BiggerPockets – Real Estate, Entrepreneurship, and How to Build an Online Empire

Financial Independence Podcast

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🗓️ 5 September 2016

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Joshua Dorkin, founder and CEO of BiggerPockets.com, joins me on the Financial Independence Podcast to talk real estate and entrepreneurship!

Highlights:

The story of how BiggerPockets got started
The advantages of “scratching your own itch”
Why you should study other verticals and other successful businesses
The incredible power of “fake it ’til you make it”
The right way to build an online empire
How long it actually takes to become successful
Achieving financial independence through real-estate investing

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0:00.0	I'm blind to give you a true finance.
0:05.0	Hey, welcome to the Financial Independence Podcast, the podcast where I get inside the brains of some
0:09.9	of the best and brightest in the personal finance space to find out that they achieved financial
0:13.0	independence.
0:14.0	Before I introduce my guest today, I just want to thank everyone who left a iTunes review.
0:18.0	There's been a lot that have popped up over the last month or so and I really appreciate the feedback so thanks for doing that and I'm
0:25.0	also excited to announce that we're going to be releasing two episodes of the
0:28.6	Financial Independence Podcast per month for the rest of the year so So look out for some new episodes coming
0:33.6	your way soon. On today's show I'm excited to introduce Joshua Dorkin from
0:37.6	BiggerPockets.com. Joshua is the CEO and founder of BiggerPockets
0:41.8	and if you're a real estate investor you know what Bigger Pockets is, but if you're not, it's the go-to place
0:47.0	on the internet for anything Real Estate Investing related.
0:51.5	They have a podcast that's, you know, top in iTunes, they have a blog. They've got
0:57.0	calculators. They've got their own publishing house so that they release all these great books for real estate and investing.
1:03.9	They have just a ton of stuff going on over there.
1:07.3	It's an incredible community with a very active forum and it is pretty much the go-to place for real estate online. a to talk about how you build a business like he's built.
1:24.7	You know, entrepreneurship is something that a lot of people in the audience are wanting to pursue,
1:31.4	and it seems like Joshua did it right he he built up something incredible
1:36.3	slowly over time and now it is what it is today which is an impressive business I
1:42.2	know he has lots of employees and I know he's
1:45.1	helping hundreds of thousands of people with real estate investing in a non-sleezy
1:49.2	way. So it's an incredible thing that he's done and I'm excited to ask him how he did it.
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