The Unusual Story Of Death Row Records Co-Founder Michael Harris

My First Million

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Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Episode 421: Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) speaks with Death Row Records co-founder Michael "Harry-O" Harris about his many business ventures starting at a young age, starting a record company while imprisoned, and what he wants to accomplish since his release from prison two years ago. Want to see more MFM? Subscribe to the MFM YouTube channel here. ----- Links: * Michael "Harry-O" Harris Instagram * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. * Want more insights like MFM? Check out Shaan's newsletter. ------ Show Notes: (00:20) - Introduction of Michael Harris (01:35) - 11 businesses by age 26 (14:20) - How Michael got involved in drug business and arrested (20:25) - Started Death Row Records while in prison (26:50) - What sets apart culture changing people? (39:10) - What's it like managing creatives? (48:10) - How did prison shape you? ----- 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	You're doing something I think it's said close to a million dollars a day in drug sales.
0:05.5	Is that true?
0:06.7	They said to.
0:08.5	It was a two million a day.
0:11.4	I feel like I could rule the world and know I could be what I want to.
0:16.3	I put my all in it like a day's all.
0:18.5	On a road let's travel never looking back.
0:21.1	All right, man, we're live on the pod today.
0:23.6	We have Michael Harris, but do you like to go by Hario or Michael?
0:26.4	What do you like to go by?
0:27.6	Well, people call me, you know, people that know me by Hario,
0:30.8	call me Harry, call me old or Michael, whatever works.
0:35.4	So I'll kind of set this up, but basically I've read a lot about you and I've read about a lot
0:40.8	of the work that you've done. The way that we got connected was we have a mutual friend named Chris
0:46.3	who has this thing called the last mile, which helps people when they get out of prison,
0:50.3	helps them get jobs at tech companies.
0:52.0	And he's been bragging about you because I told him,
0:54.4	you can't see it now because I redecorate, but on my wall, I used to have a picture of
0:59.3	two Pock and Dre and easy E because I loved NWA and I loved the rebellious culture of people
1:06.4	who created cool stuff. And he goes, hey, you know, I know the guy who is part, you know,
1:11.7	part brains behind all that. And I go, what?
1:14.9	And he said, he said your name. I go, oh, I've read all about him.
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