The future belongs to those who learn new skills and combine them creatively.

4th Annual Main Street Over Wall Street event is SOLD OUT. Future = main street.

Harsh truth:

You will be richer when you understand leverage.

Here’s what the rich don’t tell you about “good debt” vs “bad debt”:

Wall Street has one rule:

Never start what you can buy.

Here’s everything you need to know about buying a biz in 2025 (full guide):

I just heard an acquisition story that made my heart melt.

Meet Cody:

• 6-year veteran
• #2 at a production company in California
• Runs the show while his boss lives in Utah

Here’s how he went from employee to owner of a biz in 90 days:

One of the most underrated things you can do:

Buy unwanted land.

I spent $22,607 on 1 acre of dirt and turned it into a glamping site.

Here’s how I did it (and why):

Only 6% of Americans own a business.

And of that, less than 1% ever hit $1,000,000 in revenue.

After investing in businesses for 15 years, here are three reasons why 99% of businesses never scale past 7-figures:

I just sat down with one of Shark Tank’s most successful investors…

He turned $40 into a $6 billion fashion empire with FUBU, multi NYT bestseller, emmy winner, and so much more.

Here are 7 lessons from Daymond John about building a business that every owner should hear:

The difference between a $1M business and a $100M business:

Hiring operators.

After years of making the right & wrong decisions, here's the exact process we now use to find killer operators:

I asked a former Secret Service agent her secrets to reading people.

7 lessons from Evy Poumpouras on manipulation, lie detection, and influence:

These 7 people combined are worth $1.54 trillion.

Here's the actual billionaire wealth building playbook nobody talks about:

Harsh truth:

You are paid in proportion to size of the problems you solve.

Here’s why becoming an owner is a fast-track to solving bigger problems (and building wealth):

Not all cash flow is created equal:

• Free Cash Flow
• Operating Cash Flow
• Financing Cash Flow
• Investing Cash Flow

Here’s everything you need to know about these 4 metrics that run every business:

You don’t need an MBA or tons of money to start a business.

I recently had Chris Koerner on the pod and he showed me three regular 6-figure side hustles anyone can start THIS weekend.

Here they are (with real examples):

You want to get rich... build relationships with people in finance.

They understand the game of money.

7 acquisition terms you should know to speak their language:

The longer something has been successful, the more likely it is to continue being successful.

Here are 12 businesses with historically low failure rates (backed by data):

One failure I wouldn’t trade for a success:

Losing $50,000 buying my first business.

Here are 10 lessons on deal-making that I learned the hard way (so you don’t have to):

How the rich get richer:

Buy profitable businesses.

Here’s how you can steal their playbook and buy a cash-flowing biz without their millions:

The best founders do one thing brilliantly…

Build systems.

It sounds easy. It’s not.

Here’s how we think about building systems for our portfolio of 30+ businesses:

I love this quote from Marc Andreessen:

“If you know what you want, and you go for it with maximum energy, the world will often reconfigure itself around you much more quickly than you would think.”

5 cheap ridiculous things we did in the early days that oddly 10’xd our biz:

By 2030:

• $5,000,000,000,000 will change hands
• 2,300,000 biz's will be passed down
• 24,700,000 jobs are at stake

The greatest opportunity of the decade isn’t building something new... It's this:

The richest business owners I know all have one thing in common:

They built their business to sell it from Day 1.

Here are the 14 ingredients that turn any business into an asset someone will gladly pay millions for:

I recently turned 39.

Here are 39 brutal truths I wish I knew at 20:

I’m obsessed with laundromats.

I've made more money from dirty laundry than most finance bros make on Wall Street.

Here’s the playbook I always use to find profitable laundromats:

America was designed to keep us broke.

The worst part? Most don't realize it's happening.

Here's the 400-year-old script that is programmed to keep people poor:

I’m 38.

Here are 17 lessons from 17 years in business I wish I knew at 21:

Harsh truth on scaling businesses:

Your goal as CEO is to build a team that runs your entire company better than you.

5 other lessons I’ve learned the hard way from 15+ years of being an owner:

It’s never been easier to start a business but it’s never been harder to sell one.

