Austin Rief: Building & Selling The Morning Brew For Millions In 5 Years, Side Hustle Ideas, & More
Episode 398: Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) talk to Morning Brew CEO Austin Rief (@austin_rief) about building, growing and selling a newsletter valued at $75M in 5 years, discussing the question are newsletters still worth doing, and a few good side hustle ideas to start now.
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Show Notes:
(01:00) - Morning Brew origin story
(19:10) - ad sales
(24:10) - Austin's strengths
(32:15) - Austin's upbringing
(42:55) - what did you do with your new found wealth?
(45:55) - ideas brainstorm
(01:13:14) - future plans
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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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