The Jason Levin Show

Shane Levine is the founder of product design studio Turbo LabsNico Muoio is the founder of e-commerce optimization agency Bottomless Labs(00:20) Our weird high school entrepreneurship stories(05:30) How Shane made bucks with viral iPod wallpapers(06:40) Why nostalgia design works, and when it doesn’t(08:20) MVPs are dead: you only get one shot now(09:50) How AI tools raised the floor for design(1...

I talked to my homie Adam Faris, digital creator and the king of sports content. He started out posting NBA 2K TikTok memes and ended up in unexpected places such as Aston Martin Formula 1 garage and working with Playboy.(00:45) First viral TikTok: NBA 2K bets during COVID(04:12) Why Twitter/X is a broken app with the world’s best network(07:21) Making his first dollar $100 from content(09:28) Get...

I talked to founder, investor, and all-around amazing guy Troy Osinoff. Troy built and sold MakeAGIF at 19, then went on to do other stuff from publishing a book to investing in MrBeast, the Charlotte Hornets, Moonpay, and more(00:41) Building the top #1 GIF site at 19 with(03:07) The janky hack that made MakeAGIF profitable(04:22) Investing in a studio where Kendrick recorded good kid, m. A.A.d c...

Meet the Unhinged Meme Queen and my wife Erica Levin, who left her corporate job and now diving into the tech startup biz(00:17) Leaving the corporate life to creative life(02:52) Getting viral on our wedding day tweet(05:57) Erica getting CENSORED on X (07:52) Explaining what I do to her parents (good luck)(09:42) Planning our wedding with AI like a true startup couple(11:15) Erica’s GLP-1 app an...

Varun Rana is a viral comedian who left his engineering job at Amazon to make sketch comedy online (00:39) Why is it so easy to make fun of tech?(03:51) The algo gives you infinite shots as long as you’re not dumb(07:01) My ‘fuck it, go big’ moment(09:37) getting unsolicited feedback from random internet kids who’ve never built anything(13:23) Explaining to my dad that YouTube is now modern TV cha...

Jared Zoneraich is the founder PromptLayer, the first platform built for prompt engineers(00:45) The secret sauce behind prompting(06:54) “Intelligence is cheap as fuck now”(12:45) Remember when the whole internet dunked on prompt engineering?(18:40) Talking on the phone with your users and being friends with them(22:37) That one time Jared and I built a bot to talk to dead people during my bachel...

Meet my homies and the mysterious co-founders of Faceless.video: Alex Steinberg and Jacob Seeger (00:30) Who the fuck are these mystery founders making millions? (04:47) The Faceless.video origin story (09:03) Their first users + shoutout to cousin Andrew (13:35) Waking up to angry emails, but kinda loving it? (15:55) Vibes vs. data: who actually won? (20:17) How TikTok ban almost gave Alex a pani...

David Keyes is the former spokesman to Israel's Prime Minister and pranker of dictators (00:38) What is ‘narrative warfare’ and how do you fight back(02:21) From pranking dictators to advising the Israeli PM(05:07) David’s wildest dictator pranks(09:20) Prepping Netanyahu to dodge media attacks(13:17) How startup founders can hit back at legacy media(17:26) Making the Israeli PM go viral on da...

Tyler Denk is the CEO and founder beehiiv, the all-in-one newsletter platform for creators. (00:26) Making money with newsletters: is that a thing?(05:16) How my newsletter became the home base for Memelord Technologies(06:14) The Big Desk Energy Costa Rica retreat(11:17) How I got a billionaire to sign up for my software(13:08) How I (almost) raised VC(17:11) Telling stories to get your team hype...

Molly O'Shea is a venture capitalist and founder of Sourcery, a newsletter about top VC deals and startup trends 02:51) Why every VC has a podcast(07:10) Why podcasting is a good excuse to meet cracked people(13:30) Internet friendship = best friendship(14:40) Molly's artist-to-VC pipeline(18:50) Learning about what VC does for the first time(22:00) Our high school side hustle stories(24:40) Why g...

Jack Kuveke is a GP at Jabroni Capital. In this episode, Jason announces the exciting new startup he acquired. 00:00) I just acquired my first startup: a social network for gooners (03:15) Recruiting college students to log their goons (05:04) Business idea: branding for terrorist organizations (13:31) What if Bryan Johnson started recruiting for ISIS? (15:24) Is your CEO a fraud? This AI tool wil...

Katelyn Bourgoin is the "Customer Whisperer" and author of popular marketing newsletter "Why People Buy" (00:39) How to make strangers online trust you (05:27) Why you should never hide your flaws on the internet (10:31) The marketers AI anxiety (12:27) Why micro software is killing it (17:30) Claude vs. OpenAI: who has better marketing (22:51) The platforms Katelyn’s are bullish on (25:23) Why “b...