Here’s how we’re making it stupid simple to sell your biz in 2025 (with BizScout 2.0):

Imagine making a joint income of $246k but losing money every month…

That’s this MIT-educated engineer’s reality:

This might be one of my favorite podcasts I’ve ever done.

Robert Greene’s "48 Laws of Power" changed how I think about human behavior, and our recent chat added rocket fuel to that fire.

Steal his 8 lessons on power, influence, and getting what you want in life:

The best founders do one thing brilliantly...

Hire.

It sounds easy. It’s not.

Here’s how we think about hiring for our portfolio companies:

Meet Joe Lonsdale.

He’s the founder of Palantir, 8VC, and over a dozen other companies.

Last year, I had him on the pod and asked him about building, investing, and the future of the U.S. economy.

Here’s what he told me:

The smartest youth are losing faith in traditional education.

And I don’t blame them.

Here’s why MBAs are rapidly declining in value:

(*and a breakdown of the “DOJO” model that’s replacing $100k+ degrees)

Meet Taylor Sheridan.

15 years ago, he was sleeping in a tent and got rejected by every production company.

Today, he owns a $500M empire and charges Paramount to film on his ranch.

Here’s his story (and what you can learn from it):

This is the ONE strategy that’s made:

• Warren Buffett one of the greatest investors of all time
• Amazon a trillion-dollar company
• Zuckerberg a billionaire

Any person who doesn’t know this model is missing out.

Here’s how it works:

How to stay poor:

1. Never take risk.
2. Take risks you don’t understand.

Here’s how to minimize your risk when buying your first business:

I just heard an acquisition story that made my heart melt.

Meet Sally:
- $3M in cash
- Clear parameters
- Spent 3 years searching for the right biz

Here’s how BizScout helped Sally find her dream biz in days after years of getting burned:

If you own a business and don't have a newsletter, you're missing out on your biggest revenue stream by far.

After sending 15M+ emails this year, here's why newsletters are still wildly underrated in 2025:

Buying boring businesses is a fast-track to positive cash flow.

BUT, it’s virtually impossible to find the RIGHT ones.

Here’s how we made it stupid simple for anybody to buy or sell a biz in 2025 (BizScout 2.0):

Everyone's either excited about AI or thinks it'll steal their job.

I used to be on the fence.

Then I hired a full-time employee just to integrate AI into everything we do.

5 tools that made me 3x more productive in 6 months:

The fastest way to build a memorable brand is to pick a fight.

Here's a simple framework to define your enemy and build a magnetic business (The 3 Vs):

Every week, we do live deal reviews in our business buying community.

And recently, we dissected a $2.6M offer for an accounting firm.

Here’s the breakdown (and how we determined whether it was a winner or a loser):

Saw this on Reddit and had to share my 2 cents.

This person is asking all the RIGHT questions about buying their first business.

Here’s what I’d tell them if they were sitting in front of me:

If you follow where rich people put their money, you’ll never go broke.

Here's the unsexy asset class private equity billionaires & millionaires are flocking to:

I recently had the most eye-opening conversation with Amjad Masad, the CEO who took Replit from near-death to $100M ARR in 6 months.

7 takeaways from our chat on talent wars, vibe coding, and AI myths:

Why you never get what you want...

• You don’t ask.
• You don’t make it a win-win.
• You don’t know when to walk away.

Here's how to avoid these negotiation mistakes (& get the deal you deserve):

Everyone thinks the paths to wealth are:

Building a startup. Going into finance. Investing in real estate. Inheriting it.

I think there's a better way...

Here’s what it is (and why I’m investing millions into it):

This guy’s one of the most well-known faces on earth, multi NYT best-seller, and has built many $100M+ businesses.

Fascinating person to talk to.

Here are 7 brutally honest truths on wealth, success, and media leverage from my recent chat with Gary Vee:

I just spent 2 hours with a guy who sold multiple AI companies for $400M and built AI systems for the Pentagon.

He broke down AI's current influence and future dangers in ways I'd never heard before.

Here are the 8 most important things he told me:

The smartest youth are not interested in employment at Goldman or Google.

They want ownership.

Here’s why MBA graduates are choosing acquisitions over startups:

The world doesn't reward people who have ideas.

It rewards those who make ideas happen.

Here’s why the next decade belongs to the executors, not the idea people: