Codie Sanchez
Founder & CEO, Contrarian Thinking. On 5 shows, 168 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Codie Sanchez is the founder and CEO of Contrarian Thinking and Contrarian Thinking Capital. She previously worked at Goldman Sachs and Vanguard, and advocates for acquiring small, cash-flowing businesses.
5shows
168appearances
1,055statements
282resolved
146supported
73contradicted
52%fully supported
66said about them ↓ Everything Codie Sanchez said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Sanchez: Workers who fail to integrate AI will exit the workforce
“Those who use AI and are able to integrate it will be able to continue in the workforce on a go-forward basis. For my company and for others. And those who don't, won't.”
Sanchez: Doctors provide no escape plan for chronic cholesterol medications
“It's fascinating, actually, because no doctors give you an escape plan for medicine. I mean, for cholesterol levels. You're just on cholesterol medicine for the rest of your life.”
Sanchez: Research shows high IQ does not lead to higher income
“There is little to no research that high IQ leads to higher income. Now there is research that shows really low IQ or very Like lower mid IQ and below does materially show that you're going to make less money. Lots of research showing that, but there's not a l…”
Sanchez: Open border policies create massive tragedy and violence
“And I was really mad because a bunch of people were talking about how open border policies are kind, and I don't believe that at all. I think it creates massive tragedy and violence”
Codie Sanchez crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally hundreds of times
“I mean, I saw, I've crossed, crossed the border hundreds of times illegally, documenting sort of what happens in conflict zones.”
Codie Sanchez argues that remote work making people happier is a lie
“Some of the research shows, one, higher levels of depression and anxiety with work from home. So I actually think that was a great lie. It was a big, beautiful lie. That sitting in our sweatpants, in our house, on Zoom meetings all day would actually make us h…”
Sanchez: Your bank account reflects the value of your skill set
“A hard truth is if you don't like your bank account,
Your bank account is a reflection of how valuable you are currently in your skill set.”
Sanchez: U.S. social programs are stealing from youth to pay older generations
“In fact, Scott Galloway has an incredible Ted talk basically talking about how these programs are stealing from the youth to give to the next generation. And I think that is actually true. I think if you are a mom, a dad, a grandma, a grandpa, and you look at …”
Sanchez: China Uses Yuan for Most Cross-Border Transactions
“China has started to use its own currency for most cross-border transactions.”
Sanchez: Prosecuting former presidents triggers a retaliatory cycle when power shifts
“What happens when your guys go out of power and the other guys come into power? Then you just play a game of going after one another. It's why we shouldn't Arrest former presidents for political reasons.”
Sanchez: Ozempic costs under $5 to make but sells for $1,000 monthly
“Well, Yale says that Ozempic costs less than five dollars a month to manufacture, And yet we're getting charged a thousand dollars a month for this drug. While the exact same product can be bought in Canada for a 155 dollars a month and 59 dollars a month in G…”
Sanchez: Major Democratic donors threatened to withhold 30 million unless Biden withdrew
“A bunch of the big Democratic donors are saying, I will keep my thirty million dollars I was going to donate to the Biden campaign unless they step down.”
Sanchez: Skilled trade grads earn up to $100K, out-earning marketing grads
“The average marketing major makes somewhere between 60 to 80,000 dollars a year. The average skilled trades worker after they graduate can make up where of 75 to a 100,000 dollars a year.”
Sanchez: Sitting within 25 feet of an underperformer reduces performance 30%
“If you sit next to an underperformer, if an underperformer is sat within a 25 foot radius of a bunch of normal people like you and me, they take your performance down by 30%.”
Sanchez: Focus should be moving workers out of minimum wage jobs
“We shouldn't be trying to raise the minimum wage. We should be trying to get people out of minimum wage jobs. That should be a stepping stone to a higher level job, and we should have more advancement in our careers as opposed to stagnation and expecting the s…”
Sanchez: Most online creators telling people to quit are unemployable
“Most people on the internet are literally unemployable. Like, they've never had a real job. They don't understand people who have jobs. They tell you guys every single day why you should just quit and go all in, and it doesn't matter, and they've only ever bee…”
Sanchez: Young, hungry professionals should avoid remote jobs and work in-office
“I think if you are young, Hungry, and you want to make big moves, and make a bunch of money, you should not take a remote job. You want to be in the office.”
