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The Money Mondays

The Entrepreneur’s Playbook: From Living Room Startups to Billion-Dollar Brands 🏢 EP140

The Money Mondays

Dan Fleyshman

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.3483 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Money Mondays, Dan Fleyshman sits down with powerhouse entrepreneurs Cameron Forni and Dan DaSilva to talk about building disruptive brands, scaling companies to billion-dollar valuations, and staying ahead in competitive industries.---Cameron Forni is an entrepreneur, investor, and brand builder best known for founding Select Cannabis, which sold to Curaleaf in a landmark $1.27 billion deal. He recently launched Adaptooria, a functional hemp beverage designed to help people manage stress, anxiety, and depression, with a mission to support mental health causes and inspire the next generation of entrepreneurs.---Dan Dasilva is an entrepreneur and early pioneer in online marketing. By 19, he made his first million through affiliate marketing and went on to scale ventures in dropshipping, financial publishing, and copywriting, his strongest skill. Known for creating high-performing funnels and campaigns in both the business and health niches, Dan now focuses on affiliate marketing and publishing at scale, while pursuing his passion for philanthropy and building an animal sanctuary.---Like this episode? Watch more like it 👇Meet the Man Who Did Over $4B in Acquisitions - Roland Frasier 💵: https://youtu.be/Ozb2GxLvo9ATravis Lubinsky & James Malinchak on Building PROFITABLE Brands 📈: https://youtu.be/Q6x_VQPFBuoDo This To Build A Profitable Investment Portfolio in 2024 💸 : https://youtu.be/lvgy6lSaCUMPeter Voogd & Dan Zrihen: Sales Strategies That Made Them Millions 💵: https://youtu.be/HlT3MVS1jigWatch ALL Full Episodes Here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs0D-M5aH-0IOUKtQPKts-VZfO55mfH6k---The Money Mondays is a business podcast here to teach you how to make money, invest money, and donate money by showcasing some of the world's most successful people and how they do the same. Hosted by serial entrepreneur Dan Fleyshman, the youngest founder of a publicly traded company in history, this money podcast gives you an exclusive behind the scenes look at how the wealthiest celebrities, entrepreneurs, athletes and influencers make, invest and donate money.If you want to learn more business and investing while you work to improve your financial life, you're in the right place! Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@themoneymondays?sub_confirmation=1Dan Fleyshman,The Money MondaysLearn more here: https://themoneymondays.comWatch all the podcast episodes: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs0D-M5aH-0IOUKtQPKts-VZfO55mfH6kLet’s Connect...Website: https://themoneymondays.comPodcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-money-mondays/id1663564091Twitter: https://twitter.com/themoneymondaysLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-money-mondays/about/TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@themoneymondaysFB: https://www.facebook.com/The-Money-Mondays-110233585203220/

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0:00.0

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to a very special edition of the Money Monday's podcast, where we cover three core topics, how to make money, how to invest money, how to give away a charity.

0:14.8

Our guest today, I've known for many, many, many years.

0:18.4

He's built a zillion dollar company. He's now building his next zillion dollar company. So we're going to have fun diving into all things about money and investing, but also about building the brand. And why, going into his next venture, why did he choose this category and why he's going to scale it to such a big, big, big business? Now, as you guys know, as we're covering those three core topics, this podcast will be under 40 minutes because the average commute to work is 45 minutes.

0:41.6

The average workout is 45 minutes.

0:43.3

This episode will be between 32 and 38 minutes for your listening pleasure.

0:46.9

I like to tell you that because we have a 92% listen to rate.

0:50.5

That means that people actually listen to the whole podcast, unlike a lot of podcasts where people just kind of rant and rave for a long time, we keep this very streamlined, very focused,

0:58.4

and also, this podcast is not just about you.

1:01.6

It could be for people from your past, present, and future.

1:04.6

There might be people that are going to be very, very beneficial if you share this podcast

1:08.1

with them because of what happens today from Cameron Forney. So without further ado, Cameron, give them the quick two-minute bio. So we get straight to the money. All right. Thank you, Dan, for having me. Appreciate it. My name is Cameron Forney. My last company that I built, I'm a serial entrepreneur. My last company was select, select oil, select cannabis. That was also cure partners. I sold that to cure a leaf.

1:29.6

So if you know those vaporizers with a little less circle on it, that was kind of my creation.

1:34.4

And built that up. I did start of my living room, 90,000, my first two months, 900,000 next

1:40.6

year, 9 million next year, 40 million, 117 million. Exit for 980 million U.S., 1.27 billion Canadian to Cureleaf, which is a publicly traded cannabis company. It's the largest cannabis company in the world. They do about 1.3 billion a year. I stayed on as the president of Selected Cureleaf, did that as long as possible, and then, you know, waived, you know, non-compete to get back into the space

2:02.0

and really, really, you know, batten down the hatches on what I wanted to do next.

2:06.3

So I spent about five years, you know, investing in companies, made 27 different investments

2:11.1

and realized I really love building brands and I really love operating.

2:14.6

So I've been at this for about two and a half years now. I've

2:18.6

spent about $2 million just in formulation and taste and function. I started this because my mom

2:23.7

was basically going through dementia and Alzheimer's and so I think a lot of people's parents

2:28.7

these days, your parents as well. And sugar brain is killing us. And you know, thank God we have

2:33.2

RFK in office now, right? He's giving new motivation and inspiration of life. But sugar brain is killing us. And, you know, thank God we have RFK in office now, right?

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