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Episode 499: Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) talks to Brett Adcock (https://twitter.com/adcock_brett) about how he nearly went bankrupt after his +$100m exit from Vettery (now Hired). How? Betting everything on the next big idea. And he’s doing it again today with Figure.ai, a robotics company bringing a general purpose humanoid to life.

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• Try Shepherd Out - https://www.supportshepherd.com/
• Shaan's Personal Assistant System - http://shaanpuri.com/remoteassistant
• Power Writing Course - https://maven.com/generalist/writing
• Small Boy Newsletter - https://smallboy.co/
• Daily Newsletter - https://www.shaanpuri.com/

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• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/
• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/
• Copy That - https://copythat.com/
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Intro
(2:00) How Brett self-funded Archer Aviation
(13:00) Nearly going personally bankrupt
(19:00) Street of Walls and being a self-taught finance expert
(24:00) How to choose the right idea to work on
(28:00) Why Future could be the biggest business in the world
(32:00) Addressing objections to a robot workforce
(35:00) Why hardware is actually easier than software
(40:00) How big is Figure going to be in 5 years?
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Links:
• Brett Adcock’s website - https://www.brettadcock.com/
• Figure (AI Robotics) - https://www.figure.ai/
• Archer Aviation - https://www.archer.com/
• Vettery (now Hired) - https://hired.com/
• Ikagai - https://tinyurl.com/3x9mytpb
• Street of Walls - https://www.streetofwalls.com/
• The Fast Track: https://tinyurl.com/yeyz7j7p


Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more.

Other episodes you might enjoy:
• #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits
• #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future
• #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto
• #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett
• ​​​​#218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates
• Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More
• How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

Episode 498: Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) talk about the coolest stuff they’ve seen this week—like why Nancy Pelosi may be out-investing Warren Buffet and how Cultural Tutor is winning Twitter by taking it more seriously than everybody else. 

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:
• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/
• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/
• Copy That - https://copythat.com/

Check Out Shaan's Stuff:
• Try Shepherd Out - https://www.supportshepherd.com/
• Shaan's Personal Assistant System - http://shaanpuri.com/remoteassistant
• Power Writing Course - https://maven.com/generalist/writing
• Small Boy Newsletter - https://smallboy.co/
• Daily Newsletter - https://www.shaanpuri.com/
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Intro
(2:00) Bill Gurley exposes the grift of regulation
(7:00) Deion Sanders on “60 Minutes” 
(14:00) CFO Secrets on negotiating like an M&A master
(21:00) The Cultural Tutor’s obsession with writing one tweet
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Links:
• Bill Gurley's All-In Talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9cO3-MLHOM
• Autopilot: https://www.joinautopilot.com/
• Deion Sanders “60 Minutes” interview - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8PSWeRLGXs
• Deion Sanders Jr’s YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_n7zvkh3y3PLBIUA1lHkjw
• The Score Takes Care of Itself - https://tinyurl.com/jtspe367
• CFO Secrets - "Uncovering The Mystery of Working Capital in M&A" - https://www.cfosecrets.io/p/working-capital-adjustment-peg-m-a
• The Cultural Tutor on David Perell - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pBxikHRCXI
• The Cultural Tutor twitter - https://twitter.com/culturaltutor
• Vacation Sunscreen - https://www.vacation.inc/
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Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more.
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Other episodes you might enjoy:
• #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits
• #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future
• #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto
• #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett
• ​​​​#218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates
• Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More
• How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

Episode 497: Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) share 4 businesses that are crushing it — from airport security to Etsy store-owner’s favorite machine to well-branded women’s products. Plus, Shaan shares a dating app idea that‘s thoroughly OP.

