Dan Caldwell.TapouT Founder on Dana White, Politics, and UFC Early Days. Episode 353 with The Real Brad Lea (TRBL)
Dropping Bombs
Brad Lea
4.9 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2021
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
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Dan Caldwell, along with Charles Lewis and Tim Katz, founded TapouT, a clothing company aimed toward athletes and mixed martial arts (MMA) enthusiasts, in Grand Terrace, California in 1997, and became CEO of the company. TapouT started out of the back of a car selling t-shirts at the underground MMA competitions and classes. Today, Dan continues his entrepreneurship journey as a husband, father, and successful businessman.
In this episode, Dan and Brad uncover Dan's awesome stories from his time with TapouT as well as stories today that have impacted his life from police officer to multi-millionaire- this is Dan's story!
00:00 Intro
00:40 What was TAP OUT
04:14 Bomb 1: $10M people watching
08:40 The UFC starting
11:00 What was the vision?
14:40 The truest story from Dan!
18:00 Dan's rifle knife invention
24:00 What money can do first time you get it
25:00 Bomb 2: The best feeling in the world is helping your people when you can
27:07 Check out Dan's podcast "Pretty and Punk Podcast"
28:40: "Us entrepreneur's are always thinking about what is next." - Dan Caldwell
30:40: Shout out to Andy Frisella
34:55 Election woes
36:20 The coolest story from Dan
42:03 Why entrepreneurs will save the world
48:35 What Brad would say to Elon Musk
50:15 How many businesses does Dan have?
51:20 "Billionaire Collectibles"
55:40 If you have memorabilia, reach out to Dan
57:04 Shout out to Grant Cardone
01:02:06 Bomb 3: Grateful for all experiences
01:04:55 TapouT TV show
01:10:05 Bomb 4: How can you have a good relationships and build a great business
01:11:35 Follow Dan!
01:12:30 Three pieces of advice from Dan to blow up your brand
01:17: 35 Bomb 5: You cannot fail if you never give up
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Listen up or run for cover |
| 0:08.2 | From the people who have attitude of people who need the real |
| 0:13.7 | Bradley |
| 0:22.9 | What it is Bradley back again with another episode of drop in bombs today in the studio is no different |
| 0:29.7 | Folks you know I've got a real treat for you and today I'd even say it's freaking 10x to that Dan called well better known as punk ass joins us today. What's up, Dan? |
| 0:40.6 | What's up, Brad? How you doing brother? |
| 0:42.6 | Do do like people that not know you very well like call you Dan or do they call you a punk ass? |
| 0:48.4 | I think I've migrated now. I'm slowly more and more people are calling me Dan |
| 0:54.2 | So the punk ass is like punk ass is a character that was created to launch that big ass brand everyone's heard about tap out |
| 1:01.8 | Now listen Dan. I got to ask you because |
| 1:04.8 | Tap out was a freaking iconic brand right you and your three buddies, right started that holder. Yeah |
| 1:10.7 | So and I'm sure you've listen you've been interviewed a million times and I'm sure everybody asked you about tap out |
| 1:16.9 | I'm gonna ask you about some other shit, but I do want to touch on tap out. How big did that company get for you? |
| 1:22.1 | Well, I mean it exploded. I mean we didn't I had no when we started that company the goal was a million dollars |
| 1:31.2 | It was like we're gonna make a million bucks one day and I remember sitting there were times I was just sitting bad and |
| 1:38.6 | Think about how many people it would take to actually make a million like how many how many |
| 1:45.0 | Shirts do I have to ship my fouls how many people would it take to ship those shirts? |
| 1:50.0 | Well, yeah, I mean it's you think about that and it almost seemed it was so staggering that I just thought I |
| 1:55.7 | Don't even know what that would look like. Where how would I even get that many employees and |
| 2:00.1 | And how much for that cost to have that many employees? It was just you know stuff that keeps you up at night as an entrepreneur, right? |
| 2:06.4 | but |
| 2:07.9 | I mean it just exploded I |
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