FORMER NAVY SEAL, ENTREPRENEUR & BESTSELLING AUTHOR

Brandon Webb is a former US Navy SEAL sniper, Entrepreneur (SOFREP.com & CrateClub.com), and New York Times bestselling author. He is a member of YPO New York City, a former Veteran advisor to the U.S. Small Business Administration, and Harvard Business School OPM 56.

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Air Webb NYC. Best reason you want to fly with me gets a ride with me this spring. Will DM the winner tomorrow. Send it...

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With our team yesterday for our annual meeting. We have leaned out but getting more done with a smaller team because everyone is an A player with alignment. Finally, after 7 years I feel like we have a solid foundation to build from and take the company to the next level. @sofrep.official @officialcrateclub 🚀🚀🚀

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Freedom is the new rich.

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Monday momentum. #laketahoe #entrepreneurlife

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Good to friends in high places. @wingnutwick #pilotlife #igaviation #pilotsofinstagram

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Want to know what it takes to be part of the World’s deadliest sniper program? #thekillingschool #navyseals #sniper

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Flashback Friday. Before I was a sniper in the Teams I was a “new guy” M60 machine gunner. 800 rounds of linked 7.62 minimum load out. All our contact drills were live fire. I think I heard one SEAL platoon expended more rounds in a year than the USMC’s entire yearly allotment. Everyone in the platoon would carry and extra 100 rounds for the machine gunners. The problem was this, when you were low on ammo and yelled, “changing!”, guys would be eager to dump that 100 rounds and shit would start flying your way! It was crazy. Lol. I also remember doing a center peel in a desert gulley and my chief was just behind me and took about 75 rounds of hot brass into his shirt collar!! He had second degree burns from it and was pissed! Wrong place wrong time. I loved that M60...#navyseals #sealtoceo #theredcircle Book.

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I love New York because it doesn’t put up with any bullshit, you have to bring your A game or you’ll end up in a broom closet in Bushwick with 4 roommates. AND the best, is that the city welcomes anyone, from anywhere, no labels. What’s your favorite thing about NYC? #newyork

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Best comment below wins a flight with me! Will DM the winner tomorrow. Allan @greenlit and I getting some over New York in the RV6. #pilotlife #pilotsofinstagram #igaviation

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We are who we hang out with. Surrounding myself with great friends yesterday in New York; @harvardhbs OPM classmates Jaime and Michael. One runs a massive automotive parts and import business out of Ecuador and the other runs a $B VC fund out of Hong Kong. Can you guess who runs what? #hbs #harvardopm #entrepreneurs

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Yak Attack!!! Who wants to fly with me in this Russian Yak 52? #pilot #entrepreneure

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Flashback to one of my New York City flights in my old RV6. Miss that little plane. @vansaircraftinc has the best experimental airplanes on the planet. #pilotlife #newyork

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Incredible to meet with Stephen Ross this morning and get a private tour of his new development at Hudson Yards. Incredible guy and very humble sharing his experience with my YPO group. If you’ve ever taken a photo of the Vessel on Instagram you can thank him for building that $200M attraction. Brilliant. ***Bio: Stephen M. Ross is an American real estate developer, philanthropist, and sports team owner. Ross is the chairman and majority owner of The Related Companies, a global real estate development firm he founded in 1972. Related is best known for developing the Time Warner Center, as well as the Hudson Yards Redevelopment Project. #entrepreneurship #leadership #sealtoceo

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Who wants to go upside down in the TB-30? Video: Diving for loop entry speed, then smooth pull up and over. #igaviation

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WEBB Air, Inc. NYC. #webbair

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Who’s your favorite leader? Me: Churchill is up there, as is Mandela. About last night: Suited up to meet another great leader, General Colin Powell, last night with my YPO chapter. What an amazing man and career. I had a chance to ask him a tough question about American Foreign Policy, and I’ll respect the privacy of the closed door conversation but, can tell you that he was more honest than most I’ve heard. Thanks to @kseikon CEO of @ianriosofficial for the amazing suit! #ceolife #entrepreneurlife #thoughtleader

