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Beat The Odds with Dre, Rodney, & Brylan

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Jul 21, 2023 • 1h 14min

Business Acquisitions 101, Unprofitable Venture Capital Firms, and OpenAI

Ep 35: Dre (@Dreunlimited), Rodney (@Rg2official), and Brylan (@0xHimzel) discuss Greenwood Bank and The Gathering Spot suing each other over an acquisition gone wrong, a look inside the unprofitable world of venture capital, how to acquire an existing business with little to no money and much more. ---- Social Links: Dre  Twitter: https://twitter.com/DreUnlimited LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dandree/ Rodney  Twitter: https://twitter.com/Rg2official LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rodneygainous/ Brylan  Twitter: https://twitter.com/0xHimzel LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brylandonaldson/
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Jul 14, 2023 • 1h 2min

Liquid Death: The $1 Billion Water Brand That Murdered Marketing

Ep 34: Dre (@Dreunlimited), Rodney (@Rg2official), and Brylan (@0xHimzel) discuss Claude, a new AI chatbot from Anthropic to take on ChatGPT; Threads by Meta reaches 100M users in 5 days, and how Liquid Death took over the water world with aggressive marketing.  ---- Social Links: Dre  Twitter: https://twitter.com/DreUnlimited LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dandree/ Rodney  Twitter: https://twitter.com/Rg2official LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rodneygainous/ Brylan  Twitter: https://twitter.com/0xHimzel LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brylandonaldson/
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Jul 3, 2023 • 1h 12min

The Founding Story of Blackberry & How A Farmer Earns $20M/year With A Newsletter

Ep 33: Dre (@Dreunlimited), Rodney (@Rg2official), and Brylan (@0xHimzel) discuss a farmer earning $20M with a niche newsletter business, the founding story of Blackberry and how they once dominated the smartphone market, and how Pi raised over $1B for their AI chatbot.  ---- Social Links: Dre  Twitter: https://twitter.com/DreUnlimited LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dandree/ Rodney  Twitter: https://twitter.com/Rg2official LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rodneygainous/ Brylan  Twitter: https://twitter.com/0xHimzel LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brylandonaldson/ ----  Follow Beat The Odds
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Jun 27, 2023 • 1h 12min

Solo Founder Sells Company for $50M+

Ep 32: Dre (@Dreunlimited), Rodney (@Rg2official), and Brylan (@0xHimzel) discuss how a solo founder sold his company for $50M+, what caused a submarine to go missing, how IRL's founder faked having 20M active users, and much more.  ---- Social Links: Dre  Twitter: https://twitter.com/DreUnlimited LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dandree/ Rodney  Twitter: https://twitter.com/Rg2official LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rodneygainous/ Brylan  Twitter: https://twitter.com/0xHimzel LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brylandonaldson/
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Jun 19, 2023 • 1h 17min

The Reddit Boycott, Apple Vision Pro, And More

Ep 31: Dre (@Dreunlimited), Rodney (@Rg2official), and Brylan (@0xHimzel) discuss how Reddit is facing off with moderators causing popular subreddits to go private, how Apple's new Vision Pro headset might change personal computers forever, OpenAI releases a new product called Function Calling, and much more!  ---- Social Links: Dre  Twitter: https://twitter.com/DreUnlimited LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dandree/ Rodney  Twitter: https://twitter.com/Rg2official LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rodneygainous/ Brylan  Twitter: https://twitter.com/0xHimzel LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brylandonaldson/
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Jun 4, 2023 • 1h 18min

Business Partnerships Gone Wrong, The Rise of Open Source Models, The End of Work From Home, And More

Ep 30: Dre (@Dreunlimited), Rodney (@Rg2official), and Brylan (@0xHimzel) discuss the recent comments from Brandon Marshall on the break up of I AM ATHLETE, Professor Scott Galloway's public service announcement for Gen Z, the importance of local machine learning models, and much more.  ---- Social Links: Dre  Twitter: https://twitter.com/DreUnlimited LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dandree/ Rodney  Twitter: https://twitter.com/Rg2official LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rodneygainous/ Brylan  Twitter: https://twitter.com/0xHimzel LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brylandonaldson/ ----  Follow Beat The Odds
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May 27, 2023 • 1h 15min

Personal AI Chatbots, The Rise of Pickleball, The Truth About Media, And Much More.

Ep 29: Dre (@Dreunlimited), Rodney (@Rg2official), and Brylan (@0xHimzel) discuss how everyone will have a personal AI chatbot in the future, how Pickleball became the fastest growing sport in the US, how Twitter is disrupting media, and much more.  ---- Social Links: Dre  Twitter: https://twitter.com/DreUnlimited LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dandree/ Rodney  Twitter: https://twitter.com/Rg2official LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rodneygainous/ Brylan  Twitter: https://twitter.com/0xHimzel LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brylandonaldson/  
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May 21, 2023 • 1h 4min

SoftBank Launches $100M Fund For Black Founders, The Future Of Humanoids, & More.

Ep 28: Dre (@Dreunlimited), Rodney (@Rg2official), and Brylan (@0xHimzel) discuss SoftBank's Opportunity Fund targeting Black and Latino founders, how Ja Morant is facing a substantial financial loss for his actions, and how Elon believes humanoids are the future and much more.  ---- Social Links: Dre  Twitter: https://twitter.com/DreUnlimited LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dandree/ Rodney  Twitter: https://twitter.com/Rg2official LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rodneygainous/ Brylan  Twitter: https://twitter.com/0xHimzel LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brylandonaldson/
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May 13, 2023 • 1h 6min

Google Enters AI Wars, Billionaire Media Mogul Byron Allen, An Influencer Earned $70K+ With AI Chatbot, & More

Ep 27: Dre (@Dreunlimited), Rodney (@Rg2official), and Brylan (@0xHimzel) discuss the latest from this week's Google IO event, how Bryon Allen purchased The Weather Channel for $300M in cash, an influencer chatbot earning six figures, and much more.  ---- Social Links: Dre  Twitter: https://twitter.com/DreUnlimited LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dandree/ Rodney  Twitter: https://twitter.com/Rg2official LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rodneygainous/ Brylan  Twitter: https://twitter.com/0xHimzel LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brylandonaldson/ ---- 
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May 3, 2023 • 1h 16min

How To Approach Investors

Ep 26: Dre (@Dreunlimited), Rodney (@Rg2official), and Brylan (@0xHimzel) discuss YC Founder Paul Graham's latest tweet, ChatGPT VS Bard, Lamar Jackson's big contract, and much more.

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