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Thrivetime Show | Business School without the BS

Gaming Guru Steve Hoffman (a.k.a. Captain Hoff) | How to Turn Your Hobbies Into a Cash-Flow Positive Money-Making Empire

Thrivetime Show | Business School without the BS

Clay Clark

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The serial entrepreneur, angel investor, LP in August Capital, and CEO of Founders Space shares how he was able to turn his hobbies into a cash-flow positive money-making empire.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Aaron Antis on today's edition of the Thrive Time Show, we are interviewing our

0:03.5

first guest that I know of who goes by the nickname Captain. It's Captain Hoff.

0:07.8

Yes, that's true. Now when you hear that someone is a Captain in your mind,

0:10.5

does that sound scary? Do you picture a pilot, a navigator on a sea ship? What comes to your mind

0:18.5

when you picture a Captain? Well, as soon as you said that, I started smelling Captain Crunch.

0:25.2

You don't picture the ocean or an airplane or a spaceship. I was thinking about a bowl of cereal.

0:30.4

That's what I was thinking about. I picture a man at sea who is trying to fight against the waves,

0:36.8

trying to find a way to fight his way back home to the land. And so I'm going to queue up

0:42.5

some suspenseful music and try to really create the level of panic that I feel like you would

0:47.7

experience on a daily basis. If your nickname was Captain and you were navigating a sea vessel,

0:52.8

can you imagine navigating a sea vessel as a career? No, not really. Our guest at no point

0:58.4

navigates a sea vessel. Our guest has found a way to turn his hobbies into a cash flow

1:03.1

positive money-making empire. But still, I want to make it a little bit scary. Are you ready?

1:07.7

Yeah, let's do it. Okay, here we go.

1:10.3

Ladies and gentlemen, on today's edition of the Thrive Time Show, we introduced to you

1:16.3

a cereal hunter for newer. Captain Crunch. It's Captain Hoff.

1:20.2

An angel investor, a man who makes video games, and a man who goes by the nickname,

1:26.8

Captain Hoff. Get your barnacles off the bow!

1:32.5

James, you really got into it there for a minute.

1:34.8

Oh man, listen, I've got to get into it. Did you ever, did you ever as a kid want to be a captain?

1:39.3

100%. Did you really? No, I meant I was going 100%.

1:42.8

Some shows don't need a celebrity narrator to introduce the show, but this show dies.

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