Michael Rubin
speaker
330 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard May 2025
Michael Rubin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And you're too focused on the individual win, even though I was right. You're too focused on the individual win and not focused on just having that right long-term partnership. And that was a good moment because I chilled out. I took a deep breath. Even though I didn't agree with what they were saying, I did it the way they wanted. And it paid dividends.
I think when I was starting, maybe even until 10 years ago, I was a work hard, play hard person. I really don't like... People see my life, they see like the five fun things I do a year and they think I'm super fun. Like, I don't value... Like, I just value building my company. It sounds like obsessive and people are going to be like, he's a fucking weirdo.
Like, all he cares about, you know, is building his company. But like, you know... I'm less concerned. Like the time I used to have to go out, you know, like I think building a great company is fun. Yes. So I don't, I think the things that people would say are fun. You know, maybe I care less about now.
Well, for sure, it's got to go back to health. I want to do this in 50 years. I want to do it in a healthy way in 50 years. So I think I really have a huge respect for health. I'm spending time on that. I'm focusing on that. I value relationships. I really care about my relationships. I think they're really important to me. I think I wouldn't be who I am without those relationships.
So I think I feel fortunate to have so many incredible relationships. I want to respect them, give to those relationships. Those are probably two things I think.
Honored to be with you.
Thank you to the amazing fans. You guys are the best fans in the world.
I can't have it, right? You can't have it. If anyone gets it, I'm getting it. He's got one already. You guys can share.
I mean, this is a incredible Cactus Jack collab with Travis Scott. He makes some of the, you know, coolest merch in the world. And, you know, he's such a big WWE fan. And, you know, WrestleMania coming. He's like, I'm going to drop the coolest, you know, coolest merch in the world. And. People have been staying in line for a long time to get this stuff. I love it.
I think we were just talking past each other, but I knew there were two Cactus Jacks. I knew we had the Trav Cactus Jack, and we have the Cactus Jack that we all know here.
It does. You know, for me, you know, I think a lot of people know my story. I barely made it out of high school, legitimately.
Yeah, well, if anyone thinks they were a bad student, I was worse. I legitimately got a 780 on my SATs combined.
So for me... You know, I always think you kind of gravitate to what you're good at. And I was a terrible student in high school. I was actually a pretty shitty athlete too. But so the way I learn, it's just great people around me. So Trav's like a brother to me. And how did you guys meet? Actually, James Harden, who used to play for the Sixers, but has been a long-time good friend of mine.
I met Trav through James years ago. And one day, Trav actually said to me, Hey, when you're in L.A., come through my crib. I want to show you what I'm up to. And it was like a real... Game changing moment for me because I always thought about Travis Scott, the artist. I didn't really think about him as the real product visionary. And I went to his house.
It's like, hey, let me show this collab I'm doing with McDonald's. Let me show what I'm doing with Nike. Let me show you what I'm doing with, you know, video games. Let me show you what I want to do in art. Let me show you what I'm doing. with all these different brands. It was kind of amazing to me. I realized just how much he really drives culture.
I'd say today there's probably not a person in the entire world that drives culture more than Travis Scott. So it's been a great partnership, a great friendship. By the way, he's headlining Coachella last weekend. Tonight, I watched the performance online. It was so spectacular. So it's fun to learn from each other, and I think that's what we all should do.
Eight years old. I was eight. I tell you, somebody just asked me this yesterday. I'm like, look. You know, I grew up with like every learning disability in the planet. Like I could barely speak, I couldn't read, I dyslexic. I was like everything that could go wrong could go wrong. I was always told like, you suck at all these things. And like, I always did poorly in school.
I was always never a good athlete, but I loved to work as a kid. So eight years old, I'm selling, you know, trading cards, not to my friends, but to my friends' parents. I was selling like vegetable seeds door to door. When it would snow in Philadelphia,
I would like hire five kids to work for me and I would just sell the snow shoveling for like 20 bucks a driveway, you know, 35 years ago or 40 years ago. And, you know, I'd be paying him like, you know, a buck a driveway. So I just always had those entrepreneurial skills. And, you know. And what do you think inspired that? I think sometimes you're just born with it, you know.
My parents, my mom was a psychiatrist. My father was a veterinarian. My mom always tried to, like, make me a normal kid because she thought that's what would be best for me. He wasn't a normal kid. Yeah, I was not a normal kid. But I really just loved business from the time I was a little kid. It's funny because today it's normal to be a young entrepreneur.
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