10: The Dollar Drill Down, from Rob Dyrdek, MTV’s Biggest Host! $125K an episode or Royalties?
Trading Secrets
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4.9 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2021
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Rob Dyrdek got his first brand sponsorship at 12 and at the age of 16 dropped out of high school to become a professional skate-border. Did you read that last sentence and wonder what he was paid at 12 for the sponsorship and at 16 to be a pro skater? Me too and Rob tells us everything to the penny! A brilliant business man and savvy individual learned from experience and not the classroom. From a young age, he was negotiating, deal making and leveraging his skillset, sport and fame like no individual I have ever spoken with. We talk all numbers, lessons and strategies with the shows Rob & Big, Fantasy Factory all the way too Ridiculousness. Does Rob take $125K an episode or negotiate a different angle? What would you do? Rob gives us the ultimate dollar drown while providing the ultimate Trading Secret that could change your life and overall happiness!
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a deer media production. |
| 0:15.8 | Welcome back to another episode of Trading Seek. |
| 0:18.9 | Today we are talking with someone I have not only been watching on TV for decades, |
| 0:23.6 | but I have looked up to and admired for just as long. |
| 0:27.0 | From a high school dropout, turned professional skateboarder at 16 years old to TV star, |
| 0:32.3 | producer and serial entrepreneur, and CEO of the most fitting name possible, the deer deck machine. |
| 0:38.9 | The one, the only Rob Deer Deck Rob, I am certain there is no podcast currently published that |
| 0:45.7 | wouldn't love to have you as a guest. So genuinely, thank you for giving us your time and coming on |
| 0:50.6 | to Trading Secrets. Oh, thank you for having me. Sorry about my, you know, I've responded like three |
| 0:55.0 | months later to your DM, you know what I mean? Before I was, before I was able to say like, |
| 1:00.8 | hey, let's make it happen. Sorry about that. Rob, honestly, if you want full transparency, |
| 1:05.2 | we were fully honest there. When you even responded, I was like, pinch, I was telling the boys, |
| 1:09.7 | like, get Rob's coming on. Everyone's like, let's go. We're excited to have you. And |
| 1:14.9 | at first things first, before I even get into your rides to fame, business, entrepreneurial, |
| 1:20.4 | business, savvy, all that, I got to ask you this. I saw that in 2011, on an episode of Fantasy |
| 1:27.8 | Factory, you are an ordained minister and you married your sister. And in July, I have to do |
| 1:34.9 | the same thing for my close friends, John Walter and Michaela Lynn. So I got to tell you, I'm |
| 1:39.7 | getting a little nervous about it. And I watched your episode. I saw it on YouTube. You got any advice |
| 1:44.8 | for me? Anything? Yeah, I mean, look, number one, it was so much more fitting because it was my sister, |
| 1:50.2 | right? It was like so amazing that like, in Make No Mistake, I manipulated that a little bit. |
| 1:56.1 | Like they hadn't, they weren't even engaged. Okay. And I was like, I asked, I was trying to come up |
| 2:03.1 | with television episode ideas and I asked my mom if they've been talking about getting engaged. |
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