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The Playbook With David Meltzer

The Habit That Separates Rich From Broke

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Careers, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, I sit down with Daniel Mac for a wide-ranging conversation on building wealth, investing with intention, and staying grounded as success scales. We talk about interviewing nearly 10,000 people, asking for help as a career shortcut, and why betting on people often matters more than betting on ideas. I share how I made my first million in nine months during the early internet days, what real estate, secured assets, and calculated risk look like now, and why technology from crypto to AI changes productivity without changing values. We also cover family, failure, gratitude, and making better decisions that actually last.

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, I am with David Meltzer.

0:01.8

He has office hours and the playbook.

0:04.9

And I always start these off with the same question.

0:07.1

What do you do for a living?

0:08.9

When I find out, I'll let you know.

0:10.6

No, right now today, I do content and invest.

0:15.7

Okay.

0:16.3

And that's the primary source of my income is by doing content and investing in companies. Okay. And you chat with thousands of people. Yes. I know we were talking earlier. Could you give me a number on how many people you think you have interviewed total in your life and been interviewed by? Oh, probably close to 10,000 in my life. Oh, my gosh. That is absurd. So I know that you have great advice for people.

0:39.2

I've seen you do speaker conventions and stuff like that along with your podcast.

0:43.0

What advice would you give the average 18 year old out there to be successful? If you could

0:47.5

kind of boil it down to maybe one or two talking about. Simple, man. Ask for help. Find someone

0:52.3

who sits in a situation you want to be in and ask them for

0:56.7

directions on how to get there. In fact, your whole brand was built off of my advice.

1:01.4

Oh, God. There we go. You're like the founding father, basically. I'm Abe Lincoln.

1:05.6

It's like, I didn't even realize it, but you, you, I'm dishonest Abe. Are you involved in the crypto and NFT sphere?

1:13.7

I wanted to know your opinions on that.

1:15.7

I am.

1:16.6

And the reason is I started my career in technology out of law school.

1:19.8

And so I always look at capabilities of technology, whether it was Web 1.0, that's old I am.

1:24.9

Web 2O or Web 3O.

1:26.7

And the capabilities of NFT and crypto are incredible, but 99% of the companies that were around in Web 1 are gone. 99% of the companies today will be gone, but Web 3 won't be. So look at the capabilities. I'm all over it. Are you interested in like the whole like metaverse like VR kind of stuff? Like what do

1:44.4

your thoughts on that? Because some people are not about it. Some people are like it is the

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