TMBA515: Dan and Ian: The Full Backstory. Part 1

Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle

Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen

Digital Nomad, Business, Ecommerce, Society & Culture, Amazon, Founders, Cash Flow, Places & Travel, Founder, Business Owner, Cashflow, Management, Entrepreneurship, Million, Operator, Operations, Profits, Distributed Team

4.9 • 527 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

In the ten years that Dan and Ian have been recording this podcast, the number one thing that they hear from listeners is that they want to know more about their story.

Today's episode is the first part of a two-part documentary series where Dan and Ian open up about their own personal history.

In this episode, you will hear why they each decided to move to San Diego, California, the circumstances that led to their meeting, how they became friends, and ultimately how they decided to become business partners.

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0:00.0	I will never forget Ian's application. He was so different from everybody else that applied to this
0:06.8	job, because as the person who's creating the job, you expect to get your ass kissed. Ian wasn't
0:13.5	kissing anybody's ass. So instead, what he did was he said, like, look, here's like a piece of
0:19.8	my portfolio. If you want to see the whole thing, I really ain't going to need you to sign an NDA, here's like a piece of my portfolio.
0:25.9	If you want to see the whole thing, I really ain't going to need you to sign an NDA, which is a non-disclosure agreement.
0:29.8	Dan had a desk kind of across from mine.
0:32.6	I couldn't really see his desk from mine. But I remember thinking, like, this is an interesting guy.
0:36.4	Like, he's in and out of the owner's office all day.
0:40.5	He reads books on his lunch break.
0:43.4	And he didn't really want to have anything to do with me.
0:49.3	Hey, podcast listener.
0:50.8	Even if you are alone in your entrepreneurial journey, know that today, right now in your earbuds, you are joined by thousands of entrepreneurs from all around the globe seeking to grow better, more profitable, location independent businesses.
1:03.0	If you'd like to learn more about what we do and download our entire back catalog, check out tropical MBA.com.
1:18.6	Hey, everyone. Today is a special episode. We've been working on it for a while. It's sort of a
1:23.8	long-form look at Ian and I's relationship over the years.
1:31.7	We really wanted to run a dynamite deal this week, and it didn't really fit into the flow of that pod, so we decided just to put the deal up front.
1:35.7	So I hope you enjoy this week's deal, and we'll get started with the story in just a few minutes.
1:42.2	Through the power of podcast editing, the boss man and I have warped in with another dynamite deal.
1:50.0	You can check out today's dynamite deal over at dynamite deals.com.
1:55.3	This one is an interesting one.
1:56.9	The tagline is simply this, never fly coach again. So for the low price of $449, it's a one-time
2:06.8	fee, you are going to get a strategy session that will help you outline how to get the most
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