Buddy Media Co-Founder Offers Powerful Video Message About Fear

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• June 7, 2012
• By Alexis Grant
• 5 Comments

Need a little inspiration to get through the rest of the week?

Check out the video below, in which Buddy Media CEO Michael Lazerow talks about how several brushes with death helped him get past fear to do some great things with his life. That includes launching Buddy Media, a social media company that sold to Salesforce.com for $689 million just hours before Lazerow told his story on YouTube.

We first learned of the video from Mashable, which wrote:

The clip is raw and emotional. However, throughout it, Lazerow doesn’t speak a single word. Instead, he tells his own remarkable story and a bit about the acquisition, via a keynote slideshow on his iPad. Lazerow, who has had a life-long heart condition is smiling during most of it, but he’s also clearly wiping away a tear or two as he reacts to some of what he’s sharing.

Here’s the four-minute video:

What do you think about his message?

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