BiggerPockets

“Today I think it's two and a half, three million members. We built the most popular real estate podcast on iTunes, still a top 10 business show on iTunes. And then we built out multiple other podcasts and other categories related. We bought we built up a book …”

“When you run to pretty much any community, you'll see, like, the experienced guys always, like, there'll be, like, a new question that comes out, and they'll be like, well, have you gone and read, you know, all the other forum questions? Have you searched? You…”

“Enforcing those rules is really hard and you get a lot of people who push back against them and, you know, in order to be successful, you have to stand up for what's right.”

“I went and talked to a couple of venture capitalists in Denver where I was living about it. And You know, ask them, hey, what do you think about this? You know, what can we do with this? Or, you know, is this something that is fundable? And they both told me t…”

“And I never took a penny from anyone. You know, I started with my four dollar a month hosting and that was the only money I ever applied into that business was the first four bucks and then the next four bucks and the next four bucks, but like beyond that, I b…”

“At one point I remember I had an ad contract that somebody wanted and it would have represented like fifth. It was early, you know, probably year two or three, but it would have represented like probably 40 to 60% of our total revenues. And I said, I can't do …”

“I don't think in hundreds and hundreds of episodes that, that I hosted the BiggerPockets podcast, I don't think I ever did a single endorsement.”

“That's why we launched a podcast. That's why we built out a book business. That's why I did a conference in 2014, you know, by myself and the team now does one annually, but you know, and that's why we built memberships and things like that. Ultimately it was …”

“If you go too broad, I made the mistake of at one point going too broad and year eight, I discovered it because I said, Hey, bigger pockets is going to be everything for everyone. Real estate. And suddenly like I stopped focusing specifically on investors and …”

“I don't think I had 10,000 members for maybe two years, three years.”

“Audience testing is to be taken with a grain of salt, you know, until, until somebody gives you money, you know, you can't count on what they say, what people say and what they actually do aren't always going to be the same thing.”

“When I started BiggerPockets, I was teaching special ed in Los Angeles as a full-time job.”

“To be honest, I was working a hundred hour weeks for eight years. There was a eight year period where I never did not work. On my company.”

“I would have been fine if I had worked a little less hard, to be honest, but you do have to put the time in.”

“Well, yeah, I mean, look for me, I will tell you the reason I ultimately had my exit. We had this trauma happened to one of my kids and it just, I mean, it hit me like Mike, Mike Tyson shot might have felt to somebody. I mean, it was It was a wake-up call, you…”

“The guys who started the podcast with BiggerPockets, they are now raising fifty million, about fifty million dollars a month. They're raising from the BiggerPockets audience. Money to buy real estate and then they're syndicating and they're buying tons and ton…”

“I think if you want to build a community this is the company like and make money from it. This style and you want to do it like with a style where you get a lot of people. These guys are one hunt. This is the model. This is the perfect model on how to do it.”

“If you're gonna build a community or a media company in any niche, this is one that I would bet on, because You know, if you're not going to go for something new and sexy like crypto or whatever, you know, this is where a lot of money is to be made and there's…”

“With their addition of podcasts, they now know much more about me. If I listen to the BiggerPockets podcast, they know I'm most likely a landlord and I love real estate.”

“Josh Dorkin on an episode one Oh nine who runs bigger pockets. He broke down how he's got 10,000 people paying nine dollars a month for his real estate membership site.”

“Josh Dorkin. He's got 10,000 people paying nine dollars a month, and that was back in episode, what episode was that?”