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Dyrdek: Ridiculousness orders scaled from 30 to 500 episodes

Rob Dyrdek · How Tracking Every Second Took Rob Dyrdek from 0 to $405M in Exits | My First Million #224 · Oct 5, 2021 · at 3:58

Rob Dyrdek explains how owning the production company enabled him to negotiate massive episode batch orders with MTV.

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“So I was able to control it at a higher level than traditional talent, which took me from getting 30 episode orders to a 168 episode orders, which then eventually became 500 episode orders, right?”

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