Episode 20: Dan Fleyshman On Investing, Influencer Marketing, the Trading Card Boom

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Business, Entrepreneurship, Sports

4.4 • 620 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

When investor and innovator Dan Fleyshman trademarked the phrase "Who's Your Daddy" in high school & turned a merchandise play into an energy drink business that made him the youngest founder of a publicly traded company at age 23, it was just the beginning of his story. On this episode of Out of Office, Fleyshman talks about his investment strategy, his early ventures including the boom and bust of the online poker industry, and what "influencer marketing" meant to him in the pre-social media world. Now, he's leveraged that knowledge as founder of Elevator Studios, managing an army of social media influencers and brand campaigns for large businesses. Fleyshman also reveals what's next in the booming trading cards industry and why he co-founded the trading card shop Cards and Coffee and the social-commerce platform Coffee Breakers with Steve Aoki and DJ Skee, turning the "old school" trading card shop model on its head.

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0:00.0	What's up, everybody?
0:05.9	Welcome to another boardroom, out-of-office podcast.
0:09.2	This is podcast 20, my man Gianni Harel.
0:12.7	20.
0:13.8	And 20, we got a special guest.
0:15.4	Somebody I'm excited to learn from today, actually, because he's the king of the trading
0:19.5	card space right now, are one of the kings
0:21.5	and i'm trying to add that vertical heavily into our business so without further ado mr dan
0:28.4	flechman dan welcome to the show thanks for having me is entrepreneur a fair title for what you are
0:34.5	absolutely yep which and and for entrepreneur for me like i've been pretty
0:39.3	dead set on my thought lately that it's something you're born with um and that you're wired a certain
0:46.5	way there's so many components that go into it and it doesn't always mean successful but do you agree
0:52.8	with me from from that standpoint?
1:11.2	Yeah, I always say that I would pick somebody that's from Compton over somebody from Harvard because the guy from Harvard has too many options. And the guy from Compton's willing to die out there. He's willing to work until 2, 3, 4 in the morning. He's willing to not sleep for two days if he has to. He'll pick up the trash. he'll deal with the billionaire CEO and then go clean up the floor, like he'll do whatever. Yeah. And so I think that's in me because I do that. I'll be on stage talking on the stage. I'll go walk over to the billionaire, shake his hand. If somebody spills a drink on the stage, I'll walk back in front of 600 people and get on the floor and clean in front of them because I have no people to it. And so I think that part can't be trained because you have to be willing to stay up morning,
1:32.1	noon, and night and go through the struggles.
1:33.4	And I don't think most people are built like that.
1:35.5	Yeah, I agree with you.
1:36.8	I asked Gary Vee, I saw that he said once that when he interviews people for a job and
1:43.4	they said they didn't go to school or as opposed to
1:47.6	someone that had this great resume of uh degrees he leans towards the person that didn't go to school
1:53.1	and i challenged him on that because i didn't go to school it's you didn't go to college but that's
1:58.4	not real life and entrepreneurs can go to college and can grow up in Beverly
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