Beyond Influential

#29 Tom Bilyeu on Building a Billion Dollar Business, Impact Theory & Escaping the Matrix

May 16, 2018

01:32:11

Tom Bilyeu is the co-founder of 2014 Inc. 500 company Quest Nutrition — a unicorn startup valued at over $1 billion — and the co-founder and host of Impact Theory. Impact Theory's mission is built around the creation of empowering media-based IP and the acceleration of mission-based businesses

Tom's mission in life is to free people from The Matrix, but changing their limiting mindsets. How is he going to do this? By building Impact Theory into a Disney-sized machine. If any of that that sounds crazy to you, Tom takes a lot of pleasure in proving you wrong.

Tom regularly inspires audiences of entrepreneurs, change makers, and thought leaders through his weekly web show Impact Theory - where clips regularly go viral. A few notable pasts guests include Tim Ferriss, Seth Godin, Michael Strahan, and Gary Vaynerchuk. Tom currently reaches 100s of thousands of people through his social channels and it won’t be too long until it’s millions.

On this episode we cover:

How Tom went from not having an entrepreneurial bone in his body to co-founding a billion dollar business
Why his life's mission is to free people from the Matrix
Impact Theory: How he prepares for his interviews & what are the common themes among the most influential people he interviews
How he's approached building his content & personal brand (& more!)

To connect with Tom:

Impact Theory Website

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*Free download: Here are my Top 5 Tips for New Entrepreneurs based on the very real lessons I learned in my first year of business. It also includes a free Business Checklist for New Entrepreneurs that I made in partnership with my attorney Nico Becerra (Ep. #14).

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