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Neil Patel

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Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Neil Patel Risked His Parents’ Life Savings… Then Built a $100M Marketing Empire. Here’s How He Did It

He lived in a normal house, saved up tons of money from being an anesthesiologist over the years, probably bought a home for like 400 grand.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Neil Patel Risked His Parents’ Life Savings… Then Built a $100M Marketing Empire. Here’s How He Did It

I don't know what the price is, but let's call it four or 500 grand in, you know, somewhere in LA or Orange County.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Neil Patel Risked His Parents’ Life Savings… Then Built a $100M Marketing Empire. Here’s How He Did It

It adds up over time.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Neil Patel Risked His Parents’ Life Savings… Then Built a $100M Marketing Empire. Here’s How He Did It

You build up equity.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Neil Patel Risked His Parents’ Life Savings… Then Built a $100M Marketing Empire. Here’s How He Did It

You don't spend much money.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Neil Patel Risked His Parents’ Life Savings… Then Built a $100M Marketing Empire. Here’s How He Did It

You drive a Toyota.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Neil Patel Risked His Parents’ Life Savings… Then Built a $100M Marketing Empire. Here’s How He Did It

You'll save up a lot of cash over the years.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Neil Patel Risked His Parents’ Life Savings… Then Built a $100M Marketing Empire. Here’s How He Did It

He ended up giving us the line of credit on his house of, I believe it was $200,000 at the time.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Neil Patel Risked His Parents’ Life Savings… Then Built a $100M Marketing Empire. Here’s How He Did It

And we used that to get Crazy Egg going and get it into a place that was working out.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Neil Patel Risked His Parents’ Life Savings… Then Built a $100M Marketing Empire. Here’s How He Did It

But we got the 200 grand and we had to turn around the business.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Neil Patel Risked His Parents’ Life Savings… Then Built a $100M Marketing Empire. Here’s How He Did It

We used the 200 grand.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Neil Patel Risked His Parents’ Life Savings… Then Built a $100M Marketing Empire. Here’s How He Did It

It still wasn't enough though, but that's really all we had.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Neil Patel Risked His Parents’ Life Savings… Then Built a $100M Marketing Empire. Here’s How He Did It

But that was his only son and he married my sister.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Neil Patel Risked His Parents’ Life Savings… Then Built a $100M Marketing Empire. Here’s How He Did It

I only have one sibling.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Neil Patel Risked His Parents’ Life Savings… Then Built a $100M Marketing Empire. Here’s How He Did It

My parents also had around 200 and something thousand dollars in their life savings and

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Neil Patel Risked His Parents’ Life Savings… Then Built a $100M Marketing Empire. Here’s How He Did It

I think it was around 250.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Neil Patel Risked His Parents’ Life Savings… Then Built a $100M Marketing Empire. Here’s How He Did It

We started pulling like tranches of like 50 grand at a time because my sister and I were on their bank accounts.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Neil Patel Risked His Parents’ Life Savings… Then Built a $100M Marketing Empire. Here’s How He Did It

So we kind of didn't ask.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Neil Patel Risked His Parents’ Life Savings… Then Built a $100M Marketing Empire. Here’s How He Did It

It's more like, you know, they say ask for forgiveness, not permission.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Neil Patel Risked His Parents’ Life Savings… Then Built a $100M Marketing Empire. Here’s How He Did It

So we started taking it.