Devin Johnson
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Feb 2025
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Yeah. So from Indianapolis, Indiana. Grew up in a suburb called New Palestine, Indiana, 30 minutes east of downtown. Grew up. My mom worked three jobs, kept me in a good school. Dad was incarcerated for 12 years. Got out, found out quickly. He was a street pharmacist. That's how he broke it down to me. Street pharmacist. That's a new lingo right there. That's what white people call it.
Sweet pharmacist. Yeah, so mom and dad never married. Got to see two different sides of the aisle. You know, hardworking mom to barely put food on the table. And my dad that had money come so fast, he didn't know what to do with it. Ultimately, it was his demise. You know, overdosed and got caught up in the crazy. So growing up, I knew I wanted the money, the lifestyle, didn't know how.
So I got into entrepreneurship. I started by flipping sneakers. So I resold Nikes, Jordans, Yeezys. I got my start on a scooter and I would do Craigslist deals back in the day. So Craigslist was like Facebook marketplace for back before. Is Craigslist still around? It is, but it's scary. It's scary.
counters like hey i saw you at the grocery store it's scary what it is now i've i've went on there just just curious what it is nowadays but uh yeah just hustled my way uh up to getting my first car and then i was doing sneaker trade shows and and then after high school graduated um and got into digital marketing because sneakers It was my first adversity.
So everything used to release in stores that was exclusive, but then it went to apps only. So Nike would release their shoes on their app, et cetera, et cetera. Every brand. Like a GOAT and stuff like that. Yeah. GOAT is actually a reseller platform.
So those are authorized resellers or guys like me or you that have exclusive shoes that want to sell, but they verify them to make sure you're buying real shoes.
but um yeah once that happened it was very hard to get inventory and everyone knows in business no inventory no sales right so that was my first real adversity i got into digital marketing had three failed businesses and then my first success was a company called connected um it was a linkedin recruiting automation platform for corporations ranging from small to enterprise.
We grew that business to a couple hundred employees, had a sale event in October of 2023. And we took some of the framework that we originally were building into Connected and wrapped it into what we call Sales AI Now. We were in the early days of AI with the previous product, so it wasn't new to us.
But we knew, you know, basic business philosophy, right, for me is when there's a gold mine, manufacture shovels. So I like to build tech platforms that people can easily use the best of the best. And so we put everything we had into creating the easiest platform to actually make money with artificial intelligence.
So Sales AI is AI agents to take inbound phone calls, work leads, and set qualified appointments for your sales team, but also handle inbound customer support, ticket filings, orders, refunds, et cetera, et cetera. Cool. That's awesome, bro.
Yeah, man of faith, married, two kids, between work, kids, and miscellaneous hobbies in church. That's all I do. Very boring guy. It's very routine. Well, most successful people are.
yeah yeah how how how old were you when you when you started the sneaker game 15 15 years old man yeah yeah i was 15 so there was a life event that kick-started it but i was trying to respect the 90 seconds so yeah you're good the life we got plenty of time yeah so the life event that happened to kick start Selling sneakers. It wasn't like I woke up and was like, I'm motivated to go make money.
So my sister was diagnosed with magister blastoma brain cancer. And when that happened, my dad was an individual that ran from problems versus facing them. So there's another key lesson I learned young. and left my mom high and dry for over a year. My mom had to move into the hospital to take care of my sister. So my sister was in Riley Children's Hospital for over a year.
My mom lived at the Riley home, which is like apartments inside the hospital for kids that have to have long-term care. And she would come home, make sure I didn't miss events or whatever. But I basically lived between grandparents and on my own for a year and a half. And I was like, I got to figure out how to help my mom in this situation financially. So my dad would always buy me shoes.
So any birthday suck up gift, I missed the game, which was every game. So I had a long story short, I had a lot of shoes that I knew had some value. So I sold my Jordans. They were all retros. Anyone listening probably knows like the bread 11. I had like pair of Lowe's, all the cool grays, the Concord. So I got fresh shoes in school. I sold all those. I had about $2,000 to work with.
And then my first resale pair was LeBron All-Star Pack. I got my hands on that back in the day. It was one of the first shoes someone got killed over in public. So fun fact. Damn. Yeah. So that's what kickstarted it. Then I got addicted to it. I got addicted to making money, hustling.
It was really cool being 15 and your friends are like, oh, my mom wouldn't give me 20 bucks to go to the mall and I pull out $5,000. I was addicted to that. I did build a very bad ego in high school and I quickly got that knocked down going into real business out post high school. But yeah, I got addicted to making money and being able to stand on my own. That's awesome, dude.
Devin, you've recomped your physique as well, right? Yeah, so I've done 75 hard twice. Shout out, Andy. And for the listeners, I'll tell you, 75 hard is truly a mental program. Fitness benefits, but honestly, that program built a lot of disciplines that carried into business for me. Just a side plug for the 75 hard program, but yes. I completed it twice. My heaviest was 312.
I just did your end body over in the gym. I'm 214.14 today. Fuck, that's 98 pounds, bro. Yeah. That's amazing. You look great. I appreciate it. And then my body fat percentage highest that I can remember was like 38% and 17% today. That's badass, dude. That's fucking sick, man.
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