Dickie Bush
Co-Founder, Ship 30 for 30. On 2 shows, 4 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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A former BlackRock hedge fund trader, Dickie Bush created Ship 30 for 30, a cohort-based program that trains participants to build a daily publishing habit. With Nicolas Cole, he expanded his digital publishing ecosystem to include Premium Ghostwriting Academy, Typeshare, and the newsletter Write With AI.
Everything Dickie Bush said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Bush: Quitting a Job Immediately for Entrepreneurship Is a Major Mistake
“I didn't quit right away, which I think is a big mistake a lot of people do, because then I would have been operating from a place of scarcity the entire time.”
Bush: Athletic Greens for pets is the single best business idea
“Your idea on pet supplements. A pet AG one, I think, is the single best business idea in the world right now.”
Bush: Society discourages childhood obsession, funneling kids into corporate jobs
“I think school, other parents, society in general discourages that kind of like obsession or intensity where I'd pick up a new thing and I'd only do that for months and get as good as it as I could quickly. And I always say my parents will let me do whatever I…”
Bush: Twitter accounts that mock thread writers play the same engagement game
“Like you look at some of these people on Twitter who have their entire thing on Twitter has become making fun of people writing on Twitter. But all they're doing now is trying to get likes on Twitter the same way the other person is doing. They're just appeali…”
Dickie Bush: Writing businesses on track to generate $10M in 2024
“Now, two or three years later, I am a full time writer with a portfolio of writing based businesses on pace to do ten million dollars in 2024.”
Ship 30 for 30 generated $1M at a 90% margin in 2021
“So, 20, 21, ShipThirty did a million, like, 90% margin.”
Bush: Ghostwriting for Existing Audiences Is the Fastest Way to Monetize Writing
“The fastest way to monetize is actually build the skill yourself and then Borrow someone else's audience and ghostwrite for them.”
Fear of high school peers' judgment holds aspiring creators back most
“If there's anything that's holding someone back from creating on the internet more than any other factor, it's What their high school friends are going to think about them if they see them on Twitter, like writing.”
Bush: Portfolio founders should delegate execution to operators to protect risk-reward
“And I think from a portfolio company perspective, that's where you want to get to. Because right now you go, I'd have to write it. I'd have to do the research. I'd have to, and it's just not worth the upside. The risk reward relative to the other opportunities…”
Bush: Paid newsletters better align incentives than one-off products
“Versus a lot of other companies that when you sell a one-off product, It's the last thing and it aligns incentives for you to continue to deliver high quality information because you're going to lose that customer and then the ability to sell them more things.”
Bush: Niche health Twitter predicts mainstream wellness trends by two years
“Esoteric health Twitter Is always two years ahead of like everyone else. So they're already on that train of like anti-optimization now leaning more into like intuition and things like that.”
Bush: Luxury rentals capture 90% of value before hedonic adaptation hits
“I think about that a lot with like the hedonic adaptation of nice things, like renting a nice car, you can get 90% of the benefit, and then you, like, if you rent a really nice car for three days, on the fourth day, you start to pick out things about the car t…”
Bush: Playing RuneScape taught him more about business than college
“I, to this day, learned more playing RuneScape about business, economies, working with a team, monotonous work than I learned in college or really anything.”
Bush: Generic tool roundup threads build audience size, not personal relationships
“If you only write threads about Google docs and, you know, Chrome extensions, you're not building any kind of personal relationship, but it's okay if you choose to play that game.”
Bush: Audience engagement stems from posting about one niche for 18 months
“The only reason people are paying attention to that is because I talked about a singular thing pretty much every single day for a year and a half.”
Dickie Bush: Ship 30 for 30 generates around $3M annually
“The first is Ship 30 for 30, which is a Community power writing course that helps beginners who've never written anything start writing online. That one does about three million dollars per year.”
Dickie Bush: Premium Ghostwriting Academy generates roughly $5M annually
“The second is the premium ghostwriting Academy, which helps beginner freelance writers to position themselves as premium ghostwriters. That's a group evergreen group coaching model. That one does about five million dollars a year.”
Dickie Bush: Write With AI newsletter is pacing toward $500K revenue
“Then we have right with AI, which is a paid newsletter for training AI writing tools to become your personal writing intern. That one's on pace to do 500 K this year.”
Naval and Balaji retweets grew Dickie Bush's newsletter to 1,000 subscribers
“That post got retweeted by Naval Balogy, a handful of other kind of high profile people. It had four or 5000 likes. I dropped my newsletter at the bottom and went from 250 subscribers to a thousand.”
Bush: Their newsletters generate $300k annually, targeting $1M in 2024
“We're going to have paid newsletters as of right now that are 300 K a year between right with AI fiction writing, and then write your way to wealth. We want to build that to a million this year.”
Bush: 95% of his weekly network came from writing online
“It's how I met 95% of the people that I talk to on a weekly basis now.”
The other half of the tape: Dickie Bush's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 24 times in 5 episodes across the shows. 3 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Nicolas Cole 14Greg Isenberg 10
Statements about Dickie Bush, by other people (3)
Cole: The Largest Demand in Any Niche Comes From Beginners
“Where, where do you create the most demand? It's all the people who haven't started yet beginning, right? So take any niche, any category, anything. Web three, get more specific. Start web three. Community, get more specific. Start a community. And if all you …”
Isenberg: Nicolas Cole and Dickie Bush make millions yearly with writing courses
“They do millions of dollars a year in the writing space. So they have something called chip 30 for 30 and PGA professional ghostwriting Academy.”
Every mention by year
tap a year for its mentions
the Startup Ideas Podcast 24
2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2024 1 mention in 1 episode
2023 21 mentions in 2 episodes 11 per episode
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Dickie's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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| STARTUP IDEASLEDGER | Co-Founder, Ship 30 for 30 | 3 | 12 | — | full record on the Startup Ideas Podcast → |
 STARTER STORYLEDGER | Co-Founder, Ship 30 for 30 | 1 | 10 | — | full record on Starter Story → |