From $0 to Billionaire By Starting A Toy Factory In China - Bill…
About This Episode
Shaan and Sam break down the success of Nick Mowbray, who turned a $13,000 loan into the billion-dollar toy empire Zuru by leveraging automated manufacturing in China. They also explore audience growth strategies used by political commentators and anonymous info-product creators, alongside a deep dive into Sam's potential move to New York and the financial trade-offs of high-tax cities.
Episode Description
Show Notes
- 01:30- Billy of the Week: Nick Mowbray
- 14:40- Breaking Points and Independent Media
- 21:05- How to build an audience — do cool stuff & be ok at talking about it
- 31:20- STRONGLAND Publishing and how to make millions on gumroad
- 44:25- Dream Studio Course
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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:
- #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
Links
- * Nick Mowbray Twitter
- * ZURU
- * Breaking Points
- * STRONGLAND publishing
- * Harsh Strongman
- * Dream Studio Course
- * Ghost Town Living
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Key Takeaways
To grow a niche audience quickly, provide a specific 'service' to the top 1% of influencers in that space, such as transcribing their clips or creating data visualizations, to earn their endorsement.
Utilize a 'bullets before cannonballs' approach by testing multiple small product ideas or content formats to see what resonates before committing significant capital to a single direction.
When designing high-converting landing pages for digital products, focus on 'transformation' by using before-and-after visuals and headlines that sell the dream outcome rather than just features.