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Jake Jorgovan is a Serial Entrepreneur, Podcast Producer and Business Advisor.

He is the Founder of Content Allies and Lead Cookie. Through these companies he has generated $40M+ in sales for his clients. Jake is the host of the Working Without Pants Podcast, and Leaders of B2B Podcast. He also shares the raw lessons of his entrepreneurial journey at Jake-Jorgovan.com.

Jake is the producer behind podcasts for brands such as Facebook, Siemens Energy, Stampli, and more.

Jake\\u2019s professional focus is to build companies that enable freedom of time and financial profitability. He does that by being an active entrepreneur in the trenches and through training others on entrepreneurship, leadership, sales & marketing.

Jake has degree in entrepreneurship from Belmont University and has been awarded Nashville\\u2019s Youth Entrepreneur of the Year. He has spoken at conferences such as SXSW and has been featured in publications such as Inc & Forbes.

Jake lives a nomadic life and has traveled the world while running multiple companies.

Current location: Barcelona, Spain

Most passionate about

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• I currently run Content Allies, which is a podcast agency.
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• I\'m really passionate about building this business up. Then, personally, on the side, I\'m really passionate about playing with synthesizers.
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• We produce revenue-generating B2B podcasts. That means we work primarily with businesses. These would be companies that are looking to launch a podcast. They tend to be of a decent size.
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Jake\\u2019s career and story

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• I have been in entrepreneurship for about 12 or 13 years now and have been in a video agency for a while. I got really into the event, industry, and music industry early in my career. Then I went off and did freelance digital marketing\\u2014various iterations of digital marketing agencies.
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• Eventually, I decided: Okay, I want to focus at the agency on content. My previous agency wasn\'t lead generation and got heavily disrupted; it kept changing the game.
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• I started Content Allies. We did a bunch of different iterations of content offerings and eventually landed on podcasting as our core service, with a full suite of content marketing.
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• We found that podcasts are growing. There are tons of stats out there, saying that every year podcasts are growing and that more people are listening to them. What is really interesting for B2B companies is that podcasts can become the epicenter of their content strategy.
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• Out of a podcast, we\'ll create videos, we\'ll create articles, we\'ll create social posts, we\'ll create quote blocks, we\'ll create short, social videos, and YouTube videos. We\'ll also often lead that into collaborations with the guests to post content on their site.
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Best advice for entrepreneurs

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• It helps to launch a business in a rising tide, like in a rising wave.
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• We\'re doing the same thing with podcasting right now. It\'s like podcasting is a wave and we\'re riding that. At some point, that will plateau or stabilize and commoditize as any industry does.
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The biggest, most critical failure with customers

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• One of the things that\'s hard about being an entrepreneur is that you have to learn every facet of the business. People deny this early on. I\'m not a finance guy; that\'s how I started. So, I tried to hire out the job of keeping my books to the cheapest person I could, but that meant I didn\'t have visibility into finances.
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• Not knowing at least the basics led to...'