Tune in as Girdley and Chris talk several topics including Dominion, business ideas, twitter blue checks and more Fraud..

Alex Cohen and Michael Girdley talk crime.

Chris Bakke and Michael Girdley talk about tech news - surprise!

Chris Bakke and Michael Girdley talk about venture studios.

Alex Cohen and Chris Bakke launch a hat contest because Frank founder Charlie Javis committed fraud.

Alex Cohen, Chris Bakke and Michael Girdley talk about yet another Canadian Ryan.

Alex Cohen, Chris Bakke and Michael Girdley talk TikTok after the Congressional hearing.

Alex Cohen and Chris Bakke discuss the sale of Ryan Reynold's company, Mint Mobile, to T-Mobile for $1.35b and the broader implications this will have on celebrities in the business world.

Bakke, Girdley, and Alex Cohen discuss the fallout from the SVB bank failures and throw in a few zingers about bad actors over the weekend.

Joined by special guest, Turner Novak of Banana Capital, Bakke, Girdley, and Alex Cohen review the mess that is Silicon Valley Bank.

Welcome to episode 10! Girdley and Alex Cohen review some news and catch up. Like we do every week.

Welcome to episode 9! Girdley and Alex Cohen review some news. Like we do every week. --- What Happens When You Stop Taking Ozempic? https://www.wsj.com/articles/ozempic-wegovy-stop-weight-loss-ea925ae1 Salesforce has reportedly been paying Matthew McConaughey $10 million a year to act as a 'creative adviser' despite laying off 8,000 employees last…

Alex Cohen, Girdley and Chris Bakke are back for more hijinks. -------- Ozy Media saga - CEO arrested: https://www.wsj.com/articles/ozy-media-ceo-carlos-watson-arrested-after-a-former-executive-pleads-guilty-to-fraud-355e9f89?mod=hp_lead_pos3 Facebook and Instagram are testing selling you blue checks for $12 a month https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/…

An entertaining recap of the week's top stories in Tech/Business. Hosts: @anothercohen , @ChrisJBakke & @girdley What happened this week: Bing goes off the rails Twitch streamers use AI to do battle against other streamers Amazon does retail (Again) Walmart closes tech offices More private data hacked — Thanks to our sponsors! At America On Tech, w…

An entertaining recap of the week's top stories in Tech/Business. Hosts: @anothercohen , @ChrisJBakke & @girdley What happened this week: Google’s “much-hyped” new AI Chatbot fails at demo, and Alphabet shares lose $150B Meme stocks: Ryan Cohen Takes Stake in Nordstrom Elon is on the news again: Neuralink is accused of moving hazardous pathogens af…

An entertaining recap of the week's top stories in Tech/Business. Hosts: @anothercohen , @ChrisJBakke & @girdley What happened this week: Google lays off 1,800, including 27 massage therapists Bed Bath & Bankruptcy is still losing money: Now closing 87 stores Let’s discuss the Adani Group Scam: Losing $92B ChatGPT is the most popular app across tec…

An entertaining recap of the week's top stories in Tech/Business. Hosts: @anothercohen , @ChrisJBakke & @girdley What happened this week: Did Stripe miss the 2020 opportunity to go public? They Finally Noticed: US DOJ sues Google for being an Ad monopoly TikTok Warns Remote Employees They Risk Losing Jobs Microsoft is investing $10bn in OpenAI Is C…

An entertaining recap of the week's top stories in Tech/Business. Hosts: @anothercohen , @ChrisJBakke & @girdley What happened this week: Apple burned cash again; this time Goldman Sachs paid a total of $1.2 B for Apple Card Why is Elon Musk’s Twitter all over the news? Is he the new Trump? The controversy around OpenAI: Did they hire global labor …

We get it. You don't want to read the news each week, but you still want to know the top 3 or 4 big things that happened in tech, start-up, or business? Our solution is this podcast. Hosts: @anothercohen , @ChrisJBakke & @girdley What happened this week: Subway is selling itself: Who wants to buy the worst sandwiches on the block? SBF is back! Subs…

We get it. You don't want to read the news each week, but you still want to know the top 3 or 4 big things that happened in tech, start-up, or business? Our solution is this podcast. Hosts: @anothercohen , @ChrisJBakke & @girdley In this episode, we talked about the following: The white-collar recession & massive Lay-offs The story behind the Amazo…

Michael Girdley (@Girdley) is joined by Nick Gray (@NickGrayNews), we had the first face-to-face interview as we talk about what it’s like to be an entrepreneur in their 30s, and shared some tips on publishing a book and hosting events! ----- Do you love The Michael Girdley Show and want to see our smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. D…

