Ryan Holiday

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586 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 24 Jul

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Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha: Entrepreneurship and Self-Improvement Podcast · Ryan Holiday: Think Like a Stoic, Timeless Leadership Principles for Modern Entrepreneurs | Leadership | YAPClassic · 24 Jul 2026 podcast

And so I talk about this in my first book, which is about media manipulation.

You know, you can feed a monster

And it starts off really small and friendly, but then it becomes this big, scary, dangerous thing.

And then maybe it eats you.

And I think that that definitely happened at American Apparel.

Yeah, I remember when Elon Musk took over Twitter and he eliminated the verified check mark, right?

That day, a sort of a prankster created a fake account for Eli Lilly, the drug company, and he put out a tweet that said, insulin will now be free.

And their market cap dropped billions of dollars in an instant.

And so what I was talking about in that book is the way that on the one hand, this sort of exciting and unregulated world of social media and new media and all these tools, it makes it really easy to break through the noise and to stand out and to create a brand for nothing.

It also creates a lot of vulnerabilities if you have a big and valuable brand to be attacked, to screw up, to have things that are not true get spread about you.

And so...

So, yeah, what I was trying to do in that book is kind of tear back the curtain and go like, look, this is how it really works.

And this is probably not an ideal system for anyone.

And my goal in writing that book was really like I just didn't that's not what I wanted to do with my life.

And so I took all the things that I knew that I'd seen that I'd sort of read about and I sort of put it all in.

I just said, look, this is it.

And that was part of it for me.

That was my first step towards becoming a professional writer, which is what I'd always wanted to do.

Of course, a tool is a tool.

You can use an ax to chop down a tree or you can use it to murder someone, right?

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