Nick Huber
Co-Founder, Bolt Storage. On 2 shows, 5 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Nick Huber is an entrepreneur and investor who co-founded Bolt Storage and acquired the remote staffing company Somewhere.com. He is the creator and author behind The Sweaty Startup, advocating for service-based businesses, self-storage investing, and remote delegation.
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38said about them ↓ Everything Nick Huber said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Huber: Wealth redistribution would revert to 80/20 inequality within five years
“You could take all the money in the United States right now. You take all the money and you could divide it equally among everybody. Take all the money and divide it equally. And in five, 10, 15 years, you could argue about the timeframe. In five years, at lea…”
Huber: Poorest Americans today live better than wealthiest Americans 50 years ago
“Today the poorest people in America have a better life than the wealthiest people in America 50 years ago. They have better access to healthcare. They have better living situations. They have more amenities. They have better food. It trickles down massively, a…”
Huber: Prevailing victim culture gives accountable families a competitive advantage
“I think this woke mindset and virus is a tremendous advantage for me and my family. The people who buy into it, Our victims, the people who buy into it are blaming other people, the people who buy into it are focusing on things that are totally outside of thei…”
Huber: AI will enrich business owners, not AI companies
“AI will definitely over time make the business owners more money, not necessarily the AI companies.”
Huber: Refusing to leave an inheritance is a parenting cop-out
“A lot of entrepreneurs kind of brag about the fact that they're not going to give anything to their kids. They say it like I am going, I'm going to give all my money away and my kids will find, will get their own cash or opportunity or whatever it is. I think …”
Huber: Advice from successful people is risky for new entrepreneurs
“And also is that everybody who gives advice is a successful person because, you know, you got to have a resume to make your advice weighted, so all the people who have the most, you know, Clout and, you know, status on Twitter, they're all successful people, a…”
Huber: Money is drastically underrated and essential for happiness
“Money is drastically underrated in this world today. The people who say that money doesn't matter are full of shit.”
Huber: Delaying marriage to travel creates bad habits for settling down
“And I personally pretty strongly believe that that's bullshit and actually creates a bunch of bad habits that are really hard to break when you actually do want to settle down.”
Huber: Founders can succeed at a high level working 30 hours
“I think that you can play this game of business at a really high level working 30 hours a week. And the people who say that they can't and that they have to work 70 hours a week are kind of Working on the wrong shit.”
Huber: 95% of people are better off working for a company
“I think 95% of people are way better off going and working for a company. Earning great money, building their skills over time, and then focusing on other areas of life that is not business and entrepreneurship.”
Huber: Tech VCs haven't set foot in a Walmart in 10 years
“These folks have not been in a Walmart in 10 years. They have, they just haven't been in one. They haven't looked at the average American. They have no idea what the average American thinks about, you know, looks for, eats does with their free time. They have …”
Huber: People are overly picky when choosing a marriage partner
“People get way too serious about trying to find that person. I think if you find somebody who you're physically attracted to, You're emotionally stimulated, mentally and emotionally stimulated by, and you can trust them, and you can, that's number one. If you …”
Huber: Raising children is ten times more important than a corporate career
“Me and my wife have very similar moral views, and how we think about Household responsibilities, and jobs, and who does what, and she thinks, and I think as well, that her raising kids is miraculously and 10 times more important than a career. The child that y…”
Huber: Wealthier families are more likely to coddle their children
“The more well off a parent and family is, the more they coddle their kids, and the more they try to keep them from feeling pain.”
Huber: Capable parents have a duty to have many children
“It is my duty as a person who I think at least that I have my shit together when it comes to parenting and that I'm going to raise decent kids. It's my duty to create as many as I possibly can.”
Huber: Persistent high interest rates will bankrupt many real estate syndicators
“And if this keeps up and interest rates stay high for another couple of years, It'll be no different this time, and a lot of people who do what I do and raise money from outside investors will go bankrupt, and the people who invested the money will lose the mo…”
Storage Squad reached $2M revenue without paid ads using sidewalk chalk
“We didn't do paid ads until 2017 when we were over two million a year of revenue. It was sidewalk chalk.”
Huber: Beehiiv has a terrible domain nobody can spell or remember
“Terrible, terrible, terrible domain. And all I did was chirp Tyler Dank on Twitter for a year and a half because he was, he's great. Like he's an unbelievable entrepreneur, but he was he was running his business with a domain that nobody could spell and nobody…”
Huber: AI recruiting and sourcing tools pitched to him are 'absolutely terrible'
“So I've been pitched, I'm in the recruiting business. I've been pitched 30 plus simply recruiting and sourcing AI models. I don't, first of all, they all are absolutely terrible. No candidate wants to go through AI sourcing in an AI interview. It's ridiculous.”
Huber: 99% of AI startups will fail to become profitable
“Yeah, I would probably say 99% won't make its profitability, but in 90, but 90% will like be a loss for the founder”
Huber: Competing in tech is like playing LeBron James for a billion
“I say like, do you want to compete against LeBron James or a fifth grade girl in basketball? The winner gets something amazing. Like you beat LeBron, you get a billion dollars. You beat the third grade girl, fifth grade girl, you get 30 grand a month. I I'd pl…”
Huber: Great viral tweets state controversial ideas as fact without nuance
“That's the structure of a great tweet. So something that not everybody agrees with said as fact with conviction, and then a bunch of really strongly written copy to back it up.”
Huber: Salespeople living paycheck to paycheck with $120k Escalades work harder
“I love to hire salespeople who are paycheck to paycheck, but drive a 120,000 dollar white Escalade. Because they're super motivated to sell, and they are highly determined to make it rain, and they'll work super hard because they're cash strapped.”
The other half of the tape: Nick Huber's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 35 times in 16 episodes across the shows. 3 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Greg Isenberg 20Sahil Bloom 8Nathan Barry 4Soren Iverson 2Harry Campbell 1
Statements about Nick Huber, by other people (3)
Isenberg: Top writers like Sahil Bloom make $5M a year
“Like, you used to get paid 50,000 dollars to write, and now the greatest writers, Sahil Blooms and the Nick Hubers, are getting paid five million dollars a year to write.”
Isenberg: Nick Huber took an equity stake in somewhere.com to drive leads
“Nick Huber, sweaty startup on Twitter, has a lot of traffic, a lot of people, a lot of eyeballs, and he partnered with it was previously called Support Shepherd, now it's called Somewhere, where he was basically like, I'm going to generate leads for you, And t…”
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2024 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2023 17 mentions in 6 episodes 3 per episode
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2022 13 mentions in 7 episodes 2 per episode
- Elon's Twitter Takeover and The Future of Social Media with Sriram Krishnan
- How To Invest Like An Optimist With Morgan Housel
- How to Get Rich Building Boring Businesses | Codie Sanchez, Contrarian Thinking
- Forget Zero Sum, Be Positive Sum with Harley Finkelstein | Where It Happens
- Building a Mini Berkshire Hathaway
- $30M by Age 19 — And Where You Should Build Today
- NFTs with Gary Vaynerchuk | Where It Happens
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
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| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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| STARTUP IDEASLEDGER | Co-Founder, Bolt Storage | 4 | 71 | 100% 5/5 | full record on the Startup Ideas Podcast → |
 20VCLEDGER | Co-Founder, Bolt Storage | 1 | 40 | — | full record on 20VC → |