Sanchez: UFC shares only 13% of revenue compared to NBA's 50%
“NBA all the way to MLB are somewhere between 51 and 45%.
UFC is 13 to 14%.”
Sanchez: Divorce rates double for female lottery winners, but not men
“When men win the lottery, it's kind of, nothing really changes. They get married at the same rate. They have kids at the same rate. When women win the lottery, the divorce rates double.”
Sanchez: Women control household spending, but men understand overall finances
“The data shows us that women are the, have the purchasing power in the household. Like if you are Amazon or Walmart, you actually want to get to the female. Because she's typically the one doing a lot of the household spending. But the one with the understandi…”
Sanchez: Contrarian's operating businesses generate more revenue than its course community
“We'd make more money categorically from the businesses we own than from the community that we own, for instance. So, like, numerically, categorically, that's just the fact.”
Codie Sanchez has never raised operating business capital from her audience
“I've never, ever raised money for any of the businesses that I invest in from my audience. Ever. Not once. Not once have I asked for a dollar for that.”
Sanchez: Reese Witherspoon's net worth is an order of magnitude higher than Brad Pitt's
“Reese Witherspoon is worth more than Brad Pitt at an order of magnitude.”
The other half of the tape: Codie Sanchez's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 36 times in 18 episodes across the shows. 30 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
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Statements about Codie Sanchez, by other people (30)
Gary Vee: Financially supporting adult children signals they are losers
“Because parents don't realize if you're paying for your kid when they're a grown adult, you're telling your kid you don't believe in them. Through your actions, not your words. They know they're a loser. Yeah. That shit hurts. You know?”
Adelman: Scaling to $10 million is much harder than $100M to $1B
“That first 1,000,010 million are much harder than the hundred million to a billion.”
Brooks: Two-thirds of men prefer electric shocks over sitting in silence
“Two-thirds of the guys Would prefer to shock themselves painfully. One guy shocked himself a 190 times in 15 minutes, had to be thrown out of the experiment for being a sick and twisted freak.”
2 Chainz: Children should unashamedly leverage their parents' fame to get ahead
“I'm trying to get that in my little nepo babies. They don't want to say my name. Like, you should, Totally use my name to. To the best of your ability to get whatever you need.”
Senra: Marriages of the Greatest Entrepreneurs Are Typically Terrible
“Terrible. They're terrible. I mean, there's very few people because you tend to be obsessed. Like I also think like it's important to note. So the people that appear on founders podcasts, right? They were so good at their jobs that somebody wrote a book about …”
Vivian Tu: Couples Should Split Expenses Equitably Rather Than 50/50
“I think every couple should split things in an equitable fashion. That can be proportional. Doesn't have to be. That can be, oh, one partner just says, I'm gonna cover it all because you make so much less than me that I want you to save and invest your money.”
Bernstein: People lacking confidence should lower goals to match belief
“This isn't going to be something that you want to hear because it's a little off brand, but I would say change the goals because we don't want to be reaching for things that we don't believe in. If we have a goal that feels out of alignment with what we believ…”
Bernstein: Personal healing forces a partner to either do the work or separate
“In your self led energetic state, your partner has two choices. They can rise up to the occasion and get to work on their own, or they can stay stuck in their parts. And that's when a relationship choice is made. You know, is this, are we gonna grow together o…”
Poumpouras: Prioritizing personal dress over company culture isolates you from career opportunities
“When you do that, you make it about yourself. So what you're also saying is, I'm not a team player. I just care about me, and I dress for me, and I do me, and whoever likes me. And again, you can do that, but you will be isolating yourself from opportunities a…”
Perkins: Wealthy investors actively seek capable executors over ideas
“The money is easy. It's having an idea that you can execute on. There's tons of money. There's tons of rich guys that don't want to work. They just want to invest in somebody and make a good return.”
Manson: People develop progressive desensitization to fear and financial stakes over time
“But it's, I mean, it's like anything though, right? Like, I mean, it's, you, you've, you climb that ladder with money too, right? Like, it's like the first time you have a five figure deal, you're sweating bullets. You know, now it's like, You don't even, prob…”
Shift Conversations to the Future Tense to Neutralize Resentment
“One of the most powerful things you can do to make a conversation more productive, especially when there's been resentment and hurt in the past. Just focus on the grammatical tense of the conversation. Pain, resentment, frustration, judgment, all of that exist…”
Hussey: Intelligent women threaten men who date primarily for validation
“I think that's what happens is women's intelligence throws a lot of men off balance when they're already coming from a place of insecurity.”
