261-Getting Rich with Real Estate...and Then Getting Richer With Business! Interview with Josh Dorkin, Founder of Bigger Pockets
Radical Personal Finance
Joshua J. Sheats, MSFS, CFP, CLU, ChFC, CASL, RHU, REBC, CAP
4.4 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2015
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
BiggerPockets.com is the largest real estate resource online--perhaps in the world. Today we have Josh Dorkin, the founder of Bigger Pockets, on the show to share the story with us.
The story is a classic case of an entrepreneurial endeavor gone well.
Sit back, pay attention, and learn the lessons and themes of how one person went from struggling real estate investor to become king of a real estate empire.
Enjoy!
Joshua
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| 0:00.0 | Once upon a time, there was a man named Josh, who was working hard as a high school teacher |
| 0:04.6 | and on the side was working to build a tiny little real estate empire, with a long-term goal of |
| 0:11.6 | getting rich in real estate, but the problem was he was failing and not doing very well. |
| 0:19.0 | So he, little by little, started to reach out to other people and try to build a community of people who could help him to succeed better. |
| 0:25.9 | And he wound up building the biggest real estate community on the planet |
| 0:57.0 | and getting rich in the process? Welcome to the Radical Personal Finance Podcast. My name is Joshua Sheets and I'm your host. Thank you for being with me today. Yes indeed, that is the story that we cover in today's show. It's not my story even though my name is Joshua, but it's my |
| 1:04.8 | guest story. Today we talk with Josh Dorkin. He is the founder of the massive real estate |
| 1:11.5 | empire called Bigger Pockets and today he's going to share the story with us. |
| 1:17.0 | I track Josh down in the hallways at FinCon 2015 because I admired him and admired |
| 1:29.4 | his business and what he and his team have put together and I twisted his arm and he agreed to come on the show for an interview. |
| 1:35.4 | And today I'm thrilled to bring you that interview. |
| 1:37.8 | And I want you to pay careful attention to today's show |
| 1:40.1 | because we're going to share with you some ideas, some around real estate, but a lot around business. |
| 1:46.0 | And I'm not going to tell you what lessons to learn. |
| 1:49.0 | I just ask you to simply pay attention to the lessons and see what you can learn from Josh's story. |
| 1:55.4 | And for those of you who are new listeners to the show, welcome. |
| 1:58.2 | We're glad that you're here. |
| 1:59.5 | I hope you enjoy this and I hope you go on to check out other other episodes. |
| 2:03.3 | But those of you who are consistent listeners of radical personal finance, |
| 2:07.2 | listen to the story of Josh Dorkin and bigger pockets. |
| 2:11.7 | And ask yourself if you do not see the themes that we talk about every day, every |
| 2:18.0 | single day because truly it's a really really fun story. |
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