How to Rebuild After Losing Everything
The Playbook With David Meltzer
David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | let's start out with maybe a little bit about what what made you popular out there what made you |
| 0:04.5 | a business coach and if you don't mind i'd love to have you share with everybody a little bit about |
| 0:09.1 | yourself yeah i think all of the above has contributed to building a community and once you build a |
| 0:15.3 | community of people that are at your frequency i call it my neighborhood uh people who want to help |
| 0:20.8 | each other and know people that help each other at your frequency. I call it my neighborhood, people who want to help each other and know people |
| 0:22.1 | that help each other at your frequency. And one of the things that I recognized when you reached |
| 0:27.4 | out to me is I am very selective in who I work one-on-one with. I do 90% of the people I work with |
| 0:34.6 | are, you know, for free. I do free trainings Wednesday, Friday, Instagrams, all the different ask many things, |
| 0:41.3 | meetups, holding courts and interviews. |
| 0:43.5 | But to work one-on-one-one with me, you have to be at the same frequency. |
| 0:46.5 | And I do different events about this frequency. |
| 0:52.5 | And my frequency is one, which was a long journey. |
| 0:56.9 | One, growing up poor. |
| 0:59.0 | Two, making my first million dollars out of law school, nine months out of law school, |
| 1:03.4 | then becoming a multimillionaire. |
| 1:05.4 | My first exit in 1995, working my way through the Silicon Valley, |
| 1:10.3 | raising hundreds of millions of dollars, making |
| 1:12.3 | over $100 million to end up being CEO in 1999 of Samsung's first data phone division with |
| 1:20.7 | Microsoft phone. Before they called them smartphones, they called them convergence devices. |
| 1:26.9 | And then because of my technology and venture capital background, |
| 1:30.3 | getting hired by a visionary, by the world's most notable sports agency, |
| 1:35.3 | Lee Steinberg Sports and Entertainment, not because they're a great lawyer, |
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