The Jason Levin Show

Oren John is a brand marketing guru, an creator of consumer brand strategy newsletter HYPER (00:00) What makes a brand luxury? (08:04) "You can't just start a luxury brand" (13:21) Starting a "luxury newsletter" (22:10) Cracking the livestream code (should I start livestreaming?) (38:36) Is Burberry going down? (42:07) Should Burberry sponsors Lex Fridman? Jason Levin⁠⁠⁠ is...

Nat Eliason is the author of Crypto Confidential, where he talks about the WILD inside story of the crypto heyday. (00:34) Why the creator economy is fragile AF (05:50) Beating the "algorithm gods" (06:47) How Nat went viral by hacking BookTok (17:30) Why you shouldn't focus on "building an audience" (28:57) Nat's genius book marketing tactics (37:30) Building Strava, b...

Amanda Nielsen is a tech meme queen and founder of Thot Leader Labs. We talked about stupid startup ideas that might get me canceled: (01:41) Buying equity on Mars (02:32) Cringe: the dating app for thought leaders (04:11) Duolingo for men to talk about their feelings (06:11) DoorDash, but for strippers (07:02) Joe Rogan-as-a-service (08:50) Airplane cafes (13:35) Social media posts translator for...

Siqi Chen is a Silicon Valley investor and the founder of Runway, the finance platform you won't hate. (04:30) Why a company should start with a story (10:45) Hiring the executive producer of House of Cards as an advisor (15:20) How to avoid telling the same story as other startups (21:09) VR: Bullish or bearish? (26:30) Why good design is still underrated in startups (35:47) Investing in comp...

Jeremy Stern is the deputy editor of Tablet Magazine, who recently interviewed Palmer Luckey: American Anti-Hero and founder of the defense tech company Anduril Industries. (00:00) Palmer Luckey: Supervillain or Anti-Hero? (09:29) Why most tech journalism sucks so bad (19:37) The PR War against Israel and Zionism (26:14) Are we in the middle of an "algorithmic war"? (34:15) Why founders...

Cody Schneider is the co-founder of Swell AI and a silly startup idea generation machine. (00:00) Google Maps, but for crowds and crimes (02:28) Nature and Ayahuasca-as-a-service for tech bros (05:41) The "Nut Sack" prototype (07:28) Flights but with dogs (10:36) Joey Chestnut diet plan (12:07) Birdwatching social media app (14:27) For the degens: AI-powered horse betting coach (16:55) &...

Gabor Cselle is a serial founder, product builder, and creator of Choosy Chat. (00:00) Startup journey and the path to acquisition (07:24) Should you be able to choose your LLMs? (17:32) Why generating images with AI feels like gambling (25:08) Are we ready to automate creative work with AI? (30:55) Can AI make funny memes now?! (35:58) Will AI-created content ever take off? (43:18) AI friends: ya...

Randy Ginsburg is a founder with a mission to get you off your phones and live your life to the fullest. (01:53) "Bricking" your phone for digital wellness (09:48) The "Screen Time Conundrum" (17:51) Tools for managing your digital life (22:26) Can you actually make money as a digital minimalist? (34:17) How to use technology without getting addicted (42:36) The Rocks, Pebbles,...

Emil Michael was the Chief Business Officer at Uber where he was Travis Kalanick's right-hand man. Michael raised over $15B to help Uber grow into the $170B company. (00:00) Dealing with the "Taxi Mafia" in Italy (04:03) How Uber builds local teams from the ground up (09:56) Why founders should "go direct" (15:31) AI and the future of search (Perplexity???) (19:21) How Emil...

Nik Shevchenko is the founder of Based Hardware where he builds AI necklaces, glasses, and more. (00:00) Wtf is the AI Friend??? (02:55) Why should AI be Open-Source? (08:56) What cool stuff can the AI Friend do? (11:54) Hardware development (Jason shows his nutsack) (18:58) Privacy implications (KGB or nah?) (25:04) Future plans: smart glasses and brain-computer interface Jason Levin⁠⁠⁠ is a vira...

Bobby Ghoshal is the founder of Dupe.com, a viral app with 2m+ customers to help you find duplicates of furniture or clothes. (00:01) Wtf is Dupe?? (4:00) Bobby's genius $20 viral marketing on TikTok (8:01) "Accidentally" is the best hook ever (11:01) Owning words, slogans, and phrases (13:50) Viral metrics on Instagram + TikTok (16:45) Creator marketing with 15 separate accounts (25...

Emery Wells is the founder of ‪Frame.io which he sold for over $1B to Adobe. (01:32) Emery moves to NYC to be a filmmaker (7:19) Frame's launch goes VIRAL (12:22) Investments from Balaji and Aaron Levy (16:01) Fundraising advice (18:59) Selling software bottom-up (25:00) Writing online and building audiences (28:21) Scott Belsky's Implications (29:34) AI predictions (34:38) Emery's inv...

