The Jason Levin Show

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

(19:00) The New Book Market

⁠Jason Levin⁠ is an NYC-based marketing consultant for startups like Product Hunt, Jam.dev, and more. Every week, he shares tactics for organic social media growth for startups in his newsletter ⁠Cyber Patterns⁠ to 15,000+ readers.

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Past guests of The Jason Levin Show include: Greg Isenberg, Jack Raines, Paul Millerd, Mike Solana, Danny Miranda, Billy Oppenheimer, Jack Rhysider, Ben Wilson, and more.

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-Setting Tactics

(31:12) Are all Entrepreneurs Gambling Addicts? YES.

Jason Levin is an NYC-based marketing consultant for startups like Product Hunt, Jam.dev, and more. Every week, he shares tactics for organic social media growth for startups in his newsletter Cyber Patterns to 15,000+ readers.

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. You can find him insights and memes on ⁠Twitter⁠ and subscribe to Cyber Patterns (www.cyberpatterns.xyz)

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.

Dakota Robertson is a prominent ghostwriter with 200,000+ followers on Twitter (@wrongstowrite). He's taught countless new people the art of ghostwriting and made good money doing it. No timestamps today — Today's conversation is 99% entirely about making money online and growing on Twitter.

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 on ⁠Twitter (@iamjasonlevin)⁠ and subscribe to Cyber Patterns here.

Mike Solana is the founder of media brand Pirate Wires and an entrepreneur in residence at Founders Fund where he's worked with Peter Thiel for 10+ years. With almost 250,000 followers, Solana is one of the leading voices in the tech-media space. You can find him on Twitter @MicSolana and subscribe to Pirate Wires here.

1:03 - 16:02 — Pirate Wires

16:02 - 22:01 — Working with Peter Thiel

22:01 - 30:03 — Thoughtcrime

30:03 — END — Tech Twitter

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 on ⁠Twitter⁠ and subscribe to Cyber Patterns here.

Venkatesh Rao is an essayist and author focused on organizational psychology and strategies for freelancers. I've been a fan of his work for almost 2 years and wasn't sure if I'd ever be able to have this conversation. Highly recommend you check out his new book The Art of Gig Volume 2.  Venkatesh can be found on Twitter and Substack. 

2:15 - 5:30 Intellectual Sparring

5:35 - 8:10  Being Slightly Evil

8:10 - 9:50 SBF v. Elon

9:56 - 10:30 Effective Altruism

10:40 - 13:30 Cold-blooded Listening

13:30 - 17:50 Charismatic Megagigs 

18:00 - 21:00 Upward Managing your Clients

21:10 - VGR’s Average Day

24:15 - 26:10 Deep work

Jason Levin is the writer behind Cyber Patterns, a newsletter with 2,500+ subscribers focused on how to win the great online game. You can find him posting growth tactics and dumb tech bro jokes on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Abhishek Shah is the writer behind Psychology of Marketing, a newsletter with over 17,000 subscribers. He's quickly built up a Twitter audience of over 40,000 followers by sharing thoughtful marketing tips and tactics. Hope you enjoy this conversation.

2:10 - 2:55 LinkedIn or Twitter?

4:13-5:41 Finding ads for newsletters

7:00-10:00 Legacy Media v. Creators

10:00-12:30 India as a Tech Powerhouse

12:30-15:00 Twitter giveaways

15:00-16:00 Day in the life

16:50- 17:20 The grind of Twitter

Jason Levin is the writer behind Cyber Patterns, a newsletter with 2,000+ subscribers focused on how to win the great online game. You can find him posting growth tactics and dumb tech bro jokes on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Danny Miranda runs The Danny Miranda Podcast where he interviews the happiest, healthiest, and wisest people in the world.  We chatted about growing a podcast, our favorite guests, and our journeys as creators. Find Danny on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok. Don't forget to subscribe to my newsletter Cyber Patterns and hit me on Twitter.