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Contrarian Thinking generates 100M monthly views and millions of subscribers
“Today, I run a company called Contrarian Thinking, about a hundred million views a month, millions of subscribers.”
Codie Sanchez pays most of her executive team more than herself
“In fact, I'm probably one of the least well-paid people at my media company right now, where I pay most of the executive team, if not all of them, more than I make.”
Sanchez bought her first business, a Phoenix laundromat, for $100,000
“The first technically boring business I bought was a laundromat. That was a laundromat that we bought for a 100,000 bucks, give or take... Phoenix, Arizona. So did about 67, 68,000 dollars in profit.”
Sanchez: Lost $50K personal check and wrote off multi-million dollar fund deals
“Like, you know, I've written a check for 50,000 dollars and lost that completely. We had multi-million dollar deals that we had to write off completely when I was at the fund, thankfully.”
Sanchez: MrBeast's Feastables is now a $100M company
“The Feastables, the chocolates or whatever that Mr. Beast has done, when they originally told me about that, I was like, oh God, that's an awful business. Who eats like a whole chocolate bar anyway? And now it's like a hundred million dollar company, which is …”
Sanchez: Reese Witherspoon sold Hello Sunshine for $900 million
“Reese Witherspoon just sold the business for nine hundred million dollars, her Hello Sunshine company.”
Sanchez: Contrarian Thinking generates 60M to 70M views per month
“Right now we have three million followers and we do 60 or seventy million views a month.”
Sanchez: Media business operates with fewer than 10 employees
“Well, inside the boring businesses a lot you know, hundreds, hundreds inside of the media company, very few, you know, less than 10.”
Codie Sanchez negotiated unoffered pro rata rights in PostPilot angel investment
“So I invested in this company called post pilot, which is like these little, you know, you get in the mail postcards basically like, Hey free gym membership class. Or like you had something left in your basket. And I basically, they didn't, they weren't offeri…”