$1 Billion in Revenue Inventing Legal Drugs in the 90s | Shaahin Cheyene
Can You Survive This Podcast?
Jeff Apple
4.8 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Shaheen Cheyenne is the guest today. Did I say your name correctly? |
| 0:09.0 | Thank you for pronouncing it correctly. Yeah. Thanks for having me on, dude. |
| 0:11.9 | Yeah, man. Welcome. You have a very cool name, but also a very cool story. |
| 0:18.4 | Arguably, is it true that you arguably created the first neotropic? |
| 0:24.4 | Yeah, look, I think humans have been using neutropics for thousands of years. |
| 0:28.5 | So I don't think there's any argument to the fact that I did not do it. |
| 0:31.7 | But I did invent the first legal alternative to ecstasy back in the 90s, created a billion dollars in revenue, did it |
| 0:40.9 | all as a teenager, and was pretty freaking successful at doing that and creating a movement |
| 0:46.9 | around it. So you did a billion dollars in revenue when you were 15. How do uh, how do you, how do you handle that? |
| 0:56.0 | In my teens, not exactly when I was 15. It's probably a little bit after that, but very, |
| 1:00.2 | very poorly, it turns out. Yeah. When you're young and like me and I dropped out of school |
| 1:09.0 | and I kind of went out looking for my fame and fortune, |
| 1:12.4 | got involved in the electronic music scene, saw that the only people that were making |
| 1:17.3 | money were the drug dealers realized very quickly that I was really bad at crime, and crime |
| 1:22.9 | should not be a direction that I go in, looked for an alternative, came up with this thing, |
| 1:29.3 | and was hugely successful from day one. |
| 1:32.2 | Now, being a teenager and having access to anything that you want is glorious. |
| 1:39.5 | I mean, anybody that tells you being rich and young is not fun, has not done it. |
| 1:44.1 | However, at the same time, |
| 1:46.6 | I was very good in making money and really bad at keeping it, which is where I think probably |
| 1:51.9 | some financial education would have helped back then. But Jeff, I think I'm better for it now. |
| 1:58.1 | Yeah. Okay. What is one of the coolest things you bought back then when you were a teenager and you got |
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