10: Ditching Harvard to Build a Company w/ Momentous’ Matt Wan
Build With Rob
Rob Dyrdek
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🗓️ 24 June 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Matt began thinking about a better supplement brand in high school. Fortunately, his father was both a VC and part owner of the San Francisco 49ers, which gave Matt a unique business POV for a teenager, as well as access to some of the best trainers in the world. Rob invested in the company and helped build an amazing brand, but Matt was wavering on whether to attend Harvard or continue running the company. Matt installed a CEO and went to Cambridge, but two months later found himself back at the helm for good. At 22, he’s still learning as he goes, but having mentors like Rob has helped him continue to push toward success.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Build with Rob. I am Rob Deirdick CEO and founder of the Deirdick Machine, a one-of-a-kind venture creation studio. |
| 0:11.3 | We are a company that creates companies by systematically fusing art, science, and magic through a process we call the machine method. |
| 0:24.5 | The art is the creative vision and the constant shaping and refinement of an idea. The science is the proven methods and time-tested fundamentals |
| 0:31.5 | of business. The magic is the intangible, universal luck that provides an unexplainable push towards |
| 0:39.1 | success. |
| 0:40.3 | Each guest on this show is one of my do-or-dire partners and co-founders. |
| 0:45.3 | This show is an inside look at all the companies that we've created and the lessons we have |
| 0:50.3 | learned along the journey. |
| 0:52.0 | Today we've got Matt Wan, the CEO and founder of Momentus. |
| 0:57.8 | Momentus makes the cleanest, purest, high-end supplements on the market from protein |
| 1:03.1 | powders to elite sleep aids and recently closed a $5 million growth round of financing. |
| 1:09.8 | They have an amazing group of investors from pro athletes to |
| 1:13.3 | elite trainers to even Oscar award winners. Matt is the youngest person I have ever created a company |
| 1:19.9 | with. In fact, he is the only first time founder that I've ever partnered with here at the |
| 1:24.7 | Deer Dick Machine. He is a brilliant young man and a natural-born entrepreneur. |
| 1:30.4 | You know, building a business is deeply complex, and most entrepreneurs come with a little |
| 1:35.3 | bit of experience. |
| 1:36.4 | But Matt, he had to learn everything for the first time as it happened. |
| 1:42.2 | But the biggest decision he faced was whether or not he should go to college or stay and run his company. |
| 1:50.3 | I felt guilty for years about being a bad influence. So let's just see if I can clear my conscience today. |
| 1:57.3 | Matt Juan, welcome to the show, man. How are you? I'm good, man. I'm happy to see you. It's been a while. |
| 2:03.9 | No, I know. I was thinking about it in the drive-in for how much, you know, we used to talk like all week, every week. Then it kind of slowly went to bi-weeklies. Then we went to monthlies. then we went to board meetings, and then in that |
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