With Bitcoin, it feels like a lot of the early adoption around that was as a counter to what was happening in the United States economically with the financial crash and fiat currency being used by the government to prop certain people up and not others. And I think when people are struck with a real sense of unfairness, they start to get motivated to take action --- Mike

SHOW NOTES

02:54 - Introduction and how the invisible hand of the market guided my IPO

06:02 - Bitcoin and the unfairness of capitalism 

08:03 - The chaos of the early internet brought people together

13:01 - Are we not going to teach people philosophy? 

17:05 - NFTs are certificates of authenticity for an idea

22:35 - DAOs are online Co-ops

27:00 - Growing up in a town of population 10 

30:16 - Experiencing community after a decade of isolation

33:00 - Deconstructing the military machine

37:31 - Oregon, counter-culture and small businesses vs Walmart

41:49 - Plato and sandwich

43:43 - Daily routine 

46:08 - Leveraging the wisdom of the crowds

49:38 - How to operate in the fringes of technology

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What really makes me pause at this point is not that someone has that unique of a thought process, it's that they've been able to distill it in a really memorable way, like Dawkins memetics. Like the idea of being on your deathbed and having no regrets; that's a very basic concept. I feel like a lot of people throughout history have had that idea, but Jeff Bezos put it into The Regret Minimization Framework and that sticks. -- John Coogan

SHOW NOTES

03:32 - Introduction
04:40 - Big tobacco and the end of cigarettes
07:00 - Society needs Einstein's as well as generalists and those building different knowledge sets
11:10 - From high school rivals to co-founders  
14:17 - Fake it till you make it in silicon valley
18:02 - Distilling complex ideas like Jeff Bezos and Paul Graham
21:30 - I had an empty calendar and read books for weeks in YC
24:57 - America should have a very high customer satisfaction rate
30:17 - At what point did Theranos become a fraud?
35:25 - The main Marxist critique is capitalists are well off than workers
40:16 - We don't have enough founders working on multi-decade problems
43:21 - The second-order effects of building tech infrastructure
45:21 - There's lack of fragmentation in the college education market
51:40 - 3 books that will have a huge impact on civilization 

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I've known Dave for a few months now and It was good to finally have him on the show. We talked about a bunch of stuff ( mentioned in the show notes ) from media in the past to where it's going and everything in between. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did. 

SHOW NOTES

03:19 - Bleacher report became my lifeline when I was stuck in the drudgery of a full-time job

09:14 - Lessons from my failure at Inverse and building Audience Builders from first principles

12:40 - Building distribution networks in legacy media brands

17:47 - Deep work and blocking your calendar like Jerry Seinfeld

23:21 - People who shaped my worldview - Kubrick, Scorsese, Lucas, Jake Lodwick, Kevin Rose

29:00 - Taking advantage of platform growth mechanics while building an original voice 

30:55 - Sam Parr is successful because he is a student of history

34:18 - Building a media empire like Pomp 

37:31 - Self-censorship

41:02 - Great brands create an entire world to build deeper fan experiences

45:12 - The promise of the creator economy

49:30 - Creators will start to look more like media companies and media companies will become more like record labels

52:00 - Bringing novelty into interview podcasts 

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Steal My Marketing is back after a long break of self-reflection and doubt. This conversation with Jonathan was recorded a few months back and has everything that I love about podcasting. It allows this 26-year-old to talk to someone I've never met about things I'm deeply interested in. The world is a fascinating place. It feels good to be back :)

SHOW NOTES

01:30 - The accidental entrepreneur

04:30 - Why I bought a 1-way ticket to China right after college

10:00 - Entrepreneurship in China in 1994

13:19 - Business schools teach you working for companies, not entrepreneurship 

16:57 - How we rebuilt our business after the 2008 financial meltdown

23:10 - The markets are the same, the channels have shifted

25:20 - No country matches China's combination of infrastructure & efficiency

28:43 - The miracle of McDonald's is that fries taste the same in London or Beijing 

39:24 - Untangled Coaching

46:15 - Why American capitalism will always triumph over Chinese capitalism

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Sachit Gupta is THE best super-connector I know. He started with nothing almost 8 years back and has since worked with Tim Ferriss, Seth Godin, and Andrew Warner. His show Conscious Creators reached #1 in entrepreneurship last year and he led the On Deck Podcasting Fellowship. I wanted to bring him on the show to learn his strategies of finding third doors to network with the biggest names in any industry. He shared how he started working with Andrew, told a beautiful story of writing a letter to Tim Ferriss and the exact email he's going to send to Chris Sacca. He's also hosted a ton of poker nights for these influencers and shared his tips on hosting your own poker nights or dinners to increase your network. I also asked him how one could do these on Zoom. And he told us what you should do to connect with someone like Tim or Andrew if they're speaking at a conference. In short, he shared a TON of secrets. 

