Alpha King's INSIGHT and ADVICE for Entrepreneurs
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Summary
In this episode of the podcast, I sit down with a good friend of mine, who is a serial entrepreneur and founder of a TV production company, and we talk about the importance of being an entrepreneur and how to deal with copycats.
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I mean, the fact that you got this place, it's a big place.
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It's just one room, the equipment, the staff you have here, security, everything.
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You know, you basically built a TV studio and that really is entrepreneurship.
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That's really like the people that just have one business, they just work alone.
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So like in 2027, freelancer will actually be like the most popular job.
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Most of our workforce will be freelancer within a few years.
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Yeah, that was according to a study, I think in the Wall Street Journal or something like that.
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But like the idea of being an entrepreneur and being able to have an organization
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and be able to create jobs, have labor, you know, being able to distribute capital,
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make investments, manage accounting, all of this stuff, the taking the risk,
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what happens if I purchase all this stuff and it doesn't work out, putting it together,
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You'll see a lot of people that do well on TikTok.
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And outside of being able to get, you know, money from brand deals or sponsorship,
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they're going to struggle because, you know, they haven't, on TikTok,
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they might have got hand out by the extreme far left staff there.
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But once they get off that ocean, once they go into another platform,
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once the tide turns on a lot of these creators and influencers,
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where they lose that one stream of monetization,
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you're going to see who's actually an entrepreneur and who's not, you know,
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What Mr. Beast did, I think, the real secret was that he did something new.
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And like, I think even if everyone copied him today, that guess what happens?
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You lost the competitive value once everybody knows.
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I think his level of mastery is so significant on YouTube, for example,
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that he can have everyone copy just as an experiment for him to learn,
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just to set up the next new thing he's going to do,
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which is going to be nothing like what the others are going to do.
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So as soon as you feel like someone's copying you, you pivot.
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Look, I did millions of dollars of business over 20 years.
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You go on Money Twitter, their average experience is three years of business.
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They're giving business advice like it's Bill Gates or Elon Musk or Warren Buffett
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Over 20 years of business experience doing millions of dollars of deals.
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I didn't become a multimillionaire on TikTok, you know?
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I was already doing millions before I got on TikTok.
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And I'll tell you, in business, this is from a man with over 20 years of experience.
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You're going to have good cycles and tough cycles.
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Not everyone makes it through a tough cycle, you know?
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And you're going to have competitors that are going to copy you.
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No matter what business you go to, your competition will watch you.
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For content creators, it's, okay, they can copy me X, Y, Z.
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But no matter what business you go to, your competition will watch you.
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That's why I don't, I think the worst content, oh my gosh, I have a rant.
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So Kevin Samuels, I like was such a big fan of.
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And I noticed there's so many people that would like say they were credited for his ideas.
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Like I heard this from like five different people.
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And I was like, it's so interesting in YouTube.
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The people that are really like pushing forward, like the space, they're never concerned about
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But I realized everyone that's like, oh, they copied me.
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And two, if you're worried about credit, you're like focusing on the wrong thing.
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You need to worry about like making new and innovative content.
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You know, it's such a, it's such a good, it's man, that's such a good point.
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There was like five different people I heard say that they were the reason Kevin Samuels
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And I was just like, he's not doing the same thing any of you guys are doing.
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I guarantee, I guarantee you, if you have anybody that watches this show that grew up with
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a father, in particular from a Mediterranean country, Middle Eastern country, Latin American
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They won't do that if they're from a Mediterranean country?
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Yeah, I guarantee you, any man who has a father from a Mediterranean or Middle Eastern country,
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Like, you probably grew up like I did, where you had masculinity.
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So like my father, to his credit, a lot of the stuff that's popular now on this red pill
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Yeah, my father has been, like, my father was, to me, since the 90s, I was learning this
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stuff, especially as a Middle Eastern Mediterranean man.
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So like, if someone says to me, I copied someone, I'm like, bro, I'm like, I'm older than almost
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And my father in his 70s is the one, if I'm going to give anyone credit, it's my father
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and his friends, because this is just a cultural norm in that region of the world.
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You talk to any guy from Spain, Italy, Lebanon, Egypt, Israel, Iran, you know, like you go
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to Greece, you go to Turkey, you know, you know, in these countries, these men, there's
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not Albania, you know, you go to these countries, these men have fathers that this is just a
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So what's your advice to guys that want to succeed in business and like make it through
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those rough patches, especially now, because there's so many people wanting to do content
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creation or like freelance drop shipping, whatever it is.
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Yeah, I would, I would say, like, the number one thing I'd say is try out a bunch of things
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that will work for you and you like, rather than just trying to do something you don't
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Some people, one person tagged me on one of my videos today and said, and they tagged
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someone and they were like, hey, Shelly, he looks like your dad, you know?
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And I was just like, wow, I look like some girl's dad who's watching the video.
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So just when you say that, you know, so, so, you know, it really is something to be said
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about trying out what works for you and that you actually like rather than trying to do
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what you think will make you a lot of money and you hate.
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If you can, if you can get two checks on that check box, you like it and you're good at
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That is literally exactly what my dad told me like three years ago because I quit.
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I was, I was working in copier sales and I quit it to do, I was like, I had one viral
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tick tock and it was, it was actually just me telling a story about my family.
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Like it was actually nothing to do with any, cause I had a whole following.
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I built off of like, no red pill, like that's why people are like, oh, you're just like
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I'm like, you know how much more money I would have made doing it to women?
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Like we were talking about earlier, but, but so, um, yeah, my dad always said like, I
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don't care if you make sandwiches or sell toothpicks on the side of the road, like do something
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you love and do it well, because there aren't that many people that really try and are smart
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So he would always say like, if you do something you love, you're going to put in so many more
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And it was so true because a lot of people will kind of, I guess, criticize me because
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they'll be like, oh, you work so much, but it's like, it doesn't feel like work a lot
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Like, it's just, it's like, I'd rather, I would rather do a podcast than go to a party.
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The whole premise of my show was started because, um, like my show is called the pregame
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and it was the whole idea was I always liked pregames better than parties because you would
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have like such a deep conversations with people and they're like at a party, it's loud.
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So the whole premise was the pregame is better than the party and I was playing sports here.
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So it was kind of like a double on, you know, um, but it's funny.
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Um, and he thought it was nuts when I was like, yeah, dad, I'm going to be a TikToker.
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But he's like, if you like it, try it, do it while you're young, that's great.
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You know, uh, it's interesting too, how your dad said your, your dad said to you, if you
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sell toothpicks or toothbrushes, whatever, make sure you love it.
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I call this, uh, the Kimberly example, Kimberly makes, it's disgusting.
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But when you go to the bathroom at like an airport, you see the toilet paper and then
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you see the dispensary dispensary says, Kimberly, that's a company.
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The owner of that company makes a lot of money.
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But what it, but is that person passionate about selling toilet dispensary?
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He may have other motivation to his work and I guarantee you he's taking care of his
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I mean, King, we're just talking about this the other day, how men will do jobs because
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they feel like no one else will do them or women will not.
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So like it, like if I don't do the sewers or the elect, the power lines, like all that
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stuff, is that like the A1 job where you get the most recognition and honor in society?
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No, but it's like a lot of guys realize that no one else will do the job if they don't.