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My First Million

#224 - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Dyrdek from 0 to $405M in Exits

My First Million

Hubspot

Entrepreneurship, Business, Investing

4.72.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Rob Dyrdek (@robdyrdek), founder & CEO of venture studio Dyrdek Machine, former professional skateboarder, and star of hit shows like Rob & Big and Ridiculousness, joins Sam (@TheSamParr) and Shaan (@ShaanVP) to discuss how he transitioned from acting and athletics to venture capital and how he structures his many business interests. He also talks about how he structures his life to achieve maximum human optimization, why he’s glad he didn’t have TikTok growing up, and much more. Show Notes: * (00:57) Why Ridiculousness is always on MTV * (11:35) How Rob structures his business, money, and time * (16:49) How Rob tracks his time with custom scripts * (26:22) The transition from skater kid to human optimization * (35:40) The value of opening your finances * (44:16) Why Rob is glad he didn’t have TikTok growing up * (58:29) Why Rob is trying to create a “Drake equation” for business Links: * Rob’s Podcast: https://dyrdekmachine.com/build-with-rob

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0:00.0

All right, QuickBag to tell you about another podcast that we're interested in right now.

0:04.4

Hosepot just launched a Shark Tank rewatch podcast called Another Bite.

0:08.9

Every week, the host relived the latest and greatest pitches from Shark Tank, from Squatty

0:13.1

Potty, to the Mention a Bench, to Ring Doorbell, and they break down why these pitches were

0:18.6

winners or losers, and each company's go-to-market strategy, branding, pricing, valuation, everything.

0:24.2

Basically, all the things you want to know about how to survive the tank and scale your

0:28.4

company on your own.

0:29.6

If you want to give it a listen, you can find another bite on whatever podcast that you

0:32.9

listen to, like Apple or Spotify, or whatever you're using right now.

0:36.2

All right, back to the show.

0:38.1

I am human optimization and optimized to be what though?

0:44.4

To just be happy.

0:45.6

All right, sorry we were late.

1:01.0

We were recording another episode.

1:03.0

Yeah, look, I got the context.

1:04.4

I thought it was fascinating.

1:05.4

I loved the idea of your digital media company being acquired and then you have to do a podcast

1:12.2

with the guy who acquired it to no longer works there or no longer CEO's fascinating.

1:17.7

Well, he told the story that was, I think, good, because I think most people don't want

1:22.8

to hear necessarily from, oh, you're the CEO of some marketing companies, some public

1:26.4

companies, not the sexiest story.

1:29.6

He just got an crazy snowball bill accident and broke like every bone in his body and was

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