Steven Pope

I'm having a hard time piecing together how he got to where he did.

And I'm trying to go back in time and figure it out.

So I've struggled.

So I asked AI, how did he get so big?

What was the breakthrough moment?

And he didn't blow up from a single viral clip so much as the slow grind from 2017 to a big inflection point around 2020.

And they shifted to high-end video and treated it like a full media company.

And so every overnight success takes a decade.

And in the case of Steven, it was five years, but still.

Interesting to see that.

I had a similar inflection point in 2020 for me.

I've been grinding daily videos almost from 2018 to 2020, epidemic hits.

All of a sudden, everybody wants to sell on Amazon.

Big explosion moment.

Everybody's watching my content.

My content went haywire.

After that.

All right.

So early grind, 2017 to 19 home office, cheap mic, 45 listeners per episode, editing himself in garage band.

For a few years, essentially a side project, mostly audio, low production, gradual organic growth.