Ben Mezrich: Author Behind 'The Social Network' Shares Advice The Wolf's Den #143

The Wolf's Den

Jordan Belfort

Society & Culture, Business

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🗓️ 31 January 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Happy 2022! Proud to kick off this year's first episode of "The Wolf's Den," with successful best-selling author Ben Mezrich. Ben is well-known for his non-fiction works, 'Bringing Down The House' and 'The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal'. Those stories were adapted into the hit films "21" and "The Social Network". He has also recently launched his first NFT project, which pioneers a way for authors to include their fanbase in upcoming projects. In this episode, we discuss Ben's catalog of books, writing styles, dos & donts, and what's in-store for him on the digital frontier. Stay tuned!

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0:00.0	Hey, Jordan Belford here, the Wolf of Wall Street. Welcome to the first episode of 2022
0:12.0	in the Wolf's Den. And I have a guest on today, so I have such a massive respect for who
0:17.2	I've wanted to come on the podcast for so long in the stars. Fon your line. He's a literally
0:22.4	world-class author. He's written 20 books, many of them made into world-class movies. So in that
0:30.8	regard, we have a lot in common, and we also kind of launched our crazy at the same time. I'm talking
0:35.0	about Mr. Ben Mesrec. Ben, how are you? I'm great. I'm great. This is awesome to do, so thanks so
0:40.4	much. You are truly a great writer. You really are. Fall better than me. I mean, I write because I
0:48.0	had to write this book because it was like this moment in my life where I was hit bottom,
0:54.3	it was a way for me just to make sense of my life. Amazingly ended up becoming a really popular
1:01.1	book, but you really are a writer. And I want to ask you one important question. Of all the books
1:07.4	that you've written, what's the, there's a lot of them financially related. What have you learned?
1:13.0	What's the one thing that you've learned from all of these books, is you interview all of
1:18.3	these famous people. You've been around, you've written books about the kids from MIT that cracked
1:24.1	the code for cod counting that became movie 21. You wrote, I think it was the accidental
1:30.2	billionaires became social network, right? Then you've recently written Bitcoin billionaires about
1:37.0	the Winkle Vi, Winkle Vosses, there's a Winkle Vi. How is that going? I think it's accepted
1:42.7	Winkle Vi now as part of it. Winkle Vi, okay? I'm up to buy Winkle Vi, okay? And I love the way
1:49.9	it's interesting, the movies have been great from the books that you've written, which is a testament
1:54.5	to the books themselves. But what have you, have you, is it just like when you're writing these
1:59.0	books and doing all the research, is it just more like, you know, you're just writing for
2:03.6	or you're learning things from it yourself that you could take away to your own life?
2:07.5	I mean, I'm definitely learning things, but let me just start by saying one question I get asked
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