Dan Martell - January 07, 2026


I mentored a kid in Dubai on starting a business


Episode Stats


Length

36 seconds

Words per minute

275.12357

Word count

167

Sentence count

14


Summary

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In this episode of the podcast, I sit down with my good friend and founder of the AI app and event company, to talk about how he built his company from the ground up and why you should do the same.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 This kid, probably 14 years old, runs up to me and he goes, I've got this idea and I want to launch it, but I don't know where to start.
00:00:05.900 I sat down and I said, I know there's all these, you want to build this web app and you want to do this AI stuff.
00:00:10.620 Here's what you're going to do.
00:00:11.740 You're going to launch an event because I think events are actually the most beautiful way to start a business.
00:00:17.180 You learn how to recruit speakers.
00:00:18.740 You have to negotiate a location.
00:00:20.480 You have to sell tickets.
00:00:21.300 You got to learn marketing.
00:00:22.060 You have to learn logistics.
00:00:23.080 I said, so you want to do this AI app thing.
00:00:24.720 You're going to run an event on AI.
00:00:26.200 You're going to recruit the speakers.
00:00:27.260 You're going to be the MC.
00:00:28.040 that's going to build his relationships that's going to teach him how to win everything other
00:00:32.760 than doing that is just acting out of fear yeah