Michael Girdley (@Girdley) is joined by James Camp (@JamesonCamp), who grew up in New York City and is a Jack of All Trades, especially on marketing strategy, monetization, and website flipping. We talk about how he lost $100,000 trying to acquire a firm, the downside of financial touts, and stock buying schemes he's encountered. ----- Do you love …

Michael Girdley (@Girdley) is joined by Dave Kline (@dklineii), from Bridgewater & Moodys Analytics and a Management Accelerator, we talk about management and leadership. We went through a bunch of topics and shared different insights on human nature, human nature, how to work yourself into being a new manager, the shift in hiring overseas, and mor…

Michael Girdley (@Girdley) is joined by Joe Wilson (@_joewilson), a Deep Tech Investor who runs a VC Fund in LA, we talk about a lot of interesting things like the works under deep tech and bioscience investing, how Joe acted to the COVID Pandemic 2020 as a scientist and also went through defining what a shady business is or not. ----- Do you love …

Michael Girdley (@Girdley) is joined by Linda Lebrun (@Substacklinda) to talk about her work at Substack: Focusing on emerging creators in the finance space. We also go about free and paid newsletters that are sent by email, who makes money doing what, advantages and disadvantages & compare these as a consumption tool to other platforms like YouTub…

Michael Girdley (@Girdley) is joined by Tai Rattigan (@XOptimiser), we talk about two major topics of interest. We talk about how partnerships work (Which is something that's a total black box domain that Tai extensively covered during the hour. Then the second thing we talked about was making money at paid communities. He operates a paid community…

Michael Girdley (@Girdley) is joined by Rohun Jauhar (@RohunJauhar), we talk about Real Estate, his specialty which is apartments in Florida and Texas. Then we went into a bunch of life and self-help kind of stuff as well as hiring virtual assistants and how to make the leap from having a day job to becoming an entrepreneur. ----- Do you love The M…

Michael Girdley (@Girdley) is joined by Moses Kagan (@moseskagan) who is a real estate and private equity professional from Los Angeles, we talk about how real estate's different in California, how his strategy works there and somehow not in other places, and the effective interest rates on what people are doing with real estate. ----- * Do you lov…

Michael Girdley (@Girdley) is joined by Kyle O’ Hehir (@financeguy725) who runs a lending and real estate business from Connecticut, we talk about having bought dozens, if not more, different units of real estate with his partner. Kyle is also a really pretty inspiring high energy guy. ----- * Do you love The Michael Girdley Show and want to see ou…

Michael Girdley @Girdley is joined by @barrettjoneill we talk about his journey into entrepreneurship, starting as a competitive athlete, the differences & similarities, and mindsets. Also, we talk about his two businesses, he runs a digital agency, and then secondarily runs a storage business. We also had a great exchange on global workforces and …

Michael Girdley @Girdley is joined by Justin Hill (@jahlawfirm), a lawyer in San Antonio. We talked about how personal injury works and discussed three business ideas. Not only that, but we also talk about our San Antonio experiences, the history, and projects on how to improve the city’s lifestyle. ----- * Do you love The Michael Girdley Show and …

Michael Girdley @Girdley is joined by Kevin Dahlstrom (@Camp4), we talk about how to become multi-dimensional, get to identify the cliches and what it is like when GenX-ers joins in the Twitter Community, how leaders and CEOs work to be where they are now. Kevin also talks about his banking app business, Swell, that grew over time and became an LP …

Michael Girdley @Girdley is joined by Pine Baron (@SpiritofPines) the first anonymous guest on the podcast. We talked about his journey to develop wealth and get into real estate buying, why Pine wished to be anonymous on Twitter, why people trust corporations so much these days and which corporations we trust. ----- Thanks to our sponsor! * Harbor…

Michael Girdley @Girdley is joined by Jesse Pujji @jspujji from St. Louis, we talk about all the cool stuff that he does, especially the Venture Studio that he’s running. It is a business that incubates and creates other businesses. It talks about having to reboot your business every six to nine months and the coolness of the Sikh, the religion of …

Michael Girdley @Girdley is joined by Eric Jorgenson @EricJorgenson, author of the book Navalmanack. We talk about his new book, generational differences, we recap the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting, why he takes photos of sandwiches and puts them on social media, his career and how he's established a career as an information dealer. Subscribe t…

Michael Girdley (@Girdley) is joined by Tyler Tringas (@tylertringas), Calm Fund GP & Founder, to talk about how the calm fund works as an alternative to VC, lessons running in-person & online events, why to live in CDMX, how to raise money as a founder, how to hire as a tech founder, and much more! ----- Thanks to our sponsor! * Harbor Capital is …