Meet my friend and the customer retention king Eli Weiss, VP of Retention Advocacy at Yotpo. (01:45) Black Friday fake “oopsie emails" (04:34) Are email marketing “best practices” just bullshit (07:07) How brands plan Black Friday campaigns (09:49) Why every human is a victim of marketing ploys (13:10) How my wife forced me to dress up for Hereticon (15:56) Idea: Bryan Johnson's Blueprint but for...

Ridd is the founder and creator of Figma Academy, where he teaches design tactics to thousands of designers (00:27) Growing an online course in 2024 (05:33) Selling to the big leagues: the enterprises (09:23) What sets the course creators apart? (10:58) Why cohort-based courses lead to fast burnout (14:04) Running his online biz with family, Godfather style (19:12) Design is the new marketing baby...

Tom Orbach is a viral meme marketer and Head of Growth at $23B cybersecurity startup Wiz (00:28) How do you go viral on LinkedIn? (03:28) “Founders are basically influencers” (05:18) Tom’s viral LinkedIn song (yes, I put it on this pod) (06:54) Understanding the memes = understanding the industry (08:15) Tom’s “Meme Battle” strategy (09:17) The rise of “mini tools” (yes, it’s about my penis) (16:0...

Eric Bahn is the co-founder and General Partner of venture capital firm Hustle Fund (00:00) Why should VCs care about content? (04:28) Why Eric invested his personal money into a 14-year-old founder (09:24) Hustle Fund’s content playbook secret sauce (11:50) The internet content Rorschach test (13:16) Building a content-to-community funnel (14:58) LPs to Eric: “Why are you tweeting ridiculous stuf...

Meet Kevin Xu, founder of the social stock trading app AfterHour . (00:29) Are we still sleeping on Reddit? (01:27) Growing a subreddit from scratch (06:12) Reddit promotion tactics (without getting downvoted) (10:15) How meme stocks is the name of the finance game (12:39) Learning stock trading with memes (17:14) Making $8 MILLION from YOLO trades (22:37) Is Reddit currently shooting themselves i...

Paul Millerd is back on the pod. Paul is the author of Pathless Path and recently published his new book, Good Work: Reclaiming Your Inner Ambition (00:35) Confessions of a workaholic (03:34) Does work always have to suck a little? (06:00) What happens if you just don’t do stuff? (08:30) Paul’s pickup line - “I want to build a life not centered around work” (10:20) Why I fired my ghostwriting clie...

Meet Dani Grant, co-founder and CEO of Jam. For the past couple of years, Dani and I have been teaming up to grow Jam through some unhinged marketing campaigns. (01:08) Why is marketing a dirty word for developers (03:55) Is self-promotion bad? (07:34) Calibrating Jam’s brand voice (07:59) Is building in public even worth it? (12:31) “Thousands of people signed up, and no one used it” (14:54) Seth...

Meet Alex Lieberman, co-founder of Morning Brew. Alex co-founded Morning Brew and sold it for $75M to Business Insider. (00:46) Dirty Jobs LARP-ing (06:07) Outfit Mix-n-Match platform (08:11) Does Zuck have a stylist? (10:32) Post-Covid Rebrand Power Rankings (12:25) Rent-a-Stripe Dashboard (14:40) Bullshit MRR Detector (15:21) Handkerchief…but for your ass (16:40) Hairspray for dudes (18:31) Dude...

I did my first standup show, where I asked important questions like: "Why doesn't Subway have strippers?" and "How good was Jeffrey Epstein at business?"#standupcomedy #techbro

Jack Kuveke is a fundraising coach and founder of Jabroni Capital⁠⁠ (01:08) Awkward silence filler-as-a-service (03:46) Political trading card game (06:09) Agent Levin: CIA's next top asset? (07:59) Uber for bald eagle (10:34) Putting QR code on the moon (12:56) Rent-a-baby for Instagram clout (14:57) Launch House: Albanian edition (15:42) Mormon sales seminars (21:03) Body count detector AR g...

Ellen Fishbein is the co-founder of Altamira Studio, a modern day book publisher specializing in short books. (00:40) Why people still buy books (03:40) How Amazon kept rejecting my book (07:51) Memes as a legit marketing strategy (09:11) "You're an investigative journalist on crack" (10:42) My book marketing strategy (18:52) Do you actually need a personal brand? (23:09) Trying to b...

Derek Sivers is the author of 5 books and founder of CD Baby, a company he sold for $22M in 2008. (01:42) Change your framing = change your life (07:50) Picking “useful beliefs” (and what they are) (16:16) Why “America is getting anti-capitalism” might not be true (19:11) Death as the ultimate motivator (21:38) How Derek’s life changed after selling CD Baby (23:46) Why you should do things that ar...

Sasha Kaletsky is the co-founder of Creator Ventures and early investor at email platform beehiiv (00:34) Why Sasha invested in beehiiv (03:58) beehiiv vs Substack: which one's better? (07:11) Investing in “TikTok but for dating” (12:08) AGI: real or just hype? (14:43) “AI will actually make us busier!” (17:44) Universal Basic Income: brilliant or busted? (22:25) Is it getting harder for VCs t...