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1) MFM Merch - https://store.mfmpod.com/
2) MFM Clips Channel - https://www.youtube.com/@ClipMFM
3) MFM Poker Tournament - www.cloudpokernight.com/mfm

Check Out Shaan's Stuff:
• Try Shepherd Out - https://www.supportshepherd.com
• Shaan's Personal Assistant System - http://shaanpuri.com/remoteassistant
• Power Writing Course - https://maven.com/generalist/writing
• Small Boy Newsletter - https://smallboy.co
• Daily Newsletter - https://www.shaanpuri.com

Check Out Sam's Stuff:
• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com
• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co
• Copy That - https://copythat.com
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Intro
(0:30) Surprise 1: Merch!
(5:05) Surprise 2: New YouTube Clips Channel!
(8:15) Business breakdown 1: Clear ($3b)
(19:33) Business breakdown 2: Cricut
(25:20) The real story behind Native Deodorant
(29:20) Business breakdown 3: Aunt Flow
(32:52) iCracked
(38:00) Business breakdown 5: Cloud Poker Night
(45:30) Products that grow virally (not word-of-mouth)
(47:20) Gamer Dating App
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Links:
• MFM Merch - https://store.mfmpod.com/
• MFM Clips Channel - https://www.youtube.com/@ClipMFM
• Clear - https://www.clearme.com/
• Cricut - https://cricut.com/en-us/
• Etsy - https://www.etsy.com/
• Native Deodorant - https://www.nativecos.com/
• Aunt Flow - https://goauntflow.com/
• iCracked - https://www.youtube.com/c/icracked
• Cloud Poker Night - https://cloudpokernight.com/
• Dil Mill - https://dilmil.co/
• Evolv - https://www.evolvtechnology.com/
• Farmers Only - https://www.farmersonly.com/
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Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more.
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Other episodes you might enjoy:
• #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits
• #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future
• #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto
• #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett
• ​​​​#218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates
• Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More
• How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

Episode 496: Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) talk with John Coogan (https://twitter.com/johncoogan), co-Founder of Soylent & Lucy and EIR at Founders Fund. John shares the most underrated creator-business no ones talking about, what Peter Theil and Keith Rabois are like, why he thinks lifestyle businesses are worthless and much more.

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:
• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/
• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/
• Copy That - https://copythat.com/

Check Out Shaan's Stuff:
• Try Shepherd Out - https://www.supportshepherd.com/
• Shaan's Personal Assistant System - http://shaanpuri.com/remoteassistant
• Power Writing Course - https://maven.com/generalist/writing
• Small Boy Newsletter - https://smallboy.co/
• Daily Newsletter - https://www.shaanpuri.com/

Other Cool Stuff:
• MFM Clips Channel - https://www.youtube.com/@ClipMFM
• MFM Merch - https://store.mfmpod.com/
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Intro
(3:15) Soylent origin story
(14:50) Lucy background
(17:00) Business Idea 1: Creator-owned VPN
(23:20) Business Idea 2: Ammunition Rollup
(28:45) How often does Sam think of the Roman Empire?
(32:20) Thoughts on Keith Rabois
(34:40) Best Twitter follows
(36:15) Debate: Lifestyle businesses vs. VC-backed
(48:15) Who John’s voting for
(51:00) Why AI wrappers are great businesses
(53:30) Business Idea 3: Lensa for ChatGPT
(57:40) Scam artist telemarketing
(1:04:05) Closing thoughts
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Links:
• John Coogan Twitter - https://twitter.com/johncoogan
• John Coogan Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/johncooganplus
• Soylent - https://soylent.com/
• Lucy Gum - https://lucy.co/
• Sam's Soylent article - https://tinyurl.com/mu8yhbyv
• Linus Tech Tips - https://www.youtube.com/user/linustechtips
• Anduril - https://www.anduril.com/
• Founders Fund - https://foundersfund.com/
• Keith Rabois - https://twitter.com/rabois
• Sean Parker - https://twitter.com/sparker
• Ligma Johnson - https://tinyurl.com/yx598zcc
• Peter Thiel - https://twitter.com/peterthiel
• Will Hurd - https://twitter.com/WillHurd
• Lensa - https://prisma-ai.com/lensa
• Power Law with John Coogan - https://tinyurl.com/3fdz6axs

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Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more.
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Other episodes you might enjoy:
• #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits
• #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future
• #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto
• #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett
• ​​​​#218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates
• Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More
• How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

Episode 495: Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) talk with Kevin Ryan, Founder and CEO of AlleyCorp, an incubator and venture capital fund behind Business Insider, MongoDB, GILT and Zola among others. Kevin shares how he runs his +$20B venture studio AlleyCorp, why Buzzfeed ultimately failed, how he launches 8 companies a year and much more.

