🌱 Private dinners

Here’s your 3 insights in 3 minutes.

🍽️ Private Dinners

Last week I went to a private dinner for people who own or grow large youtube channels. 

Sound niche?

It used to be.

But not anymore. 

This was during the New Media Summit in Austin. Every business owner is trying to figure out video right now. Literally 3 different founders asking me to help them with YouTube in the same week.

Two things stood out from the dinner & conference: 

1 - When building anything, find a peer group. It's more fun AND you learn way quicker. 

2 - Relationships are everything. 

This is the part that gets skipped in professional settings. Everyone leads with "what do you do" , which is really just "what can you do for me." Few ask "what do you do for fun." Which is where real relationships begin.

Real relationships are why anyone at that dinner can text anyone else today and get help or support. 

That's the key. Find rooms like that. Or create one.

💪 5th Grader Swag

This 11-year-old doesn't even have a cell phone yet. 

But is building a $10k MRR business in public (and just hit $3k MRR). 

I interviewed him last year and still think about him all the time. 

He's building his solo business with ai tools. 

What gets me isn't the MRR. It's how he approaches his business with playfulness and zero baggage about what's "supposed" to be hard. 

When I first interviewed him, he was at $700 MRR. That was just 7 months ago. Now he just surpassed $3k mrr. 

Something I keep coming back to: what if it were fun & easy? 

Srihan is a full-time 5th grader and is building this all on the side. He's not even old enough to have a LinkedIn account! So he shares updates on his company page Agent Srihan.

Check out the video clip here.

🌱 Final Thought

One of my Naval Ravikant quotes:

Different people play different games. 

Some play status games.
Some play short-term money games.
Others play the long game.

The game matters. But the people matter more.

Salud,
Mitchell

Ps. I chopped off the man bun!