Michael Girdley (@Girdley) is joined by Levi Benkert (@Levijameshere) to talk about Harbor Capital, hiring architects overseas, his real estate endeavors, starting Verde Beef in Ethiopia (& his story with the Prime Minister), fundraising: tricks & techniques, outlook on America’s future, and more. ----- * Do you love The Michael Girdley Show and wa…

Michael Girdley (@Girdley) is joined by Steve Ressler (@steveressler), we talk about building the Brydon Group to combine Private Equity with Entrepreneurship through acquisition, the sentiment flip on social media, how much attention should you pay to Social Media, networking & learnings at annual shareholder meetings, and much more. Do you enjoy …

Michael Girdley (@Girdley) is joined by Chris Bakke (@ChrisJBakke) to talk about why hiring is broken, good & bad ways to hire, LinkedIn vs. Twitter: content and audience differences, finding the balance between good content and shitposting on Twitter, www.laskie.com, and much more! ----- * Do you love The Michael Girdley Show and want to see our s…

Michael Girdley (@Girdley) is joined by Meghan Skornia (@MeghanSkornia) to talk about urban planning, zoning codes, the Great Springs project, affordable housing, why you should live in San Antonio, and much more. ----- * Do you love The Michael Girdley Show and want to see our smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. * Do you enjoy our con…

Michael Girdley (@Girdley) is joined by Jay Vasantharajah (@jayvasdigital) to talk about money as a taboo in the tech space, pricing power & how it affects business; the “Top Talent” contradiction, hiring overseas, Businesses being alive through systems, Twitter, and much more! Jay is a great thinker and even a better person, hope you enjoy this on…

Michael Girdley (@Girdley) is joined by John Wilson (@WilsonCompanies) to talk about the HoldCoConf, building a personal brand, the relevance of joining a business community, the plumbing industry, and much more. How do you make a repeatable, scalable, unbeatable Hiring system? Michael Girdley (@Girdley) walks us through his take on hiring. Save on…

Michael Girdley (@Girdley) joins The Next Gen Podcast (@TheNextGenPod) to talk about how he takes business concepts and turns it into reality by incubating or putting up businesses, shares his stories in his entrepreneurial journey, experiences, struggles & wisdom gathered throughout his career. We liked the episode so much that we decided to post …

Michael Girdley (@Girdley) is joined by @buggeroaf to talk about YCombinator, the start-up accelerator. They discuss experiences, benefits & requirements to participate in the ecosystem, transactional vs. emotional engagement, the importance of timing, and much more.-----* Do you love Unusual Profits and want to see our smiling faces? Subscribe to …

Michael Girdley (@Girdley) is joined by Matt Willes (@SkolCapital) to talk about Mezzanine lending. How does it work? When is it useful? How is a loan structured? We talk about Willes Capital, the industry, common practices, risk management, and much more. ----- * Do you love Unusual Profits and want to see our smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtu…

New Business Ideas episode! Michael Girdley (@Girdley) is joined by Shinghi Detlefson (twitter: @shinghiD) and Hayden Cohen (Twitter: @haydenjcohen) and pitch each other business ideas and schemes. ----- * Do you love Unusual Profits and want to see our smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. * Do you enjoy our content? Rate our show! * Fo…

How do you make a repeatable, scalable, unbeatable Hiring system? Michael Girdley (@Girdley) walks us through his take on hiring. Save on resources in advance by hiring the best fits for each role. ----- * Do you love Unusual Profits and want to see our smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. * Do you enjoy our content? Rate our show! * Fo…

Jesse Tinsley (Twitter: @JesseTinsley) joins me (Twitter: @Girdley) in the show to talk about the his story on founding JobMobz (jobmobz.com), the recruiting business and specifically his niche as a recruiter for the tech industry. (1:07) Jesse tells us what he does and his background. (2:58) Recruiting models and recruiting as a service. (4:14) Pr…

New Business Ideas episode! Me and Shinghi Detlefson (twitter: @shinghiD) pitch each other business ideas and schemes. (1:09) 1 credit card that optimizes the benefits when making a purchase (4:50) Part time businesses: Advantages/disadvantages in janitorial services & day cares (7:32) Entering the real estate business through doggy day cares (8:47…

New Business Ideas episode! Me and Shinghi Detlefson (twitter: @shinghiD) pitch each other business ideas and schemes. (1:09) $3k/month accountability gym (5:19) A screening service so you know which sport your kid should specialize in (10:29) "Construction Uncle" to validate construction bid pricing (16:25) Monetizing super-niche but valuable cont…