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Solo episode reflecting on 80+ businesses started and broken, introducing a GRIT framework for the parts of entrepreneurship nobody talks…

Chris recounts using Craigslist scraping for years to spot opportunities, connect buyers and sellers, and build businesses, one of which…

Chris explains how a Buc-ee's gas station visit turned into Texas Snacks (texassnax.com), an online business reselling Buc-ee's snacks and…

Guest Mindi Reinke buys pallets of school books for as little as $1 and resells them on eBay for roughly $5,000 in revenue, using ChatGPT…

Chris demonstrates demand-first product building: poll real business owners on which website features they would pay for, analyze responses…

Will Cannon, a non-technical serial entrepreneur behind UpLead (B2B lead data) and Signaturely (a deliberately simple DocuSign…

Solo episode on validating business ideas cheaply: changing a product's form factor to unlock demand, and using Higgsfield AI image/video…

Solo episode on buying gold bars from Costco and flipping them online, stacking credit-card cash back, Costco perks and rewards for profit.…

Guest Jeff from Houston built a concrete-leveling drop-servicing business making about $1,000 profit per job in his first three months,…

Chris explains database reactivation, a service where you reach out to a small business's old customer list for fast wins, built on…

Guest Spencer Scott built a trash-service business to roughly $50K/month at ~40% margins with almost no out-of-pocket money. Used Facebook…

Guest Hunter Schenewark went from zero experience to $46K in his first nine weeks running a striping and seal-coating business in a small…

Solo build-along showing how to launch a profitable local newsletter from scratch in real time: pick a city, set up Beehiiv, design the…

Will Cannon, who has sent over 100 million cold emails and grew a company to $1M ARR almost entirely from cold outreach, breaks down what…

Chris and Connor Gross riff on taking proven products and changing the form factor: AG1-style gummies, Starface pimple stickers, stain…

Solo tutorial on self-hosting N8N on a cheap Hostinger VPS (~$5.99/mo) to run unlimited AI automations without cloud plan fees. Koerner…

Marcus Lemonis discusses the behind-the-scenes reality of The Profit, an IRS audit, his social anxiety, regret about not having children,…

Alex Hansen, 'The Shelf Dude,' turned a DIY garage shelving project into a business netting $15,000/month at 70-80% margins, selling…

Interview with Tim MacLeod, the 'Full Time Flipper', who turned couch flipping into a six-figure business doing roughly $15K/month without…

Chris and Sam Thompson use a random word generator to brainstorm $20K/month business ideas, landing on an Office-themed chess set, a…

Guest Shannon Jean returns to discuss live selling on Whatnot, Poshmark Live and eBay Live. He explains buying truckloads of brand-new…

Chris and Brandon race to build a money-making web app in under an hour using Emergent (vibe coding). A random word generator picks…

Solo episode reviewing Bolt v2 by building a PR automation tool end-to-end in about an hour with no code, then positioning the same pattern…

Chris repeats his 56-minute business challenge, this time going after high-ticket roofing contractors: he uses Outscraper to find 100 local…