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Ep 83: From Running an Arsenal Review blog with 500k views to Google & Podcasting | Bilal Zaidi (Entrepreneur & Podcaster at Creator Lab & Not Investment Advice)
It’s always exciting for me to introduce another podcaster on STIMY, and today’s guest has not 1, but 2 highly successful podcasts:
- Creator Lab: an entrepreneurship podcast & growth marketing consultancy
- Not Investment Advice: a weekly business podcast covering the latest in business, tech & web 3
Bilal Zaidi has interviewed some of the world's best, including people like Jim Mckelvey, the billionaire co-founder of Square, Tim Urban from Wait But Why, Kat Cole, president of Athletic Greens, Daymond John from Shark Tank & Gary Vee.
Beyond entrepreneurship - he's interviewed a wide range of creators ranging from Hollywood actors, Emmy-winning performers, leading writers, billionaire investors & non-profit founders.
He started his first company, an e-commence business, aged 16yrs old after selling sim cards, CDs & clothes at school & also an Arsenal Review blog that racked over 500,000 views.
He later spent 7.5yrs working at Google managing a $100mil+ business. After meeting the founder of leading social enterprise, charity: water, Bilal left his job to join their leadership team full time as their first ever Director of Brand Partnerships, partnering with brands like Saint Laurent, J Crew, Amazon & 100+ others to raise money & awareness for clean water. To date, charity: water has helped almost 15mil+ people get access to clean drinking water in 29 countries.
Bilal is now a full time entrepreneur & creator, working on several ventures as a podcaster, consultant & investor.
Highlights:
- 3:40 Growing up in East London as a Pakistani British
- 6:52 Being a fan of Nars the rapper
- 7:42 Taking money seriously
- 9:47 Starting his first company, Street Vibes, as a student
- 12:49 Learning the art of selling from the vendors at London street markets
- 15:24 Running an Arsenal Review website with over 500,000 readers
- 18:44 Being headhunted by Google on LinkedIn
- 22:14 Almost turning down the opportunity to work at Google
- 23:25 Being seen as a drug dealer?!
- 25:37 Spending 7.5 years at Google
- 27:19 Shutting down a $300M company within Google
- 29:19 Getting out of his low period
- 32:16 Starting the Creator Lab podcast
- 36:43 How Bilal lands amazing guests
- 43:49 Focus on one platform
- 48:26 Landing podcast sponsorship deals
- 53:05 Milestones in Bilal’s podcasting journey
- 55:30 Meeting the Winklevoss twins
- 58:40 Interviewing Gary Vee
- 1:05:39 Jack Butcher - going from cold DMs to close friends
- 1:14:40 How much personality should you show?
📍Show notes: www.sothisismywhy.com/83
💌 Sign up for the weekly STIMY newsletter: https://sothisismywhy.ck.page/ebf231f605
🪙 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sothisismywhy
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It’s always exciting for me to introduce another podcaster on STIMY, and today’s guest has not 1, but 2 highly successful podcasts:
- Creator Lab: an entrepreneurship podcast & growth marketing consultancy
- Not Investment Advice: a weekly business podcast covering the latest in business, tech & web 3
Bilal Zaidi has interviewed some of the world's best, including people like Jim Mckelvey, the billionaire co-founder of Square, Tim Urban from Wait But Why, Kat Cole, president of Athletic Greens, Daymond John from Shark Tank & Gary Vee.
Beyond entrepreneurship - he's interviewed a wide range of creators ranging from Hollywood actors, Emmy-winning performers, leading writers, billionaire investors & non-profit founders.
He started his first company, an e-commence business, aged 16yrs old after selling sim cards, CDs & clothes at school & also an Arsenal Review blog that racked over 500,000 views.
He later spent 7.5yrs working at Google managing a $100mil+ business. After meeting the founder of leading social enterprise, charity: water, Bilal left his job to join their leadership team full time as their first ever Director of Brand Partnerships, partnering with brands like Saint Laurent, J Crew, Amazon & 100+ others to raise money & awareness for clean water. To date, charity: water has helped almost 15mil+ people get access to clean drinking water in 29 countries.
Bilal is now a full time entrepreneur & creator, working on several ventures as a podcaster, consultant & investor.
Highlights:
- 3:40 Growing up in East London as a Pakistani British
- 6:52 Being a fan of Nars the rapper
- 7:42 Taking money seriously
- 9:47 Starting his first company, Street Vibes, as a student
- 12:49 Learning the art of selling from the vendors at London street markets
- 15:24 Running an Arsenal Review website with over 500,000 readers
- 18:44 Being headhunted by Google on LinkedIn
- 22:14 Almost turning down the opportunity to work at Google
- 23:25 Being seen as a drug dealer?!
- 25:37 Spending 7.5 years at Google
- 27:19 Shutting down a $300M company within Google
- 29:19 Getting out of his low period
- 32:16 Starting the Creator Lab podcast
- 36:43 How Bilal lands amazing guests
- 43:49 Focus on one platform
- 48:26 Landing podcast sponsorship deals
- 53:05 Milestones in Bilal’s podcasting journey
- 55:30 Meeting the Winklevoss twins
- 58:40 Interviewing Gary Vee
- 1:05:39 Jack Butcher - going from cold DMs to close friends
- 1:14:40 How much personality should you show?
📍Show notes: www.sothisismywhy.com/83
💌 Sign up for the weekly STIMY newsletter: https://sothisismywhy.ck.page/ebf231f605
🪙 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sothisismywhy
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