James Altucher

11 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 3 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement May 14, 2024 by James Altucher · said 4 times in 2 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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May 14, 2024 positive
Insight
Altucher: Sharing ideas for free builds goodwill, charging creates zero goodwill
“You didn't charge. Like, you should absolutely not charge for, you know, if someone just wants to meet, or if someone wants you to share your ideas with their team, just go out, and you build up so much goodwill. With the good, there's zero goodwill if they ju…”
James Altucher May 14, 2024 ▶ 20:35 If I was broke in 2024, here’s exactly what I’d do… (feat. James Altucher)
May 14, 2024 negative
Opinion
Altucher: Finance Media Figures Falsely Pretend They Are Never Wrong
“Finance, nobody was doing that. Like, I realized like, everybody was perfect in finance. They never were wrong. They were on CNBC, like, oh, well, of course, they're gonna raise, decrease interest rates, and the market's gonna go up or down, and everybody's, l…”
James Altucher May 14, 2024 ▶ 3:36 If I was broke in 2024, here’s exactly what I’d do… (feat. James Altucher)
May 14, 2024
Disclosure
Altucher: Raised thousands of dollars on Indiegogo in campaign to buy Greenland
“I made a Kickstarter to buy Greenland, and they kicked me off, but then Indiegogo, I think, let me do it, and I started raising, like, thousands of dollars.”
James Altucher May 14, 2024 ▶ 18:24 If I was broke in 2024, here’s exactly what I’d do… (feat. James Altucher)
May 14, 2024 negative
Insight
Altucher: Positive customer feedback carries zero informational value
“When someone says something positive, it actually has no informational value.”
James Altucher May 14, 2024 ▶ 29:13 If I was broke in 2024, here’s exactly what I’d do… (feat. James Altucher)
May 14, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Altucher: Cold-emailing daily idea lists led to speaking gigs at Google, Facebook, and Airbnb
“And I've been doing this now, writing 10 ideas a day for over 20 years. I've, because I send many of them out, I've been invited to speak at Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, I spoke at Airbnb's main conference. I've been out to Quora and met, met all of them, and j…”
James Altucher May 14, 2024 ▶ 13:54 If I was broke in 2024, here’s exactly what I’d do… (feat. James Altucher)
May 14, 2024 neutral
Assertion Contradicted
Altucher: Google Manually Replaced His Post With Suicide Hotline
“There was a point where, because I wrote about this, there was a point where if you Googled, how do I kill myself, I was like the number one search result on Google, and then enough people complained that Google had to manually put in the national suicide hotl…”
James Altucher May 14, 2024 ▶ 6:06 If I was broke in 2024, here’s exactly what I’d do… (feat. James Altucher)
May 14, 2024
Insight
Altucher: People Connect Deeply Through Shared Failures, Not Superficial Wealth
“And it's a, the language of the, our past fears and failures, that is the real way we all connect. Like if we all just had like a billion dollars and we met at cocktail parties, we're going to connect in this real superficial way. But if we're saying, look, I …”
James Altucher May 14, 2024 ▶ 2:54 If I was broke in 2024, here’s exactly what I’d do… (feat. James Altucher)
May 14, 2024
Insight
Altucher: Replying to online detractors gives them your audience
“And not only that, you lend your complete, legitimate, valid audience to him for that tweet. And so he can now use that audience for his purpose. That certainly wasn't your intent. So that's why now I'm very careful about, like, every time I click reply, and I…”
James Altucher May 14, 2024 ▶ 38:31 If I was broke in 2024, here’s exactly what I’d do… (feat. James Altucher)
May 14, 2024 negative
Assertion Supported
Altucher: Jerry Seinfeld wrote NYT op-ed attacking him, Cuomo emailed it
“Even Jerry Seinfeld wrote an op-ed in the New York Times just trashing me, which then Andrew Cuomo emailed to, like, everybody in New York State”
James Altucher May 14, 2024 ▶ 34:01 If I was broke in 2024, here’s exactly what I’d do… (feat. James Altucher)
May 14, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Altucher: A hedge fund manager gave him $5M without understanding his software
“And somebody, a big hedge fund manager, I sent them my software for how I do my investing, and he said, well, I don't get your software, but I'll give you five million dollars to manage, and then I started a hedge fund out of that.”
James Altucher May 14, 2024 ▶ 14:58 If I was broke in 2024, here’s exactly what I’d do… (feat. James Altucher)
Apr 28, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
James Altucher Sold Newsletter Likeness Rights to Agora for Eight Figures
“He sold a newsletter to Agora Financial, and I know James, he's a great guy, for, I'd guess, eight figures. I didn't ask him. And they had the right to email for a set period of time as him.”
Codie Sanchez Apr 28, 2025 ▶ 11:16 The 7 Worst Businesses to Buy Or Start
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