Steven Tey is the founder of Dub.co, an open-source 10x better version of Bit.ly. (00:39) How Steven hit #1 on Product Hunt (07:22) Founding Dub.co (09:47) Product Hunt launch hacks (15:32) Steven's Twitter hacks (20:04) Future of Dub.co Jason Levin⁠⁠⁠ is a viral marketer and Head of Growth at Product Hunt. Read Jason's ⁠weekly advice column on organic social media growth for startups⁠ . F...

Joshua Steinman is the founder of cybersecurity startup Galvanick and a former member of the National Security Council. (00:42) Biggest threats in USA (2:02) Factories getting hacked (05:45) 2024 Election (08:03) Working in White House (09:18) El Segundo (15:17) Should we ban TikTok??? (18:10) Why does China want to lessen US power? (25:45) The kids are stoned (28:23) Joshua's advice on Twitte...

Jordan Mix is a designer, engineer, and Partner at Late Checkout with Greg Isenberg. (00:43) How to work with your heroes (5:30) Buying and growing businesses at Late Checkout (10:39) You gotta take L's (15:40) Why I give away free books (17:06) Bullish on physical communities (22:21) Product Hunt growth & events strategy (25:32) Why you should be bullish on Twitter/X (28:30) Why I sold al...

Rajiv Ayyangar is the CEO of Product Hunt, the #1 place on the internet to launch and find cool products. (01:21) What is Y Combinator actually like? (6:50) "I did a handshake deal with Paul Graham) (10:30) YC Safe Note (15:22) Request for new products on Product Hunt (17:27) Rajiv's thoughts on AI (25:41) Jason talks growing the Product Hunt event flywheel (29:51) Rajiv gives 3 tips for...

Christian Kiel the VP of Marketing at Astranis Space and founder of  @1stPrinciplesFM  where he interviews deeptech founders every Wednesday. (00:48) The Space Marketing Mafia (4:28) Christian's 3 rules to a good tweet (11:06) Being scared of AI is good, actually (15:40) Is the age of software startups over? (23:21) Jason admits he's scared of hardware (34:16) Astranis satellites v. Starli...

Mara Huberman is a social media manager at Citizen where she goes viral everyday with shocking content. She was previously at New York Post where she grew their YouTube 600%. Mara is also the author of a raunchy haiku book called 575 and is the funniest sommelier you'll ever meet. (00:54) Why The Internet Loves Shock (06:05) How Mara Went Viral With A Shocking TikTok (11:00) Growing the New Yo...

Isaac Medeiros is the founder of Mini Katana, an 8-figure viral sword store. ⁠⁠ (00:51) Selling swords on TikTok, Meta, and YouTube (7:26) Isaac's previous businesses (9:12) TikTok sucks, YouTube rocks, Twitter has insane potential (13:11) How to build a media team (22:22) How to pick a category for your business (24:14) Battling burnout and internet addiction (31:09) The AI boom makes great a...

Alex Cohen is the founder of SaaS spending tracking Spendoso, the Sr. Director of Product at Carbon Health, and an angel investor in 70+ companies. He's also a prolific memelord and meme marketer. (01:24) Alex has a real job? (6:38) How to handle a co-founder breakup (11:23) Bootstrap versus VC-backed (18:46) We both got fired as teenagers (25:58) How Alex does Meme Marketing (36:43) Long form...

Eric Jorgenson is the author of The Almanack of Naval Ravikant , The Anthology of Balaji , and Career Advice of Uniquely Ambitious People (my personal favorite). He's also a VC at Rolling Fund, CEO at Scribe Media, and hosts a podcast called Smart Friends. (01:18) Career Advice for Uniquely Ambitious People (03:53) Book Marketing Secrets (07:00) Boring is Sexy (16:30) Memes Make Millions (19:0...

I talk with my friend and old boss Greg Isenberg about community-based businesses. (00:53) Why Community Businesses are Hot as Ever (08:02) The Goal Is A Community That Runs Itself (10:41) How to Price a Community (13:22) How to Find Community Members (16:04) What about Physical Communities? (18:00) Jason Become a Multipreneur (21:55) Greg's Advice on Finding Partners (23:52) Greg's Goal-S...

Ellen is the author of poetry book Spacefaring and the founder of Altamira Studio—which is publishing my first book Memes Make Millions on October 15.

Paul is the author of The Pathless Path. He got his MBA at MIT and was a strategy consultant before leaving it behind to become a freelancer and creator. His book was super influential in helping me leaving corporate America to go down The Pathless Path. Jason Levin is the writer behind Cyber Patterns, a newsletter with 7,000+ subscribers focused on content strategy and career hacks for creatives....

Jimmy Soni is the author of 4 books, the most being The Founders about The PayPal Mafia. Jimmy also ghostwrites speeches and op-eds, and does speaking engagements of his own. You can find Jimmy on Twitter @jimmyasoni. Jason Levin is the writer behind Cyber Patterns, a newsletter with 7,000+ subscribers focused on content strategy and career hacks for creatives. You can find him insights and memes...