Graziosi: Give failing business partnerships full attentiveness for 90 days before quitting
“What I always thought about is, what if you're in a relationship, you're not sure, like, should this be over? Business or personal? And you just treat it the next 90 days like the first 90 days. You were a little more respectful. You actually did active listen…”
Graziosi: Delegate low-rate tasks to reinvest time into high-earning core competencies
“Get somebody to do that, but replace that time immediately with the needle mover. And then as you get more and more in business, you get closer to the ring. There might be a time where Something's 300 dollars an hour, but you know you're making 3000 an hour, s…”
Fisher: Firing comebacks to insults escalates conflict until the last speaker loses
“When somebody is insulting you, where you lose, is you send the Zynga right back. So let's say you're at a three, and they send you something that puts you at a five. We have a choice. Do I rise to the level of it, or do I keep it there? Because if you rise to…”
Fisher: Complainers will not listen until they exhaust all grievances
“You have to let them get it all out or they're not going to listen to you, period.”
Levesque: I Reject Any Opportunity That Conflicts With My Five Values
“Cody, if there's something on my schedule that doesn't lie with one of those fives, a person, a place, a thing, a business opportunity, an investment, I'm just not doing it. I don't give a fuck. I'm not doing it. I'm just not doing it. It's, that's how stubbor…”
Alexander: Holding warm beverages causes people to perceive others as warmer
“There was research done with people holding a cold beverage versus holding a warm beverage. If those were holding, this is very clever. I mean, you guys didn't do this intentionally. But me holding a warm beverage Right now, based on the research, would cause …”
Dial: Pushing through six minutes of task anxiety unlocks focused flow states
“So all you have to do is fight through on average the first six minutes. And that's it. And you fight through those six minutes and your brain will actually start to become more focused. That's one of the most interesting things that I think is when we feel st…”
Dial: People only change when staying the same becomes more painful
“The only time that somebody will really make a change in their life is when the pain of staying the same is more painful than the pain of change.”
Van Edwards: Wiseman Study Shows Product Demonstrators Sell More Making Clumsy Mistakes
“There's studies on this where Dr. Richard Wiseman had a model try to sell a blender in a mall, ok? A blender. And he did two trials of this experiment. One where she did a demo of the blender. Hi, good morning folks. We're going to demo this blender for you. S…”
Voss: Summarize opponents' reality until they confirm it to resolve conflicts
“Summarize to how they see things until they say that's right. Because there's the underlying assumption of that is that your perception of reality is accurate. So while it may be accurate, it's always incomplete. There's no such thing as perfect information.”
Every mention by year
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My First Million 16
the Startup Ideas Podcast 16
Founder's Journal 2
the Knowledge Project 2
2025 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
2024 14 mentions in 8 episodes 2 per episode
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- Brainstorming $1M Business Ideas with Tiago Forte
- Charlie Hoehn: Write Something People Want to Read
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- How I Went From Broke to $7 Million With An Airbnb Business
- The Simple Newsletter Making $20M+ A Year With 1 Employee
- 4 startup ideas using viral loops and memes to get you paid (steal these $1M+/year ideas)
- How To Find MILLION DOLLAR Business Ideas That WORK | Noah Kagan
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
2023 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2022 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Codie's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 BIGDEALLEDGER | Founder & CEO, Contrarian Thinkinghost | 158 | 898 | 52% 133/257 | full record on BigDeal → |
| FOUNDER'S JOURNALLEDGER | Founder & CEO, Contrarian Thinking | 6 | 57 | 33% 2/6 | full record on Founder's Journal → |
| KNOWLEDGE PROJECTLEDGER | Founder & CEO, Contrarian Thinking | 1 | 49 | 40% 2/5 | full record on the Knowledge Project → |
| MY FIRST MILLIONLEDGER | Founder & CEO, Contrarian Thinking | 2 | 34 | 70% 7/10 | full record on My First Million → |
| STARTUP IDEASLEDGER | Founder & CEO, Contrarian Thinking | 1 | 17 | 50% 2/4 | full record on the Startup Ideas Podcast → |