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LIFE LESSON: In Military jungle training they taught us how to trap Monkey's as a food source (sorry Vegan extremists!). They would dig a hole, put a coconut inside and use sticks forming a circle. Inevitably a monkey would come along, reach inside and grab onto the coconut. When the monkey would attempt to pull it out of the hole, the sticks would prevent that from happening. The monkey could just let the coconut go and run free but wouldn’t. The instructor would come along, look at the monkey, the monkey would look back, while holding tightly onto the coconut ("not letting go of my getting my coconut!"). Then the instructor would whack off the Monkey's head with a machete. Dinner is served in true jungle survival style fashion. What fixed ideas and fears are you holding onto that is your own version of the coconut? And will you let go of your coconut before it's too late? Good to think about. Tag someone that needs to read this. #leadershipquotes #masteringfearbook

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Great to give a Key Note talk on my latest book, Mastering Fear, for the good people at @ISACA. Halifax, Canada is such a fantastic town. The seafood 🦞 last night was unbelievably good (Thanks Peter!) If you haven’t been to Halifax, it’s a short flight from New York and worth the trip! #keynotespeaker #entrepreneur #navyseals

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One of the hacks to success is to know and practice positive mindset and the rule of three (see below). Positive Mindset: I’ve seen this work in training with Navy SEAL snipers, combat, and I’ve seen it do wonders in business. Crisis produces opportunities for those who have the right mindset. No successful person in life has the time to be negative, tear people down or focus on the why of how things can’t be done. The short solution, if you’re a pessimist learn how to become an optimist. Optimists build things and pessimists never get out of their own way to build shit because they are so focused on why something will never work!
Rule of 3 ***1.) Give Back. Mentor someone (@thebunkerlabs is a great example of this for my fellow veterans). We all need a hand up (not a hand “out”). ***2.) Build a Strong Peer group. If you hang out with losers you’re destined to stay a loser and suffer the consequences accordingly. We adapt to our environments, especially social media! So choose your friends and the environments you put yourself in carefully. I’m always amazed how many people don’t get this. It’s why I only follow people I like or aspire to on social media. And why I have an incredible diverse set of friends and, am a member of YPO. Collectively your peer group should hold us accountable and make us a better person. ***3.) The Top 1%. The people at the top are there for reason. Find the top 1% of your chosen profession and do whatever it takes to get inside that circle and learn from them. Never stop learning. Why I went back to school at @harvardhbs and was one of the best investments I could make in myself. Out of my class I am the small fish and it feels good to surround myself with so many successful people and don’t get me started on how good the HBS professors are! Insanely good. (Photo: my keynote speech at the Bunker Labs Gala). #leadership #entrepreneurship #businessquotes

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Another Fear story: It’s nighttime over the Persian Gulf, summer of 1995. The four of us—pilot, copilot, another crewman, and me—have been out in our H-60 Seahawk helicopter doing sonar ops. It’s been a long night, and we need to refuel on a nearby destroyer before heading back to the aircraft carrier we’re calling home.
The pilot slows us down to a crawl as we approach the vessel below. Landing on a destroyer’s deck is always tricky, more so on this moonless night. Someone needs to spot the deck as we hover in place high above the ship and talk the pilot down. Tonight, the spotter, the guy down in the belly of the bird strapped into the gunner’s seat, is me.
I crack open the door and look down, scanning for telltale lights. There aren’t any. I glance up—and see lights. For the span of a single breath, I experience total disorientation: why are there lights up here, at eye level, when the destroyer is way down below us? Then the disorientation vanishes as I look down again and see water, right there at my feet. Persian Gulf water—churning, grinning, reaching up for me, curling around my ankles.
We’re not hovering high above the ship after all.
Our goddam pilot has put us right down in the drink.
Now the seawater is pouring into the cabin, caressing my legs, climbing the interior walls, searching for the engine. Hey, baby. I’m here. Come to papa. This is so not good. If the engine stops, we flip upside down and sink to the bottom of the Gulf.
“Altitude!” I scream into the comms. “Altitude!”
Seized by full-on panic, the pilot freezes. “What’s happening?” he screams. “Oh God, oh God, oh God!” Not what you want to hear from your commander in a moment like this. Fear has paralyzed him, taken him, swallowed him whole.
And because of that, all four of us are going to die, right here, right now.