Derek From More Plates More Dates: His +$100M Business Empire, Bryan Johnson & TRT

My First Million

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Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Episode 495: Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) talk with Derek from More Plates More Dates (https://www.youtube.com/@MorePlatesMoreDates) about his origin story, +$100M business empire, investment portfolio, his thoughts on Bryan Johnson, how he sources his food and much more. Want to see more MFM? Subscribe to the MFM YouTube 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 (7:15) Why Pickup artists are often great entrepreneurs (12:50) Derek’s business empire (21:30) Degrees of difficulty with Derek’s businesses (28:00) What are Derek’s business goals? (39:25) Derek’s investment portfolio (43:45) The origin story of More Plates More Dates (52:00) How Derek became a health science expert (54:20) Thoughts on Bryan Johnson (1:00:25) Taking TRT and other supplements (1:06:15) Where Derek buys his food — Links: • More Plates More Dates Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/c/MorePlatesMoreDates • Derek's Twitter - https://twitter.com/Derek_Fitness • Gorilla Mind - https://gorillamind.com/ • Marek Health - https://marekhealth.com/ • Intelligent Elephant - https://intelligent.shop/ • Good Looking Loser - https://www.goodlookingloser.com/ • Chris's Twitter - https://twitter.com/goodlookinglosr • Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. — 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	I don't know what you're doing per month, but I would not be shocked if this was doing
0:05.3	Between six to eight million a month in revenue
0:08.9	Blink twice if I'm right
0:12.7	Yeah, you're uh, you guys are pretty, you know, on point with your ballpark
0:18.9	I feel like I could rule the world. I know I could be what I want to
0:23.9	I put my all in it like no days. Oh
0:26.4	All right, what's up? We got Derek for more place more dates here. Derek. I made a fatal mistake before this podcast
0:33.5	I don't know if you know this, but um
0:36.2	I was doing research last night. I was like, okay, I gotta be prepped. Got to be ready to go
0:40.1	I've been following you for a while, but I said let me just make sure I I button up here
0:45.0	And I go to your subreddit our slash more plates more dates
0:49.6	To be to be clear, this is not like my subreddit. I didn't start right but I didn't realize this at the time
0:55.8	Okay, so I'm on this subreddit thinking that's your subreddit. I think these are
0:59.9	Just polite civil faithful fans. In fact, it says there's 163,000 faithfuls. That's how they call the members
1:07.8	It is a top 1% subreddit. So you're doing really well. And I say hey
1:14.0	I'm interviewing uh Derek tomorrow. He's coming on our pod. We're gonna hang out. What should we talk about?
1:18.5	And I said, you know, give me some ideas
1:21.2	Hoping that this, you know, I did this like, you know, let's see a time of post. It was like 1am
1:27.2	And I go to sleep and I wake up and I said, oh, let me just check that real quick. Maybe somebody had some really thoughtful questions
1:33.2	Here's the breakdown
1:34.7	98% of them want to know um how big your penis is that's the number one comment by far everybody said the same exact thing
1:41.6	I don't know if that's an inside joke or you just have some really really eager fans
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