Dan Fleyshman | Expand Your Reach

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Jon Gordon

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🗓️ 23 October 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Positive U, Jon is joined by Dan Fleyshman. Dan became the youngest founder of a publicly traded company at 19 years old, and his business ventures have rapidly expanded since. Over the course of the episode, we take a closer look at what businesses and strategies have led to Dan’s success, what social media platforms are working best for influencers, and how to expand your reach.

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0:00.0	Hey, this is John Gordon with Positive You.
0:11.3	And today my guest is the legendary, the iconic Dan Fleischman, Dan, how are you doing?
0:17.4	Starting to be here.
0:19.4	Dan, we throw the word legend around a lot, but you know what?
0:22.0	You really are a legend in this world of investing, business, marketing.
0:27.1	You know, I was thinking about this earlier.
0:29.5	I know you, but I don't even know how you got started.
0:31.9	Like, what was your first business venture?
0:35.6	How did you get into this world of marketing and investing?
0:38.7	So when I was in high school, I had trademarked the cash phrase, who's your daddy?
0:43.1	Probe 300 products.
0:45.2	And by 17 years old, we'd started getting going.
0:48.3	18 years old, I wrote our first million dollars in orders.
0:51.3	And 19 years old, we did 9.5 million in sales through starter apparel with a big licensing deal in the UK.
0:58.4	Over the next few years, when I was 23 years old, I took a public on the stock market.
1:01.6	So that's how we became the youngest owners of a publicly traded company.
1:05.6	And to launch the energy drink from 23 years old to 27 years old, they just didn't sleep.
1:10.9	And we got the energy drinks into 55,000 retail stores in America.
1:15.4	So I did that for a decade from 17 to 27.
1:17.4	That's how it all started.
1:19.3	What was the energy drink called?
1:21.1	Who was your daddy?
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