new training program. Not another management framework. Just a deliberate decision to help your people understand how they think, how they operate, and what they're genuinely built to do.

The result? People who bring more, care more, and feel good about their work, not because the job got easier, but because it finally fits who they are.

When someone operates inside their genius zone, everything shifts. The output improves. The culture improves. The whole system benefits.

This is what the Tapping into Genius series is built around: the idea that your team's greatest asset isn't their skills, it's their self-awareness.

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06/15/2026

Thank you, Janelle Bruland 🥰

A moment of appreciation for my friend and one of the most giving people I know, Joe Polish of Genius Network.

His book Life Gives to the Giver isn’t just a title, it’s how he lives.

When I went through a serious health crisis last year, Joe was one of the first people to reach out. Not just once, but consistently.

Checking in. Offering support. Providing connections and resources.

That meant more than I can fully express.

In a world where many people are busy, Joe is intentional.

And that shows up in the community he’s built with Genius Network, and in how he shows up for people individually.

Grateful for you, Joe.

06/15/2026

What if 60% of bridges built last year had collapsed? You'd demand accountability. But in addiction treatment, a 60-70% relapse rate within 12 months isn't a crisis. It's the accepted standard.

In his 10-Minute Talk at Genius Network, Applegate does the math the industry avoids. A standard 30-day program costs $12,500. A 60% relapse rate means 60% of clients are funneled right back through the front door. For a 60-bed facility, that's $450,000 in additional revenue built entirely on treatment failure.

And instead of asking what's going wrong, the industry turns to the client: "You didn't work hard enough."

Jimmie has lived inside this space. He's watched these incentives play out in real time. This isn't a critique from the outside. It's a challenge from someone within the industry who refuses to accept the standard.

If you work in recovery, love someone navigating it, or believe industries should actually measure results, this conversation is worth your time.

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06/09/2026

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06/09/2026

When Mark Rukavina launched KnowledgeNet in 1999, one terabyte of server storage cost a million dollars.

That's not a typo. One terabyte. One million dollars.

To run that business, he had to raise $70 million dollars. Every engineer cost $150,000. Every license from Sun and Oracle ran into the hundreds of thousands.

Today, the same business takes almost nothing to build. Automation does the heavy lift. Storage is essentially free. Compute is rented by the minute. AI handles the engineering work that used to require a team of 50.

This is why everyone is freaking out about AI right now. Anyone who has ever built a tech company the old-fashioned way knows what is now possible. The sky is the limit. Anyone can be successful.

Mark Rukavina has built and sold three tech companies, including iMemories (acquired by Ancestry). His take on the AI era: do the work, learn how to harness it, and point it in the direction of your passion.

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06/08/2026

Anna David on the thought that changed everything: you are not the voice in your head. You are the witness to it.

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06/08/2026

Tapping Into Genius

Genius Network member Perry Gladstone shares the boundary-setting rule he never breaks.

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06/07/2026

We spent a lot of money hiring great people from Apple, Hewlett-Packard, and other big tech companies.

Every single one of them failed at our startup.

It wasn't their fault. They were excellent at what they did. The problem is that the job is different. At Apple, the products are already built. The brand is already established. The engineering team is already in place.

At a startup, when you tell a new VP of Marketing to "go create a market and build customer acquisition from scratch," they look at you and say "I need a team of 30 to do that." And you have to say no. It is just you. Prove to me you need one more person.

Mark Rukavina has built and sold three tech companies. The hiring lesson he keeps relearning: at early stage, you want scrappy, intelligent people who can execute alone. Not polished operators from a Fortune 500.

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06/05/2026

What's the first thing you'd grab if your house was burning down?

For 115 million American households, the answer sits in a box in the closet. Home movies. Photo albums. Old slides. Negatives. Decades of family memories that almost nobody has digitized.

Mark Rukavina built iMemories twenty years ago when this entire category was a cottage industry. No big brands. No real technology. No web presence. Just local shops with stacks of VHS tapes nobody trusted to send away.

He saw the gap and built what is now the largest home-movie digitization company in the United States, possibly the world. Coast to coast. 24/7. Almost fully automated.

The insight: when something is universally precious but universally ignored, the opportunity is bigger than most people see.

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