John Shahidi - President of Full Send speaks on building Happy Dad, having Elon Musk on the podcast, and the future of the creator economy

The Casey Adams Show

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Business, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 637 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Today on "The Casey Adams Show" I sat down with John Shahidi. John is an American businessman, manager and President of Full Send / Nelk Boys and Happy Dad Hard Seltzer. With his brother Sam Shahidi, the two started Shots Studios, a YouTube podcast network for top internet brands and talent including Full Send, Mike Tyson, The Pivot and Lele Pons. On today's episode we speak about John's entrepreneurial journey, teaming up with Kyle & The Nelk Boys to launch Happy Dad, having Elon Musk on the Full Send podcast, and much more. Follow John Shahidi on Instagram (and all socials @john): https://www.instagram.com/john Follow Happy Day on Instagram (and all socials @happydad): https://www.instagram.com/happydad Follow Full Send on Instagram (and all socials @fullsend): https://www.instagram.com/fullsend Follow Casey Adams on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/casey Follow The Casey Adams Show on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/caseyadamsshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Casey Adams show. Today I am joined by the one and only John Shahidi from Full Send, Happy Dad, Nalk Boys, and many money more.
0:10.6	John, how are you doing today, brother?
0:11.8	Good. Good. Thanks for coming here.
0:13.4	Of course. Thanks so much for having us here. You know, I walked into the office and it's so cool to see, you know, everyone sees you guys on YouTube on the cameras,
0:21.1	but to really see the HQ and everyone doing their thing. It's super cool. So happy to be here.
0:27.4	I guess to jump into it, man, like full send, Happy Dad, you guys have built, and you've built
0:33.8	incredible brands over the years, you know, where do you spend your time day to day now?
0:38.9	I know you guys are, you know, scaling Happy Dad like crazy.
0:41.9	I see it everywhere.
0:42.6	So congrats on that.
0:43.7	But where do you spend your time?
0:45.2	And what does your day take we look like?
0:48.1	It really, I mean, Happy Dad takes a lot of time right now because it's such a growing business.
0:53.2	And we're hiring so many
0:56.1	people in the 16 states that we're in so we're actually bringing in a staff into each building a team
1:03.7	in specific every market and you know earlier this year the focus was actually bringing them into states, but now we've
1:11.6	broken up to states based off markets, and we're creating different, like we're hiring
1:16.6	from regional managers to area sales managers.
1:20.6	We have a great distributor in every single state, so we've been lucky there.
1:24.6	And, you know, now it's like local marketing teams teams so happy dad's been taking up a lot of time
1:29.8	you know obviously full send and everything that comes with full send takes a lot of time from
1:34.3	the production which we've got i want to say the probably the best team i've ever worked with
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