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Mike Posner

Musician, Songwriter, and Adventurer, Monster Mountain · 1 appearance on the record.

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Mike Posner is a Grammy-nominated artist known for multi-platinum global hits including "Cooler Than Me" and "I Took a Pill in Ibiza." Beyond music, he has undertaken major endurance challenges, including walking across the United States in 2019 and summiting Mount Everest in 2021.

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2 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 1 not checkable as stated how the 3 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

3 assertions · 2 opinions · 6 insights · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Mike argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Posner: Early music gained traction on 2DopeBoyz, Nah Right, and Kanye's blog
“I was getting a little bit of traction on these hip hop blogs, which were important in hip hop at the time. Blogs like Two Dope Boys, Nah Right, even Kanye's blog, which is a really big deal at the time.”
Mike Posner Oct 25, 2024 ▶ 2:30 How Mike Posner built a music empire from his dorm room

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weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Mike Posner on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Mike Posner said on My First Million that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Posner: Great artistry is vulnerability and human connection, not technical skill
“Music is not about hitting the high, it's like life, it's not about hitting the perfect no or doing the run, it's about, does it, does this part of my humanity speak to that part of your humanity? I'm raising my hand, I'm taking my clothes off out here, and it…”
Mike Posner Oct 25, 2024 ▶ 17:08 How Mike Posner built a music empire from his dorm room
Insight
Posner: Labels no longer develop artists without an existing audience
“So these days of a record label are, Hey kid, you got talent. We're gonna develop you for six years. Like that doesn't happen. And now it's even more so. You only get a record deal if you already have an audience. So that, that no longer is, you know, the resp…”
Mike Posner Oct 25, 2024 ▶ 21:19 How Mike Posner built a music empire from his dorm room
Insight
Posner: Record labels cannot start fires, only pour gasoline
“And that's what labels are great at. It's not so great at starting fires, but if you could start a fire, they got a hell of a lot of gasoline.”
Mike Posner Oct 25, 2024 ▶ 25:41 How Mike Posner built a music empire from his dorm room
Insight
Posner: Artists must win Spotify before radio, reversing historical trends
“You win Spotify and get on the radio, or you win YouTube and you get on the radio. Then it was the opposite.”
Mike Posner Oct 25, 2024 ▶ 26:01 How Mike Posner built a music empire from his dorm room
Insight
Posner: Emotional pain and reluctance signal ideas worth writing about
“A huge, huge barometer of something I should be writing is that, oh, I really don't want to write this. This moment was so painful. Like, I don't want to talk about it. I don't want to think about it. So yeah, that, that it's not the only, you know, it's not t…”
Mike Posner Oct 25, 2024 ▶ 34:46 How Mike Posner built a music empire from his dorm room
Insight
Posner: Taking on harder goals paradoxically makes life feel easier
“I'm gonna make my life harder, but then paradoxically, my life feels easier when I'm doing the harder thing.”
Mike Posner Oct 25, 2024 ▶ 1:04:36 How Mike Posner built a music empire from his dorm room
Assertion Supported
Posner: Early music gained traction on 2DopeBoyz, Nah Right, and Kanye's blog
“I was getting a little bit of traction on these hip hop blogs, which were important in hip hop at the time. Blogs like Two Dope Boys, Nah Right, even Kanye's blog, which is a really big deal at the time.”
Mike Posner Oct 25, 2024 ▶ 2:30 How Mike Posner built a music empire from his dorm room
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Posner packed Duke classes into three days to play weekend shows
“That senior year I had set up, so I had all my classes Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. I leave Thursday night, rip Thursday night, Friday night, Saturday night. I get three checks, come back, have a bunch of cash, go to the bank, put in the bank, come back in my…”
Mike Posner Oct 25, 2024 ▶ 12:48 How Mike Posner built a music empire from his dorm room
Disclosure
Posner says he is financially secure and never needs music money again
“I'm financially secure. I don't need to make another dollar from my music again.”
Mike Posner Oct 25, 2024 ▶ 38:47 How Mike Posner built a music empire from his dorm room
Opinion
Posner: Benny Blanco excels at drawing peak performance from artists
“He's a master at, yeah, creating the physical space, but him, he knows how to get the best out of the best people in the world.”
Mike Posner Oct 25, 2024 ▶ 58:36 How Mike Posner built a music empire from his dorm room
Assertion Supported
Posner: Finished walk across America despite rattlesnake bite and ICU stay
“Dude, I got bit by a poisonous rattlesnake. I spent three nights in the ICU. I got airlifted. I got told by dispatch I might not live. I got told by doctors it might take me eight months to heal. I got, you know, told by other doctors I might lose my foot. It'…”
Mike Posner Oct 25, 2024 ▶ 1:09:15 How Mike Posner built a music empire from his dorm room
Opinion
Posner: Songwriting, not singing or dancing, is my true musical strength
“I'm definitely not the best singer, definitely, you know, I can't dance or anything or do any cool runs but I'm a damn good writer.”
Mike Posner Oct 25, 2024 ▶ 13:43 How Mike Posner built a music empire from his dorm room
Disclosure
Posner engineers and records all his solo vocal tracks on a laptop
“My whole career, same as when I was in the dorm room, the mic's a little better now, but I have a laptop, nice mic, plugged in a nice pre, and I hit record on the laptop, I sing until I mess up, I hit stop, I engineer the thing myself, that way I can record wh…”
Mike Posner Oct 25, 2024 ▶ 1:01:42 How Mike Posner built a music empire from his dorm room

The other half of the tape: Mike Posner's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 39 times in 5 episodes on My First Million. 5 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Shaan Puri 39

Statements about Mike Posner, by other people (5)

Insight
Puri: Creators succeed by making what they find cool rather than chasing hits
“I'm just gonna make what's cool to me, and sometimes, the whole world will agree. And I just thought that was such a dope philosophy as a creator to take, which is, I'm just gonna make what's dope for me, and then once in a while, the whole world will agree wi…”
Shaan Puri Dec 30, 2024 ▶ 56:25 The 2024 Milly Awards
Insight
Shaan Puri: Creators should build what they like rather than chase hits
“And I just thought that is a wonderful banner cry for a creator, an artist, is to say, I just make what's cool to me, and sometimes the whole world agrees.”
Shaan Puri Oct 30, 2024 ▶ 25:44 Q&A: Gut punches, favorite guests, plus advice for life
Assertion Supported
Puri: Mike Posner topped Apple's iTunes U charts while at Duke
“The first interesting thing I saw was that at some point I opened up my laptop and I went to iTunes and I saw you at the top of iTunes, but it wasn't the top of iTunes. It was the top of iTunes U.”
Shaan Puri Oct 25, 2024 ▶ 1:15 How Mike Posner built a music empire from his dorm room
Insight
Puri: Mike Posner only created hit songs when not trying
“Which is like, all of his hits have come from a place where he wasn't trying to make a hit, and every time he's tried to make a hit, he didn't make a hit, right?”
Shaan Puri Oct 4, 2024 ▶ 24:00 5 Random But Useful Things I Learned At A Private Equity Conference
Assertion Supported
Mike Posner Hit Number One by Growth Hacking iTunes U
“He released his song on iTunes U because he was in school. So he could only somebody, only a student or professor could put content on iTunes U, which was like the subsection of iTunes. And because most of the things that go up there are like extremely academi…”
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2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2024 30 mentions in 3 episodes 10 per episode
2021 8 mentions in 1 episode

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
How Mike Posner built a music empire from his dorm room Oct 25, 2024 42m
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