Cody Ko On Building A YouTube Empire, Partying With Elon & Stand-Up Comedy

My First Million

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Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Episode 503: Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) sits down with Cody Ko (https://twitter.com/codyko) to talk about building the viral app I’d Cap That, his +$1M YouTube empire & partying with Elon Musk. Looking for episode 502? Check out Shaan’s Reaction to the Linda Yaccarin Interview on YouTube. Want to see more MFM? Subscribe to our YouTube channel here. Want MFM Merch? Check out our store here. Want to see the best clips from MFM? Subscribe to our clips channel here. — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Try Shepherd Out - https://www.supportshepherd.com/ • Shaan's Personal Assistant System - http://shaanpuri.com/remoteassistant • Power Writing Course - https://maven.com/generalist/writing • Small Boy Newsletter - https://smallboy.co/ • Daily Newsletter - https://www.shaanpuri.com/ Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com/ — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (2:00) I’d Cap That hits #1 in the App Store (9:00) App developer to content creator (13:00) 1M views overnight (17:00) How to crush live shows (23:00) Get better at your craft (36:00) Tiny Beat Gang and making music videos (44:00) Frozen S’mores, Shark Tank for Creators, AI Thumbnail app (51:00) Going to Elon Musk’s house party — Links: • Vine - https://vine.co/ • Cody Ko YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/codyko • That’s Cringe - https://tinyurl.com/2adyejay • Cody’s Run Club - https://www.ko-official.com/ • Living with a Seal - https://tinyurl.com/wdjkj2je • Marquis Jetset - https://www.marquisjetset.com/ • Tiny Meat Gang - Keep Ya D*ck Fat (OFFICIAL VIDEO) - https://tinyurl.com/559w6pve • Tiny Meat Gang - Super Xan (OFFICIAL VIDEO) - https://tinyurl.com/57ks7yat • Tiny Meat Gang - Broke B*tch - https://tinyurl.com/pz8jya2p Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more. — Other episodes you might enjoy: • #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits • #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future • #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto • #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett • #218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates • Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More • How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

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0:00.0	What three creators do you see that you think could become billionaires?
0:03.2	Do you say Mr. Beast, Dude Perfect or something like that?
0:05.5	And let me send you.
0:07.0	No way.
0:08.0	Cody, Cody, Cody, Cody, Cody.
0:10.0	Cody is a man who's not being an algorithm has shined upon him.
0:15.0	Cody is one of the biggest YouTubers on the platform.
0:17.0	How did you get going?
0:18.0	Yeah, I got to do in what you do.
0:19.0	If you go and listen to my first episode of my podcast, it was complete garbage.
0:23.0	If I'm thinking about what makes a good podcast, or what makes a good YouTube video, or what makes a good song.
0:29.0	The number one thing you can do is how much are you thinking about like the business side of without being a billionaire?
0:36.0	When I was younger, it was like literally just about the creator.
0:39.0	But now that I'm getting older, it's like, I want the business to succeed.
0:43.0	And then he looks at his phone.
0:44.0	He's like, Elon's been texting me.
0:45.0	And then he showed us his phone.
0:46.0	It was like Elon Musk.
0:47.0	He was like, come over.
0:48.0	No, he was like, should we go over to his house?
0:49.0	Yeah, I mean, you can't really say no to that.
0:51.0	And so he got in cars and drove to his house.
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