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Trung Phan: Backstory, Writing in Public, Twitter Growth & Power of Memes

Sep 12, 2022

01:11:28

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Ike, You're Sedonymous.

01:29

The Real Arbitrage Is the Audience Building

03:39

You Don't Want to Pile on People in General

01:52

Introduction

2min

Do You Want to Do a Deep Dive?

3min

Is It a Wealthy Famboy?

2min

The Headstone of MGR Granfather

2min

You've Got Almost Half a Million Followers on Twitter.

4min

Is Twitter Working?

2min

The Deep Dive on Twitter

3min

How Old Are You When You Moved Back to the Us?

3min

Can Mba Programs Really Help You?

2min

10.

What's the Most Important Skill, Ashleyll?

2min

11.

You Don't Control Anything. Theta. There Zero I Control.

3min

12.

Griw Podcast

2min

13.

You Tube

4min

14.

Linkton Jobs Podcast - How to Find the Right People to Hire and Manage Remote Employees

6min

15.

You Don't Want to Pile on People in General

2min

16.

You Worked an Hustle for a Year and a Half, Two Years, Yeah?

4min

17.

Is There a Correlation?

2min

18.

You've Been Talking About Turning That Script Into a TV Show?

3min

19.

How Much Can You Sell Somehing Like That For?

3min

20.

How to Promote a Book on Twitter?

2min

21.

The News Letter Question Is, Why Twitters?

2min

22.

How to Drive Podcasts Down Lods and Subscribers

3min

23.

The Real Arbitrage Is the Audience Building

4min

24.

Ike, You're Sedonymous.

1min

25.

The Anchor Piece, Like, I'm Putting It Out

6min

26.

The Showman, Thanks for Being on a Showman.

2min

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/dytmn7fcBxo

Timestamps:

(00:00:00) - Intro
(00:02:34) - How The Phan Family Got To Canada
(00:07:34) - Trung's Exposure To Writing
(00:11:28) - Twitter: The Good & Bad
(00:14:29) - South East Asia To America
(00:24:42) - Anxiety & Writing Publically
(00:27:12) - Growing A Podcast
(00:32:04) - Sponsor: Linkedin Jobs
(00:33:04) - Sponsor: Justworks
(00:34:20) - Cringe Test
(00:39:45) - Vanity Metrics & Distraction of Follower Count
(00:45:52) - Film Script To TV Show
(00:52:04) - Why Trung Started On Twitter
(00:58:10) - Where To Start
(00:04:53) - Topic Ideas: Breadth vs. Depth

Subscribe & watch on YouTube:https://youtu.be/dytmn7fcBxo Links Mentioned:

Trung's newsletter: https://trungphan.substack.com/
Trung's Twitter: https://twitter.com/trungtphan
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