How Blockworks Bootstrapped To A +$20M/yr Crypto Empire

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Episode 500

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Episode 500: Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) talks to Jason Yanowitz (https://twitter.com/JasonYanowitz) founder of Blockworks, which covers crypto news, information and analytics. Jason shares the revenue numbers behind Blockworks, the secret to hosting profitable events, and why he would put 100% of his portfolio in crypto. 

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Intro

(1:45) Blockworks revenue and profitability

(4:00) How to crush it with a conference

(10:00) Conferences are really 3-day marketplaces

(15:00) Jason's accidental MLM success story

(23:00) The difference between MLMs and pyramid schemes

(27:00) How Sam Ovens inspired Blockworks

(30:00) The fallacy of founder origin stories

(35:00) How Sam is optimizing his life

(42:00) Business Idea: Beehiiv for Conferences

(45:00) Business Idea: Hair transplants for the masses

(48:00) Blockworks Research

(55:00) Where is Jason putting his money?

(1:00:00) How Sam thinks about crypto

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Links:

• Blockworks - https://blockworks.co/

• Blockworks Research - https://www.blockworksresearch.com/

• Blockworks Twitter - https://twitter.com/blockworks_

• Jason’s Twitter - https://twitter.com/JasonYanowitz

• Sam Ovens Consulting company - https://www.consulting.com/

• Peter Turchin - https://peterturchin.com/

• beehiiv - https://www.beehiiv.com/

• Eventbrite - https://www.eventbrite.com/

• Splash - https://splashthat.com/

• Hopin acquisition - https://tinyurl.com/2zn2kk3p

• ‘Elon Musk,’ by Walter Isaacson - https://tinyurl.com/bde53vpr

• Jeff Bezo’s Regret Minimization Framework - https://tinyurl.com/m34hmyfk

Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro,

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Published on 1 year, 5 months ago