Ben Wilson

Everything Ben Wilson said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

MY FIRST MILLION Assertion Not checkable as stated

Wilson: MrBeast admitted wagering tens of thousands on crypto gambling

“I was talking with him and he was like, yeah, I can't really gamble because I'm kind of a gambling addict. And he talked about like I don't want to say the name of the game, highly addicting crypto gambling site that he would be wagering like tens of thousands…”

Ben Wilson Oct 1, 2022 ▶ 13:45 Controversial Business Lessons From Napoleon, Edison, & Hitler (#369)

MY FIRST MILLION Opinion

Ben Wilson: Malcolm Gladwell is full of crap with little substantive value

“I think that Malcolm Gladwell is full of crap. Most of his stuff is, like, of little to no value.”

Ben Wilson Oct 1, 2022 ▶ 23:55 Controversial Business Lessons From Napoleon, Edison, & Hitler (#369)

MY FIRST MILLION Prediction Not checkable as stated

Crypto hype is peaking and will face a major disillusionment phase

“I think we're right at like the top of the initial hype cycle for crypto. We're going to hit like a big Like disillusionment period where a lot of people are going to leave the space and then it will find its footing and find some legitimate uses a few years f…”

Ben Wilson Dec 29, 2021 ▶ 5:31 The Story of Dark Web Kingpin Ross Ulbricht

MY FIRST MILLION Insight

Ben Wilson: Success requires shedding embarrassment and fully committing to the bit

“The idea of just like throw away your shame and embarrassment, whatever you're trying to do, just fully commit to the bit and you're going to be really successful. I think that's very true.”

Ben Wilson Oct 1, 2022 ▶ 6:04 Controversial Business Lessons From Napoleon, Edison, & Hitler (#369)

MY FIRST MILLION Assertion Supported

Wilson: Blitzkrieg was an American invention, not internal Nazi doctrine

“Blitzkrieg was sort of a marketing stunt. It wasn't anything that the Nazis talked about internally. It's really something like an American invention to explain German success.”

Ben Wilson Oct 1, 2022 ▶ 8:34 Controversial Business Lessons From Napoleon, Edison, & Hitler (#369)

MY FIRST MILLION Assertion Supported

Ben Wilson: CEOs Have Higher Addiction Rates Than General Population

“People who achieve a lot, CEOs you'd think that like they don't have problems with substance abuse, right? Cause these are highly functioning people, but it actually turns out that they have higher rates of addiction and substance abuse than the general popula…”

Ben Wilson Oct 1, 2022 ▶ 11:48 Controversial Business Lessons From Napoleon, Edison, & Hitler (#369)

MY FIRST MILLION Insight

Ben Wilson: YouTube videos must be gripping second-by-second

“Cause podcasts like you listen to as you're washing the dishes, like it doesn't matter that it's not gripping every second of the audio, but for YouTube, like it does need to be gripping every second, like really needs to pull people second by second.”

Ben Wilson Jul 19, 2022 ▶ 5:08 Our Producer Had A 90-Minute Phone Call With Mr Beast…

MY FIRST MILLION Insight

Ben Wilson: Great creators follow unreasonable passions over safe choices

“And so for Mr. Beast, it's just like the, don't let anyone convince you that you need to be working on the reasonable thing. Like you need to follow your unreasonable passions because some, somehow great things are going to come out of that.”

Ben Wilson Jul 19, 2022 ▶ 9:56 Our Producer Had A 90-Minute Phone Call With Mr Beast…

MY FIRST MILLION Prediction Not checkable as stated

Wilson: Remote workers will increasingly congregate around niche hobby communities

“And I think as people can now choose where they want to live, they're going to start congregating more in groups of like, I don't know, group around their hobbies or like vegans, how they want to eat. I don't know, like random niches.”

Ben Wilson Jan 12, 2022 ▶ 5:21 Saas Companies that Anyone Can Start with Rob Walling

MY FIRST MILLION Prediction Not checkable as stated

Startup and autonomous cities will be the next big crypto trend

“The other thing that I'm like super interested in, and I think is going to be a big space for the crypto type people. Going forward is idea of like startup cities, autonomous cities like kind of building a new way of living from the ground up”

Ben Wilson Dec 29, 2021 ▶ 1:54 The Story of Dark Web Kingpin Ross Ulbricht

MY FIRST MILLION Assertion Partly supported

Ross Ulbricht was never charged with or convicted of murder-for-hire

“Yeah, so to be clear, he was never convicted of this. In fact, he was never even charged with putting out these hits.”

Ben Wilson Dec 29, 2021 ▶ 34:11 The Story of Dark Web Kingpin Ross Ulbricht

MY FIRST MILLION Assertion Partly supported

DEA estimated Silk Road processed $1.2 billion in illegal drug transactions

“This is like DEA estimates. So they say 1.2 billion dollars worth of illegal drug transit transactions took place.”

Ben Wilson Dec 29, 2021 ▶ 51:38 The Story of Dark Web Kingpin Ross Ulbricht

MY FIRST MILLION Insight

Wilson: Strategic breakthroughs like Amazon require concentrating resources on narrow targets

“It's not just going fast, although fast is important, but it's that like focusing tons of resources on a small focal point. So like to go back to the Amazon example, it's starting with bookstores, right? It's starting with just books. Like I'm gonna take tons …”

Ben Wilson Oct 1, 2022 ▶ 9:47 Controversial Business Lessons From Napoleon, Edison, & Hitler (#369)

MY FIRST MILLION Assertion Not checkable as stated

Ben Wilson: MrBeast calls interesting people during night walks

“At night he goes for walks and he just calls people who he thinks are interesting. And he tries to like download their brains and learn anything that he can.”

Ben Wilson Jul 19, 2022 ▶ 3:57 Our Producer Had A 90-Minute Phone Call With Mr Beast…

MY FIRST MILLION Assertion Contradicted

60 federal agents infiltrated Silk Road with fake transactions

“That's 60 federal agents who were on there doing like fake sales or fake buys and bust.”

Ben Wilson Dec 29, 2021 ▶ 32:03 The Story of Dark Web Kingpin Ross Ulbricht

The other half of the tape: Ben Wilson's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 46 times in 25 episodes across the shows. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Shaan Puri 27Sam Parr 18Noah Kagan 1

Every mention by year

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Ben's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
MY FIRST MILLIONLEDGER	Host & Creator, How to Take Over the World	13	15	40% 2/5	full record on My First Million →