Body Scans, Grant Cardone, and How Sam Enraged Goldman Sachs
About This Episode
Sam and Shaan analyze the business of Grant Cardone and the unexpected profitability of N2 Publishing's neighborhood magazines. They explore the importance of co-founder alignment through specific "pre-marriage" style questions and discuss the evolution of creator monetization via platform-led ad networks.
Episode Description
Show Notes
- 01:00- Flying coach
- 09:45- Grant Cardone
- 19:00- Sam's new business + aligning values
- 30:30- N2 Publishing/Stroll Mag
- 39:15- ConvertKit
- 45:30- How Sam enraged Goldman Sachs
- 47:55- Life Hack: Family traditions
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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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- Additional episodes you might enjoy:
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- #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
Links
- * StrollMag
- * Axios article
- * Flashes and Flames
- * ConvertKit
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Key Takeaways
Conduct a 'Partnership Pre-Mortem' by having co-founders separately define success, timelines, and ethical boundaries to ensure long-term alignment.
Identify 'unscalable' yet profitable business models like N2 Publishing that leverage print media in high-end neighborhoods to capture local advertising dollars.
Evaluate the trade-offs of building an internal ad sales team versus using third-party networks like ConvertKit's, which offers a 15% fee to handle the overhead of selling placements.
Business Ideas Mentioned
Niche Professional Print Magazines
Content & Media
Neighborhood Newsletter Franchise Model
Content & Media