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:
• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/
• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/
• Copy That - https://copythat.com/

Check Out Shaan's Stuff:
• Try Shepherd Out - https://www.supportshepherd.com/
• Shaan's Personal Assistant System - http://shaanpuri.com/remoteassistant
• Power Writing Course - https://maven.com/generalist/writing
• Small Boy Newsletter - https://smallboy.co/
• Daily Newsletter - https://www.shaanpuri.com/
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Intro
(3:15) Selling DoubleClick to Google for ~$3B
(5:20) Starting Business Insider, MongoDB and Gilt
(11:00) What led Kevin to start Business Insider
(15:00) Why Kevin hired Henry Blodget to run Business Insider
(16:45) What did Buzzfeed get wrong?
(18:45) Why has AlleyCorp been such a success compared to other venture studios?  
(29:20) What businesses Kevin’s excited about right now
(39:00) Thoughts on buy vs. build vs. bootstrap
(41:00) What business has been the easiest and most profitable?
(42:50) Thoughts on AI
(44:50) Launching 8 companies a year
(47:40) Why Kevin isn’t on social media
(50:20) Starting companies in the recruiting space
(54:20) The benefit of being emotionally stable
(56:20) Kevin’s investment portfolio
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Links:
• Kevin’s Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinryan3/
• AlleyCorp - https://alleycorp.com/
• Business Insider - https://www.businessinsider.com/
• Henry Blodget - https://twitter.com/hblodget
• MongoDB - https://www.mongodb.com/
• Gilt - https://www.gilt.com/
• The Ladders - https://www.theladders.com/
• RippleMatch - https://ripplematch.com/

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Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more.
—
Other episodes you might enjoy:
• #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits
• #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future
• #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto
• #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett
• ​​​​#218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates
• Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More
• How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

Episode 495: Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) talk with Derek from More Plates More Dates (https://www.youtube.com/@MorePlatesMoreDates) about his origin story, +$100M business empire, investment portfolio, his thoughts on Bryan Johnson, how he sources his food and much more.

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:
• Try Shepherd Out - https://www.supportshepherd.com/
• Shaan's Personal Assistant System - http://shaanpuri.com/remoteassistant
• Power Writing Course - https://maven.com/generalist/writing
• Small Boy Newsletter - https://smallboy.co/
• Daily Newsletter - https://www.shaanpuri.com/

Check Out Sam's Stuff:
• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/
• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/
• Copy That - https://copythat.com/
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Intro
(7:15) Why Pickup artists are often great entrepreneurs
(12:50) Derek’s business empire
(21:30) Degrees of difficulty with Derek’s businesses
(28:00) What are Derek’s business goals?
(39:25) Derek’s investment portfolio
(43:45) The origin story of More Plates More Dates
(52:00) How Derek became a health science expert
(54:20) Thoughts on Bryan Johnson
(1:00:25) Taking TRT and other supplements
(1:06:15) Where Derek buys his food
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Links:
• More Plates More Dates Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/c/MorePlatesMoreDates
• Derek's Twitter - https://twitter.com/Derek_Fitness
• Gorilla Mind - https://gorillamind.com/
• Marek Health - https://marekhealth.com/
• Intelligent Elephant - https://intelligent.shop/
• Good Looking Loser - https://www.goodlookingloser.com/
• Chris's Twitter - https://twitter.com/goodlookinglosr

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Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more.
—
Other episodes you might enjoy:
• #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits
• #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future
• #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto
• #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett
• ​​​​#218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates
• Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More
• How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More