Brandon Bowsky
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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How's it going? Thanks for having me, Dan. Appreciate you. Let's see. Background was a professional gamer when I dropped out of school at 15, got into DJing and producing electronic music. After that, ended up doing a brief stint as a manager of electronic artists. Partner screwed me over. Had a subscription box startup in 2015 when that was still hot. Brand new. Failed miserably.
And then ended up living in my car. And somebody said, go try insurance. So I did. and ended up growing a pretty big agency, hundreds of employees from 30 at the time when I started there. Left that, started my own thing, made a few million dollars, and then that turned into wanting to buy a watch. Ex-girlfriend didn't want me to spend money, so I decided I would make the money on the side.
She couldn't get mad. That led to a lead gen empire that did hundreds of millions of dollars and powered over a billion dollars in revenue for clients. Well over $5 billion, probably close to $10 billion now in insurance premiums. And then now today just focused on scaling, you know, coaching and mentorship programs that can help people get the lives of their dreams.
I think the majority of people just don't want to put themselves out there and they're deathly afraid of failure. And they're even more afraid of being perceived publicly failing to me. And I'm sure you've had this happen. Failure just happens. It's just life. And if you're not failing, you're probably not going to learn because you only learn from your mistakes.
You don't learn as much from your successes. Your successes are usually blind luck. It's like, we had this idea. The idea did well. Okay, great. Now that doesn't universally apply to every idea we're ever going to have. We're going to try tons of, I had a gym over a million dollar loss, biohacking gym before it's time. Now there's tons of biohacking stuff.
It's a craze, but in COVID during a pandemic, having a gym, major L. And I've had a million other ideas. I mean, dude, I've had over 100 registered corps. I probably only made money at 15, 20 companies. And a lot of people don't see that part. They just see the flashy cars, the nice houses, living in a million cities, private jets, all that stuff, and think, oh, yeah, it must be nice.
Or, oh, that guy got lucky. It's like, no, you just fail a lot. And a lot of people are very, very afraid to fail.
Yeah, so I mean, I wanna agree, never quit your day job. I tell people that no matter what they plan on doing, pivoting to, if you have a stable source of income and you don't have a massive surplus of savings, like a big war chest, do not quit your job that provides you the meals. Because otherwise you're screwed. And a lot of people are like, I want my back up against the wall. No, you don't.
You really don't.
No, and you might be, and you'll find out the hard way, but most people, 95, 99%, they're not built like that. To me, I think you take the thing that you're doing well, think, what could I do like that in my off time to make extra money? Or if I want to do something totally different that I don't like that thing I'm doing, let's say. I want to probably tell people to start in sales.
The reason being, if you sell something someone else has already proven, a lot of the guesswork is taken out. And you don't have to quit your day job to sell something. Exactly. And you get to learn. You get to learn how that operation functions, what all the different roles are, all the different teams, the different departments.
And then you can eventually replicate that over time when you have something that you can sell that is your own. And I think a lot of people... They chase the next shiny object thinking that buying some information from somebody or paying somebody to mentor them, which is oftentimes a really bad deal because they're not ready for the mentorship.
And they just think, if I pay this person, they'll just tell me how to be successful. No, I mean, people like us that have been successful, we can only tell people the answers to the questions that they have. For us to try to download or upload to them everything that we've ever done, it's never going to happen. We couldn't spend enough time if we tried.
So I think a lot of people are looking for the wrong thing and they should just be looking for what is the low-hanging fruit opportunity where I can put additional money in my bank that can eventually replace my day job doing something I maybe like more or if I don't like it more, on the road to doing something I like more. I usually think that's sales.
No. I'll tell you the worst part about the 50 grand. When the person starts taking the 50, 100 grand, let's say you're crushing it and they have the ability to grow and scale or they could stay at their like 1.5 million number where they're able to pull out 300 grand a year. We as investors, we're screwed. For sure.
Not only are we screwed financially because the valuation is never going to go up because they're not growing and because the profit, even if we own a chunk of the company. Right. It's going to take forever to pay us back, but we're screwed because that person's life just changed.
And a lot of people, when they experienced that first big shift where they go from making 50, 60, a hundred grand to half a million plus or 300 grand plus, or, you know, in this day and age, especially around a million plus, when they start making that type of money, everything changes. And most people don't keep the hunger. They think I'm rich now.
And in insurance, we just called the Ferrari boys because they would make their first, you know, 500 grand and spend 300 on a Ferrari or a Lambo and And it's a real problem, but everybody does it because they want to keep up with the Joneses. The reality is most of the people they're trying to keep up with don't have it either.
And you start to see who has it and who doesn't when they have it for 10 years straight. But these people, they see, oh, my friend has this watch. I got to go get a better watch. Or my friend's got that. I got to get this. The second you start taking that money out and it hits the bank, people don't realize it's so easy to spend money.
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