Here are the show notes :)

05:08 - Cold emailing Mark Cuban, Chris Guillebeau, and Jonathan Fields

09:00 - How I’ll email Chris Sacca and lessons from 1000s of cold emails

14:18 - Standing out in the crowd of 100s of people trying to get attention from your heroes

19:34 - What I learned from Seth Godin, Tim Ferriss, and Andrew warner

22:12 - One starts to build an audience when one gives up the need to build an audience

23:55 - Conversations that are casual and intimate are functions of production, not editing.

27:27 - A cold outreach strategy that will change your life

32:10 - How to connect with your heroes hosting poker nights/dinners

36:44 - Writing a letter Tim Ferriss and a hack to connect with speakers in conferences

43:55 - How to reach out to big publications for collaborations

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Danny Miranda is an inspiration and the host of the Danny Miranda podcast. He's gone from 0 to 55,000 downloads in the past 6 months, published 87 awesome conversations, and has shared countless stories of his hustle on Twitter. This conversation goes beyond what Danny has done with his podcast and captures his overall personality, his habits, and his worldview. He's done a lot in 6 months, but I cannot imagine the places he'll go in 6 years and beyond. Hope you can learn from him as much as I did. 

Here are the show notes :)

02:14 - Getting a reply from Mark Cuban

03:32 - Tyler Cowen and my heavy focus on research

06:39 - 75 hard and how I started thinking long term

08:38 - Making friends on the internet is a superpower

09:46 - The role of my parents in my success

10:30 - Gary vee, Kanye West, and Rick Ross

11:50 - Failing in public and Shooting your shots

13:12 - Spotting trends and people early

14:09 - Consistency and my relationship with my audience

15:02 - Setting internal goals

16:39 - Podcasts are you reviewing a person

18:11 - I studied Larry king and Tim Ferriss to learn the skill of interviewing

19:25 - The radical Shopify course I made

21:05 - Happiness comes from struggle

23:11 - I'd love someone to help me with video clips

23:48 - Meditation is letting thoughts go through me

24:32 - My first million YouTube game

25:22 - Having phone calls with my 8k followers

28:39 - Sharing your authentic journey online

31:15 - 3 guests I'd love to interview in stadiums

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This conversation is led by Bleacher Report founder Dave Nemetz, featuring Polina Marinova (The Profile Dossier), Jonathan Hunt (Complex), and Brian Morrissey (Digiday Media). The lessons compressed in this conversation are wide-ranging and if there's anything you need to learn about content-led growth, this is it. It was originally held on Clubhouse for Dave's awesome show, The Audience Builders, and I reached out to him requesting to post this on Steal My Marketing 2 days back. And BOOM. Enjoy the conversation :)

And btw, I spent last night reading through some of the best essays I've read in a while on Dave's blog. Tons of material on the early days of Bleacher Report. Check it out - (https://davenemetz.com/essays)

Here are the show notes :)

02:17 - How I scaled The Profile Dossier to tens of thousands of subscribers

08:51 - Convincing Morning Brew newsletter with 2.5 million subscribers to collaborate with me

10:44 - Complex: the convergence of culture and how we built a business around it

16:15 - Going full time with your creative projects and the systematic bias toward strong networks

20:44 - Substack severely lacks creator tools and how to improve it

27:16 - Retaining talent in the media space after they become stars

29:18 - Paid podcasts marketplaces in China and funding creators like startups

36:12 - Every couple of years, someone proclaims that websites are dead. They’re not.

40:35 - Why publishing everything at midnight gives Digiday a leverage

44:17 - Creating evergreen content and the power of long-tail

47:07 - Evergreen Profiles by Polina: Elon Musk and Charlie Munger

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Brian Morrissey (https://twitter.com/bmorrissey)