#856 "Trust is the New Currency" — Hot Takes from 200 Founders in Mexico City
Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle
Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen
4.9 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Dan and Ian just got back from DC Mexico — 4 days in Mexico City with 200 founders, a third of whom run $1M+ businesses.
Three ideas worth sitting with:
Reading about something is useful. Watching someone implement it is better. Doing it yourself, beside someone else doing it too, is where things get real.
Networking gets a bad reputation — and maybe it deserves it. But sharing a real experience with someone who's solving the same problems you are? That's where trust gets built.
And trust, right now, might be the most valuable thing a founder can have.
In this episode:
• Why reading and podcasts only get you so far
• What made the DC Mexico AI Build Lab different from any workshop they've attended
• The difference between networking and shared experience (and why it matters)
• How the attention economy is shifting — and what's replacing it
• How to get the most out of any room you're in
Thanks to this week's sponsor Wayfront — the AI-ready operating system for productized agencies. One client portal. One team dashboard. All your data, AI-accessible. TMBA listeners get an extra free month on top of the trial at wayfront.com/tmba.
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CHAPTERS:
(00:00:13) We are back
(00:02:40) Mexico City Impressions
(00:05:33) DC Mexico Event Breakdown
(00:07:14) Community Stats And Culture
(00:11:33) Reflection One Get Results
(00:17:07) Reflection Two Trust Economy
(00:23:05) Our sponsor “Wayfront”
(00:24:24) Reflection Three Shared Experience
(00:29:09) Quick Hits AI And Acquisitions
(00:30:43) Optimism And Next Events
(00:32:33) Wrap Up And Sign Off
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Dan Andrews is the co-founder of Dynamite Circle, author of Before the Exit, host of the Tropical MBA podcast, and an entrepreneur who has successfully launched and scaled multiple 7-figure businesses.
Email Dan@tropicalmba.com
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| 0:00.0 | Happy Thursday morning, everybody. Welcome back to the Tropical MBA podcast. We are back. Yeah, buddy. If you run a location independent business, anywhere from 500,000 a year and turn over to 10 million, |
| 0:24.6 | today you're joined by thousands of listeners who are doing the same. |
| 0:28.8 | Find out more about what we do at tropical MBA.com or dynamite circle.com. |
| 0:34.1 | Welcome back to the podcast, boss man. |
| 0:35.5 | How you feeling? |
| 0:36.1 | We're back. |
| 0:37.1 | That's right. Well, first off, today we are going to cover just top 40, boss, man. How you feeling? We're back. That's right. |
| 0:37.7 | Well, first off, today we are going to cover just top 40,000 foot view insights and some |
| 0:43.7 | trends hanging out with 200 listeners of the show in Mexico and kind of give a little |
| 0:50.0 | bit of state of the union as to what's going on here at the podcast. I want to shout out to |
| 0:55.8 | the comedic prowess of the listenership. A lot of funny emails about our brief hiatus. One came in from |
| 1:03.0 | listener Dan. He said, how can we help? I feel like a puppy at the window waiting for dad to come |
| 1:09.0 | home, but he never does. Oh, geez. |
| 1:11.7 | Where's the pot at? |
| 1:13.5 | Is this the end? |
| 1:14.5 | It is not the end, Dan. |
| 1:16.2 | I simply went on a hunger strike until we could get a new sponsor for the show. |
| 1:21.4 | So I want to shout out to the good people at SPP.com. They have recently rebranded to wayfront.com very sexy and they want |
| 1:34.5 | all of you agency owners out there to know about that new brand wayfront.com i know 30% of the |
| 1:40.3 | listeners run services agencies so you got to check out Wayfront.com. |
| 1:45.4 | They're helping us to keep the lights on, boss man. |
| 1:48.0 | And that's not the real reason we left. |
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