Reed Duchscher: Inside Feastables, Night Media and Niche Creator Businesses

My First Million

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Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2022

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Episode 475: Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) and Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) talk to CEO of Night Media & Mr. Beast’s Manager — Reed Duchscher (https://twitter.com/Reedjd) — about his agency, his favorite creator businesses, why he chose to go up against Hershey’s with Feastables, and more. Want to see more MFM? Subscribe to the MFM YouTube channel here. Check Out Shaan's Stuff: * Try Shepherd * Shaan's Personal Assistant System * Power Writing Course * Daily Newsletter Check Out Sam's Stuff: * Hampton * Ideation Bootcamp * Copy That ----- Show Notes: (03:45) - Are Talent Management Agencies Good or Bad Businesses? (12:00) - Night Media’s Org Structure (23:35) - How Kick is Overtaking Twitch (26:00) - How Reed Finds CEOs for Creator Businesses (like Feastables) (28:50) - Why Creator Businesses are Challenging (29:50) - How Logan Paul & KSI started Prime (35:00) - Why Reed & Mr. Beast Believe Feastables is a Massive Opportunity (41:00) - How Does Feastables Play Out? (48:30) - Reed’s Favorite Creator Businesses (Mainstream + Niche) (1:02:50) - Reed's Thoughts on Twitter vs. Threads (1:08:30) - Would Reed Sell Night Media? ------ Links: * Producer Ben Twitter - https://twitter.com/BenWilsonTweets * How to Take Over the World - https://open.spotify.com/show/1gqvQ7h7BxNSVoQVTnwihr * Ithaca Holdings - https://hybecorp.com/eng/news/news/189?companyCode=ALL&page=0 * Night Media - https://www.night.co/ * Kick - https://kick.com/ * Prime - https://drinkprime.com/ * Rare Candy - https://rarecandy.com/ * Chamberlain Coffee - https://chamberlaincoffee.com * Dhar Mann - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_hK9fOxyy_TM8FJGXIyG8Q * Ryan Hall Y’all - https://www.youtube.com/@RyanHallYall * Millennial Farmer - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp0rRUsMDlJ1meYAQ6_37Dw * Cole The Cornstar - https://www.youtube.com/c/ColeTheCornstar * Blake Robbins - https://twitter.com/blakeir * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. ------ Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more. ----- Additional episodes you might enjoy: • #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits • #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future • #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto • #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett • #218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates • Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More • How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

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0:00.0	We'll bleep out every mention because this is the zero cloud podcast, zero cloud chasing
0:07.2	podcast.
0:08.2	And we have no cloud policy.
0:10.0	We did not, we did not want to do that.
0:12.1	Wait, but do we have to use this face on a thumbnail?
0:14.2	No, we're going to blur it out.
0:16.4	I think we have to put like his face and then read space next to it and blur out read
0:20.6	space and the thumbnail is like the man behind the scenes or something ridiculous.
0:25.1	I feel like I could rule the world.
0:27.9	I know I could be what I want to put my all in it like a days.
0:32.8	All right, what's up?
0:35.3	We got read from night media.
0:37.0	He's famous for managing a bunch of awesome YouTubers, including one huge YouTuber.
0:43.9	Probably the biggest YouTuber in the world, but you know what?
0:45.9	Every interview is just people asking him about this other guy.
0:49.9	I find that to be a little distasteful, a little, a little disrespectful.
0:55.0	And very much cloud chasing.
0:58.4	And I just, you know, me and Sam, we were texted this morning and we just said, you know
1:01.8	what?
1:02.8	He's coming on today.
1:04.6	We're not saying you can bleep that out.
1:06.9	We're not saying that name.
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