Jeff Krauss
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129 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Feb 2025
Jeff Krauss’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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the actual good things in this world that you can look forward to.
I appreciate that. And I would love to come back on. It's been awesome. And by the way, you're an awesome host. I really do mean that. And I do appreciate you having me on today. Seriously.
Patience can be a dream killer. If you don't have patience and you're an entrepreneur, that's really bad.
I have failed many times in my career. The only difference between me and maybe somebody else is that I always got back on the horse. Ignore the noise because people who thrive, they have to jump over hurdles to get where they are. If you can stay humble and still do your thing with confidence, you'll be great.
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Well, first and foremost, thank you for having me on today. It's great to be here. To give you a little bit of a snippet, I did grow up in Long Island, Was and still am a very introverted, shy person, I guess you could say. And when I was in college, my friends and I would always go to nightclubs. And I would drink a little bit, but not too much, enough to drive home kind of thing.
So we would be online at a club, you know, and it's just me and my guy friends and we're just pay to get in, whatever. And one day we're just standing there and this promoter that we knew from back home walks up, cuts the line, walks in with all these women. And my friend just says to me, who's more extroverted, Jeff. We got to do that. I go, do what? He says, we have to promote parties.
I said, no, I'm not. No, that's that's just not not for me. So week after week, we would just hang out having dinner or whatever. And he would just say to me, Jeff, when are we doing it? Do what? We got to promote. We got to promote parties. It would just be ongoing week after week. So finally, I said to him, OK, I will call my sister and ask her if she knows any promoters. I'm sure she does.
I will try this once. If it goes well, I'm open to doing it again. So he says, OK, fine. We'll try it once. But I'm telling you, this is going to be big. You'll see. We're going to get a lot of women. And we're going to make all this money. Blah, blah, blah, whatever. Okay, fine. So I said, just settle down. We'll try it. So we start calling our phone book.
My sister actually did introduce me to a promoter. We threw a party. It just so happened that that venue was like the hottest place in New York at the time. So we're calling our entire phone book. And my friend is calling people from tennis camp he hadn't spoken to in 10 years. I'm calling people from high school and everybody. We're throwing a party.
We're throwing the party, the biggest party ever. Well, I show up to the door and the bouncer says to me, okay, let me see your ID. I show an ID. Now I'm underage. I always get into nightclubs. Never a problem. The bouncer looks at it and says, this isn't you. So I'm now standing outside freaking out because we have all these people coming and My friend is over 21.
He gets into the club and he starts raising hell. Starts screaming, me and my partner busted our asses to fill this venue and blah, blah, blah. And he's going crazy. The guy that was running the place said, listen, I will let him in, but he cannot drink. Okay, fine. So I get in. There's hundreds of people trying to get in.
A lot of our friends are outside or people that we haven't even seen in a while. And some of them didn't get in. We didn't get paid because they didn't count a lot of the people. My sister's friend knew the door person. So anybody that she brought, they counted for them or whatever. And yes, it used to go by a tally system.
That's how it would go, is how promoters would get paid if you weren't the top promoter that has the venue. And we got into an argument with the promoter. We wanted to get paid. We worked very hard. And he wouldn't pay us. But I saw the experience people had. And everybody had such a great time that actually did get in.
So I said, look, let's look into and see if we could find other promoters that are maybe not working at the hottest club, but it's still good enough. And let's try and work with somebody a little bit nicer that will give us the authority and the rope that we need to do our thing. And I ended up connecting with somebody named Donnie and Tina.
They were great to me and they showed me the ropes and I just wanted to learn more and see if I could see this thing through. I had the itch, so to speak.
Oh, it was hard. Because remember, I'm calling people that I'm friendly with or whatever. Some of them I am close friends with or was close friends with at the time. But I'm the guy that's off to the right. And then when he sees the person and they have a great conversation, I'm like that guy. I'm not the guy in the middle that's talking to everybody, if that makes sense.
I'm trying to give the best visual to this. Yeah.
Once I started promoting parties... I got the creative brain, so to speak, to want to throw events. And I wanted to run my own nightclub and do all these things that were more on the operational side of it. Even though I was still front and center in a way, I wanted to expand. And I was thinking about what could be. I was imagining what could be, right? So I did open up a lounge.
And it worked at first, then it didn't work. And then whatever happens, it didn't work in the end. But I learned a lot from that. And after that, I continued to just throw parties. Venues would hire me as a consultant to bring on promoters and book events and stuff like that. But it wasn't as much. I wasn't the guy that was sitting there at a table anymore with tons of people around.
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