Anthony Pompliano

Founder & CEO, Professional Capital Management · 1 appearance on the record.

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Anthony Pompliano is the founder and CEO of Professional Capital Management and the host of The Pomp Podcast. He previously led product and growth teams at Facebook and Snapchat, and co-founded Full Tilt Capital and Morgan Creek Digital.

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The record, in short

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Everything Anthony Pompliano said on the Startup Ideas Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion

Pompliano: Evidence for human-driven climate change is not compelling

“It is obvious temperatures are changing. Things are in some cases getting better, in some cases getting worse, but the evidence of human driven change is not nearly as compelling as many people think.”

Anthony Pompliano Nov 9, 2023 ▶ 1:19 How To Build A Media Business With Anthony Pompliano

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Pompliano: Very Few One-Person Companies Will Ever Reach $100M in Revenue

“I don't think that we are going to see very many one person companies reach significant scale measured in nine figures of revenue.”

Anthony Pompliano Nov 9, 2023 ▶ 18:57 How To Build A Media Business With Anthony Pompliano

Insight

Pompliano: Content that repels a large audience attracts another large audience

“When I evaluate content, newsletters, media properties, I ask myself, is this content going to repel some large portion of people? Because if it is going to repel some large portion of people, it will attract another large portion of people.”

Anthony Pompliano Nov 9, 2023 ▶ 5:29 How To Build A Media Business With Anthony Pompliano

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Pompliano: Bay Area Times pioneered the visual newsletter format

“We have Bay Area times. It is a newsletter focused on business, tech, and finance. We pioneered something called a visual newsletter.”

Anthony Pompliano Nov 9, 2023 ▶ 6:17 How To Build A Media Business With Anthony Pompliano

Opinion

Pompliano: Warren Buffett created the creator economy as a financial influencer

“Warren Buffett created the creator economy. Everyone gets mad when I say that on wall street, but the guy is 100% on a financial influencer.”

Anthony Pompliano Nov 9, 2023 ▶ 17:47 How To Build A Media Business With Anthony Pompliano

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Pompliano: Joe Rogan generates $50M revenue per employee on a two-person team

“Joe Rogan's got two employees himself and one other person, and they have a hundred million dollar deal with Spotify. They do fifty million dollars per employee.”

Anthony Pompliano Nov 9, 2023 ▶ 18:16 How To Build A Media Business With Anthony Pompliano

Insight

Pompliano: Public narrative often matters more than fundamental truth in markets

“Sometimes it doesn't matter what the truth is. The public narrative is actually the thing that prevails.”

Anthony Pompliano Nov 9, 2023 ▶ 3:12 How To Build A Media Business With Anthony Pompliano

Disclosure

Pompliano: Bay Area Times reached 260,000 subscribers in five months

“It launched in February of 20, 23. By May, we had 20,000 subscribers. Today it has over 260,000 subscribers. So 12 X growth in four or five months.”

Anthony Pompliano Nov 9, 2023 ▶ 6:44 How To Build A Media Business With Anthony Pompliano

Assertion Partly supported

Pompliano: BuzzFeed generates $400M revenue with 1,000+ staff at $50M market cap

“BuzzFeed has over a thousand employees. They do four hundred million dollars in revenue, and the company's worth fifty million dollars in the public market.”

Anthony Pompliano Nov 9, 2023 ▶ 16:43 How To Build A Media Business With Anthony Pompliano

Insight

Pompliano: Entrepreneurs need financial security before optimizing for long-term impact

“If you look at many of the people who have been able to do this throughout the decades, usually you have to reach some degree of success and have some degree of security before you really have the ability to do that. You trade off short-term income and revenue…”

Anthony Pompliano Nov 9, 2023 ▶ 28:45 How To Build A Media Business With Anthony Pompliano

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Pompliano: Bay Area Times had zero employees for nine months

“With Bay Area times, it was just me and him from February until two weeks ago. There was no employees. There was no anything.”

Anthony Pompliano Nov 9, 2023 ▶ 13:01 How To Build A Media Business With Anthony Pompliano

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Pompliano: Bay Area Times will quickly surpass The Pomp Letter

“Barry at times is very quickly going to become bigger than the pomp letter.”

Anthony Pompliano Nov 9, 2023 ▶ 15:45 How To Build A Media Business With Anthony Pompliano

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Pompliano: Employment Business Placed Over 3,000 People in Two Years

“One example, we've got a business in the employment sector. We've helped over 3000 people get a job in the last two years.”

Anthony Pompliano Nov 9, 2023 ▶ 32:09 How To Build A Media Business With Anthony Pompliano

The other half of the tape: Anthony Pompliano's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 10 times in 7 episodes on the Startup Ideas Podcast. every mention, with the transcript →

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