How Mike Posner built a music empire from his dorm room

My First Million

Hubspot

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2024

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Episode 640: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP )sits down with Mike Posner ( https://x.com/MikePosner ) about his insane hustle, fame, loss and reinvention. — Show Notes: (0:00) iTunesU Story (14:41) Going back to school, famous (21:40) Getting on the radio (26:40) “I just do what's cool to me and sometimes the whole world agrees” (30:06) One true sentence / Writing Process (39:50) Money, fame and Survivor (46:52) Advice to my younger self (48:10) Missed flight story (58:00) The making of a hit song (1:04:31) Walking Across America (1:11:09) "How cheap is your happiness?" (1:14:17) Beautiful States v Suffering States — Links: • Mike Posner - https://mikeposner.com/ — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com • Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth • Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/ My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

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0:00.0	Your life is already a three-act story.
0:02.0	You have the rise to meteoric fame.
0:04.0	Mike Pozer.
0:05.0	Breakthrough Otter of the Year Award.
0:07.0	Then you have the crash.
0:08.0	My career had plummeted.
0:09.0	I had a hit and my career plummeted.
0:11.0	And then you have the rebirth.
0:12.0	One of Spotify's top 10 most
0:15.0	stream songs of all time. Mike Posner is enjoying sweet success. At the time it was
0:20.4	scary the fame the adoration the money
0:24.0	really the fame the money all other stuff was nice it was the fame
0:28.3	man so what I'm supposed to do is ask you to walk me through that but I already
0:31.8	know that story.
0:32.6	So I said, what am I actually curious about?
0:34.7	And it's why you would climb Everest,
0:36.6	why you would walk across America.
0:38.4	What's the philosophy that drives somebody to do those things?
0:41.4	I've never been asked that before. Okay let me let me try to tell the truth. I want to ask you about some things back when we were at Duke. So if people
0:58.1	were listening who don't know this, me and Mike actually were at Duke at
1:01.2	the same time, same same year freshman class.
1:03.2	I remember hearing stories that there's a white boy rapper in the dorm next door and we were like,
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