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Sup nerds. Join me for conversations with the coolest creatives on the internet. Best-selling authors, massive TikTokers, millionaire memelords, gigabrained founders, and brilliant venture capitalists. We talk about strategies and tactics to build digital worlds and content empires.

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Sup nerds. Join me for conversations with the coolest creatives on the internet. Best-selling authors, massive TikTokers, millionaire memelords, gigabrained founders, and brilliant venture capitalists. We talk about strategies and tactics to build digital worlds and content empires.

    #47: Isaac Medeiros - Selling Swords and Making Millions

    #47: Isaac Medeiros - Selling Swords and Making Millions

    Isaac Medeiros is the founder of Mini Katana, an 8-figure viral sword store. ⁠⁠

    (00:51) Selling swords on TikTok, Meta, and YouTube
    (7:26) Isaac's previous businesses
    (9:12) TikTok sucks, YouTube rocks, Twitter has insane potential
    (13:11) How to build a media team
    (22:22) How to pick a category for your business
    (24:14) Battling burnout and internet addiction
    (31:09) The AI boom makes great authentic content stand out more



    Jason Levin⁠⁠⁠ is a viral marketer and Head of Growth at Product Hunt. Read Jason's weekly advice column on organic social media growth for startups.



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    Past guests of The Jason Levin Show include: Eric Jorgenson, Greg Isenberg, Jack Raines, Paul Millerd, Mike Solana, Danny Miranda, Billy Oppenheimer, Jack Rhysider, Ben Wilson, and more.

    • 36 min
    #46: Alex Cohen - Meme Marketing, Getting Fired, $100M profit or bust

    #46: Alex Cohen - Meme Marketing, Getting Fired, $100M profit or bust

    Alex Cohen is the founder of SaaS spending tracking Spendoso, the Sr. Director of Product at Carbon Health, and an angel investor in 70+ companies. He's also a prolific memelord and meme marketer.


    (01:24) Alex has a real job?

    (6:38) How to handle a co-founder breakup

    (11:23) Bootstrap versus VC-backed

    (18:46) We both got fired as teenagers

    (25:58) How Alex does Meme Marketing

    (36:43) Long form content with long term friends

    (38:07) Elon or Zuck?


    ⁠Jason Levin⁠⁠ is an NYC-based marketing consultant for startups like Product Hunt, Jam.dev, and more. Every week, he shares tactics for organic social media growth for startups in his newsletter ⁠⁠Cyber Patterns⁠⁠ to 15,000+ readers.

    You can follow Jason on: Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Instagram

    Past guests of The Jason Levin Show include: Eric Jorgenson, Greg Isenberg, Jack Raines, Paul Millerd, Mike Solana, Danny Miranda, Billy Oppenheimer, Jack Rhysider, Ben Wilson, and more.

    • 45 min
    #45: Eric Jorgenson - Naval Ravikant, Balaji Srinivasan, and Book Marketing

    #45: Eric Jorgenson - Naval Ravikant, Balaji Srinivasan, and Book Marketing

    Eric Jorgenson is the author of The Almanack of Naval Ravikant, The Anthology of Balaji, and Career Advice of Uniquely Ambitious People (my personal favorite). He's also a VC at Rolling Fund, CEO at Scribe Media, and hosts a podcast called Smart Friends.

    (01:18) Career Advice for Uniquely Ambitious People

    (03:53) Book Marketing Secrets

    (07:00) Boring is Sexy

    (16:30) Memes Make Millions

    (19:00) The New Book Market

    ⁠Jason Levin⁠ is an NYC-based marketing consultant for startups like Product Hunt, Jam.dev, and more. Every week, he shares tactics for organic social media growth for startups in his newsletter ⁠Cyber Patterns⁠ to 15,000+ readers.

    You can follow Jason on: Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Instagram

    Past guests of The Jason Levin Show include: Greg Isenberg, Jack Raines, Paul Millerd, Mike Solana, Danny Miranda, Billy Oppenheimer, Jack Rhysider, Ben Wilson, and more.

    • 26 min
    #44: Greg Isenberg – Community-Based Businesses, Startup Ideas, WeWork

    #44: Greg Isenberg – Community-Based Businesses, Startup Ideas, WeWork

    I talk with my friend and old boss Greg Isenberg about community-based businesses.



    (00:53) Why Community Businesses are Hot as Ever

    (08:02) The Goal Is A Community That Runs Itself

    (10:41) How to Price a Community

    (13:22) How to Find Community Members

    (16:04) What about Physical Communities?

    (18:00) Jason Become a Multipreneur

    (21:55) Greg's Advice on Finding Partners

    (23:52) Greg's Goal-Setting Tactics

    (31:12) Are all Entrepreneurs Gambling Addicts? YES.



    Jason Levin is an NYC-based marketing consultant for startups like Product Hunt, Jam.dev, and more. Every week, he shares tactics for organic social media growth for startups in his newsletter Cyber Patterns to 15,000+ readers.

    • 37 min
    #43: Ellen Fishbein — A Writer's Writer

    #43: Ellen Fishbein — A Writer's Writer

    Ellen is the author of poetry book Spacefaring and the founder of Altamira Studio—which is publishing my first book Memes Make Millions on October 15.

    • 35 min
    #42: Paul Millerd — The Pathless Path

    #42: Paul Millerd — The Pathless Path

    Paul is the author of The Pathless Path. He got his MBA at MIT and was a strategy consultant before leaving it behind to become a freelancer and creator. His book was super influential in helping me leaving corporate America to go down The Pathless Path.



    Jason Levin is the writer behind Cyber Patterns, a newsletter with 7,000+ subscribers focused on content strategy and career hacks for creatives. You can find him insights and memes on ⁠Twitter⁠ and subscribe to Cyber Patterns (www.cyberpatterns.xyz)

    • 38 min

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