Hey, what's up, dude?

Hey, what's going on?

We are having a very special guest today, Seth Godin, who got to say I'm pretty excited to talk to.

He's a pretty famous dude.

I think this is going to be the first person, one of the first people I've ever talked to

where I've read at least three of their books.

Yeah, that's a lot. What have you read?

So I read The Icarus Deception. I've read, This is Marketing, which is amazing, and I read

The Dip. What about you?

Cool. I've read, This is marketing. It's the only

Seth Godin book that I read, but he's done a ton. I feel like I've encountered him everywhere.

I subscribe to his newsletter, read his blog for years. I've watched a few of his talks. I think he's

given three TED talks. He's written 20 bestselling books. He's like the modern

day David Ogilvie. He's like the like the most popular marketer of our time. Besides maybe

like Gary Vaynerchuk. The two of them seem to be making the most waves as like famous

internet marketers. Yeah, it's insane. In fact, I think the first viral post that was ever on indie hackers, we used to have a

lot of interviews, founder interviews, but the first non-founder interview that was like huge

on hackers, et cetera, was some guy had Seth on his podcast and then turned that into an

article and was like, if I only had $1,000, I asked Seth Godin, if I only have it, if you only had a thousand dollars, what would you do? He posted at the indie hackers. That shit went ballistic. Yeah, we should, maybe we should do the same thing. It was if you only have a thousand dollars, you don't have your name, nobody knows who you are, what business would you start today? Which I think it's a cool question for somebody who's successful because somebody like Seth is so well known. I mean, if you've given one TED Talk, you're well known. I think he's given three or four TED Talks. Like anything he starts, it's almost like he isn't. Ted X. Yeah, not Ted X. Not like this like bullshit. Like my aunt invited me to this thing to give a talk down the road at my local school, like, really on the main TED stage with like Bill Gates and the audience.

If you're like that, then anything you do, there's kind of an asterisk by it, which is like, can someone learn from what you did?

Because like your name and your existing distribution channels are a huge part of your success.

And so I like that question for somebody like Seth,

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