#846 Can Your Business Beat the S&P 500?
Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle
Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen
4.9 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Dan and Ian hop on the mic to talk about spending money to make more money in your business, getting financial assistance with AI, how to decide where you should live and work in 2026, and agentic AI use cases.
Meet lifestyle founders in Mexico this May
Hang out exclusively with 7+ figure founders in DC BLACK
Bento will beat your current email bill — up to 70% off or $300 in credits
Live Well on Less Than You Think by Fred Brock
“The End of the Office” by Andrew Yang
“How to replace your bookkeeper with AI” by Dan Norris
CHAPTERS
(00:00:00) What Founders Are Talking About in Mexico This May
(00:03:45) How to Spend Money to Make Money in Your Business
(00:08:12) Using AI to Help You With Financials
(00:19:16) How to Decide Where to Live and Work Remotely in 2026
(00:30:42) What’s New With Agentic AI
CONNECT:
Dan@tropicalmba.com
Ian@tropicalmba.com
Past guests on TMBA include Cal Newport, David Heinemeier Hannson, Seth Godin, Ricardo Semler, Noah Kagan, Rob Walling, Jay Clouse, Einar Vollset, Sam Dogan, Gino Wickam, James Clear, Jodie Cook, Mark Webster, Steph Smith, Taylor Pearson, Justin Tan, Matt Gartland, Ayman Al-Abdullah, Lucy Bella.
PLAYLIST:
How to Build a 6-Figure Digital Business with Claude Code
4 Ways to Start a Business From Scratch in 2026
Financial Traps & Profit Truths
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | At the top here, I wanted to shout out our sponsor, Bento. |
| 0:17.0 | So many TNBA listeners are using Bento because it's a solid no BS email and automation platform |
| 0:23.8 | built for how founders are actually running businesses in the AI era. If you're already sending |
| 0:29.0 | real volume of email and want something simpler and more effective, check them out at bentonow.com |
| 0:35.7 | slash TMBA. Happy slash TMBA. |
| 0:39.1 | Happy Thursday morning, everybody. |
| 0:40.9 | Welcome back to the Tropical MBA podcast. |
| 0:44.3 | This is a show where we talk about putting a business where you can control your wealth, |
| 0:50.2 | your location, and your time, aka multiple currencies, not to be confused with. |
| 0:52.2 | What's that great R.E.M. song. |
| 0:53.0 | Strange currencies. |
| 0:53.7 | Strange currencies. |
| 0:55.4 | It's pretty strange, actually. Some of some of it strange welcome back to the podcast my co-hostess with the mosis ian how you doing yo i'm doing |
| 1:01.4 | great can you hear me okay is my microphone set up i get this new yeah you got a new set up i got a new |
| 1:06.7 | serious piece of a hardware here it's routing everything with specific power ports |
| 1:12.1 | and it's got blinking lights |
| 1:13.3 | and stuff. |
| 1:14.1 | All because Apple refuses |
| 1:16.4 | to put an extra port or two |
| 1:17.8 | on their computers. |
| 1:19.3 | We can have |
| 1:20.0 | satellites in space |
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