C-SUITE SUCCESS
with Tricia Benn
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Get in the room with Aaron Scott Young.
He has structured more than 200,000 American companies.
Thirty-four years building, buying and selling companies of his own — and since 2001, running the firm that has been incorporating and protecting American businesses since 1972. He sees the same expensive mistake in nearly all of them. For one hour, he is going to name it.
Included with your C-SUITE NETWORK™ membership.
The interviewWhat two hundred thousand businesses get wrong.
Most people never get in this room.
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An hour with an executive whose time you would not otherwise get.
Ask your own question
The interview runs, then the floor opens. Your question goes to the guest live.
The full conversation
Only part of this becomes an episode. The rest exists only in the room.
What we’re going to ask him.
You’ve worked with more than two hundred thousand businesses. What goes wrong in the same place every time?
The pattern that is obvious from where he sits and invisible from inside your own company.
Most owners set their structure up once and never touch it again. When does that get expensive?
The question nobody asks until a lawsuit, an audit or a buyer asks it for them.
You teach owners to build a company that works harder for them than they work for it. What has to be true first?
The difference between owning a business and owning a job.
First business at eighteen. What does success look like now that it didn’t then?
This show’s oldest question, and the one most leaders answer carefully. We ask for the real version.
And then we open the floor. Bring one of your own.
Meet your guest
Aaron Scott Young
Chairman & CEO, Laughlin Associates
Laughlin Associates has been incorporating, structuring and protecting American companies
since 1972. Aaron bought it in 2001 and has run it since — the structural partner behind
more than 200,000 businesses, from the country’s largest yacht broker to franchisees,
electrical contractors and medical practices.
He is an operator himself. He started a recycling company in Portland at eighteen, before
recycling was a business, and grew it to five thousand customers before selling; the proceeds
went into one of the city’s first cellular dealerships. Thirty-four years of founding,
buying and selling multi-million-dollar companies since.
Two hundred thousand businesses. He has seen how they get built, how they get sold, and how they come apart.
Businesses structured
200,000+
Building companies
34 years
Featured in
Forbes, Inc., Entrepreneur, Money
Fortune 1000 leadership
20+ years
MDC Partners
$3B holding company
Hero Club members
$50B+ enterprise value
Your host
Tricia Benn
Chief Executive Officer, C-SUITE NETWORK™
Tricia Benn spent two decades inside Fortune 1000 leadership before she started running
rooms of her own. As Global Chief Marketing & Strategy Officer and U.S. Managing
Director of MDC Partners — a three-billion-dollar global holding company — she led
brand and strategy across market research, telecommunications and media, and sat on
multiple boards along the way.
Today she is Chief Executive Officer of the C-SUITE NETWORK™ and
General Manager of the Hero Club, its invitation-only community of CEOs, founders and
investors.
She has sat in the chair her guests sit in. That is why these conversations skip the talking points.
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Part of this conversation becomes an episode of C-Suite Success. Members get the whole of it, live — and the floor opens for questions at the end.
Reserve your seat to join Tricia and Aaron live, hear the conversation as it happens, and bring a question of your own.
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Also on the calendar
Lee Terbosic
Magician, Comedian & Speaker
Thursday, November 19 · 3:00 PM ET · Live on Zoom
Two hundred stages a year, Fortune 500 rooms, and a Houdini escape he recreated a century to the day after the original. Lee Terbosic has built a full-time business out of the one thing every company is fighting for — attention — and we’re going to ask him how it is actually done.
Reserve a seat for this one on the same form.
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Wednesday, September 30. Bring a question.