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The Colin and Samir Show

How this college dropout caught the attention of billionaires

The Colin and Samir Show

Colin and Samir

Business

4.9665 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2024

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, we interview Alex Banayan about his book The Third Door, and how he successfully interviewed leaders across fields through cold email outreach. Alex shares lessons about networking, outreach and providing value that every creator needs to know. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

The most successful people are still sending cold emails out.

0:04.1

So this is the cold email template.

0:05.6

What was your Mark Zuckerberg mistake?

0:06.9

Oh, that's a bad one.

0:08.0

Viagra, Viagra, Viagra, Viagra.

0:09.4

Mark Zuckerberg.

0:10.3

Viagra, Viagra.

0:11.5

How do you do that?

0:13.2

The first paragraph is essentially this.

0:15.2

That doesn't feel right.

0:16.2

It works.

0:16.9

Boom.

0:17.3

Next paragraph. Do you feel like you had a misunderstanding of that? Not only was the answer, no, I had gotten myself blacklisted.

0:23.8

I didn't even know how to respond to that.

0:25.9

And if anyone listening wants to use this, feel free to write this down and use it yourself.

0:29.5

This is yours to use.

0:30.7

Today on The Collin and Samir Show, we're joined by Alex Benayan. Alex is the author of The Third Door, a book that chronicles the crazy story of him

0:39.8

dropping out of college to interview some of the most successful people in the world. Without

0:44.6

any connections, he did it through mastering cold outreach. After you listen to this episode,

0:49.8

you'll walk away with practical advice on how to creatively think about cold outreach and how to get responses

0:54.8

to your emails. This was a really fun conversation for us to have with Alex because we got to reflect

0:59.4

on our own experiences with cold outreach and tell stories about how we got in touch with some of the

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