

The Next Generation
Connor Gross & Giovanni Armonies-Assalone
Meet the entrepreneurs in their 20's who are building companies that will shape the future. Weekly episodes range from side hustle ideas to help you build passive income to quit your job or business stories of twenty-somethings having success with their own business.
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Aug 19, 2021 • 58min
#32 - Paul Benigeri - Scaling Past $10M+ With Influencers
On todays episode we chat with Paul Benigeri from archive.ai
We discuss
A step by step playbook for brands to use influencers
How Paul started archive.ai
Scaling past $10M+ using influencers
And much more
You can connect with Paul on twitter
https://twitter.com/benigeri
and check out archive.ai at https://archive.ai

Aug 12, 2021 • 50min
#31 – Branick Weix – Drone Photography, Selling Pumpkins Online, Raising Millions For SaaS & Scaling Through Facebook Groups
On today's episode we sit down with Branick Weix, Founder of Aryeo (www.aryeo.com/). Branick breaks down how he started his first business back in high school doing drone photography, how he pivoted into e-commerce and finally how he was able to raise $3.5 M for his latest company, Aryeo. If you enjoyed todays episode, please be sure to review and subscribe to the podcast and let us know on twitter @c_gro or @gio__aa
See you guys next week!

Aug 4, 2021 • 1h 3min
#30 Zach Pogrob - $50K Per Month In Photo Booth Rentals and How To Start One
Today on the podcast we have Zach Pogrob.
Zach runs a lot of different projects and businesses. His most lucrative is peakphotobooths.com. which does Photo Booth rentals on Long Island. He also creates exceptional content on instagram @bahaviorhack and his substack https://behaviorhack.substack.com
We covered a lot on this episode
- Scaling event rentals to $50k per month
- Getting 100k+ Instagram followers
- Other profitable ideas to start

Jul 28, 2021 • 1h 29min
#29 – Corey Haines – Building Paid Communities, Brainstorming Membership Site Ideas, Quitting Your Job, Economics of Inflatable Movie Theaters
On today’s episode Corey Haines, Founder of swipefiles.com shares with us how he got started creating and growing Swipe Files into a membership site that makes several thousand dollars every month. Corey shares exactly how:
He’d start over from 0 today
His favorite niches to start a community in and why
How much $$$ he paid for Swipefiles.com domain
Why he’s bullish on businesses like this
If you love the episode and want to check out more of what Corey is working on, head on over to https://www.coreyhaines.co/ or follow Corey on twitter @coreyhainesco . Get 50% off Swipefiles.com with the code THENEXTGENERATION.

Jul 22, 2021 • 44min
#28 – Craig Curelop – 28 – Buying 20 Rental Units, House Hacking, Building A Brokerage, Financial Freedom, Buying Real Estate In 2021
On todays episode we sit down with Craig Curelop to discuss his path towards financial freedom through real estate. Craig currently owners 14 rental units in the Denver area and 6 single family properties in North Carolina. Craig also runs his own brokerage at the https://www.thefiteam.com/ and puts out a ton of content on instagram @thefiguy. Craig shares with us how he got started on his first deal and how people in their 20's can also get started without needing much money down.'
And you enjoyed today's episode let us know on Twitter @c_gro and @gio__aa

Jul 12, 2021 • 49min
#27 - Failed Businesses That Cost Us Thousands & 3 Business Ideas You Can Steal
On todays episode Gio and Connor discuss projects they've started that didn't go as planned. Why some of them failed, why they were started, and lessons learned. They also chat about different business ideas that are interesting and could be worth pursuing.
Don't forget to subscribe and leave a review.

Jun 30, 2021 • 58min
#26 - Jake Thomas - How Writing About Golden Retrievers Makes You $5,000 Per Month
For anyone looking to start an online business, this is a great episode.
We chat with Jake Thomas on how we went from no experience in SEO to generating $5k per month with https://goldenhearts.co
We learn his strategy for coming up with new content, discovering profitable niches and much more.
And the best part? He spent almost no money.
You can stay up to date with Jake by following him on twitter
https://twitter.com/jthomas__

Jun 24, 2021 • 57min
#25 – Josh Belinsky on Scaling A DTC Milk Brand from $0 to 3,500+ stores at 26.
Josh Belinsky grabs the mic today to chat about he went from lactose intolerant to running Slate Milk, a beverage brand in over 3,500 stores with 20 grams of protein and 0 grams of sugar. They’ve been seen on everything from Kickstarter to Sharktank to some of the biggest stores in the world. We sit down to chat about:
How they even figured out how to make milk
How they think about using Kickstarter
How they do influencer outreach all the way to getting the US Bobsled team to want to sponsor their brand
What Josh sees for the brand in the next 10 years.
If you like the podcast, be sure to leave a review and let us know what you thought!

Jun 19, 2021 • 18min
#24 - Should You Get A Job After College?
On today’s episode, we answer the question “Should You Get A Job After College”? We break down the financial risk of not getting a job, share stories of why Connor got a job for 5 weeks before quitting, how to structure your days if you chose entrepreneurship, and more.
Let us know what you thought of today's episode.
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Jun 16, 2021 • 53min
#23 – Joseph Lee – On Building A $5M+ Company, Losing 90% of Revenue Overnight, Dropping Out of College, And Shifting Business Models
Joseph Lee is the co-founder of Freshline, an e-commerce platform for food suppliers and retailers. Joseph is a serial entrepreneur who first got his start at only 14 years old. He’s not 26 and has been through Tech Stars, Thiel Fellowship, and a pandemic that shut down 90% of his customers overnight. We chat with Joe about the benefits of starting small projects before your first company, why he dropped out in his last semester of university, and the resiliency to keep growing Freshline during COVID-19. Follow along with Joseph at his blog https://www.jhylee.com/ or on Linkedin here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jhylee/