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Dickie Bush

Co-Founder, Ship 30 for 30 · 3 appearances on the record.

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A former BlackRock hedge fund trader, Dickie Bush created Ship 30 for 30, a cohort-based program that trains participants to build a daily publishing habit. With Nicolas Cole, he expanded his digital publishing ecosystem to include Premium Ghostwriting Academy, Typeshare, and the newsletter Write With AI.

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1 assertion · 1 opinion · 8 insights · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertion are the 1 claim: statements the public record can support or contradict. 0 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 Dickie argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

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

Opinion
Bush: Athletic Greens for pets is the single best business idea
“Your idea on pet supplements. A pet AG one, I think, is the single best business idea in the world right now.”
Dickie Bush Jan 18, 2024 ▶ 5:38 How To Make $10 MILLION from scratch
Insight
Bush: Society discourages childhood obsession, funneling kids into corporate jobs
“I think school, other parents, society in general discourages that kind of like obsession or intensity where I'd pick up a new thing and I'd only do that for months and get as good as it as I could quickly. And I always say my parents will let me do whatever I…”
Dickie Bush Jan 19, 2023 ▶ 5:37 Why a Gamer Mindset Can Change Your Life and Business with Nicolas Cole and Dickie Bush
Insight
Bush: Twitter accounts that mock thread writers play the same engagement game
“Like you look at some of these people on Twitter who have their entire thing on Twitter has become making fun of people writing on Twitter. But all they're doing now is trying to get likes on Twitter the same way the other person is doing. They're just appeali…”
Dickie Bush Jan 19, 2023 ▶ 23:23 Why a Gamer Mindset Can Change Your Life and Business with Nicolas Cole and Dickie Bush
Insight
Bush: Portfolio founders should delegate execution to operators to protect risk-reward
“And I think from a portfolio company perspective, that's where you want to get to. Because right now you go, I'd have to write it. I'd have to do the research. I'd have to, and it's just not worth the upside. The risk reward relative to the other opportunities…”
Dickie Bush May 22, 2024 ▶ 21:56 3 startup ideas using data/trends to get you paid (steal these $300k/month ideas)
Insight
Bush: Paid newsletters better align incentives than one-off products
“Versus a lot of other companies that when you sell a one-off product, It's the last thing and it aligns incentives for you to continue to deliver high quality information because you're going to lose that customer and then the ability to sell them more things.”
Dickie Bush Jan 18, 2024 ▶ 11:18 How To Make $10 MILLION from scratch
Insight
Bush: Niche health Twitter predicts mainstream wellness trends by two years
“Esoteric health Twitter Is always two years ahead of like everyone else. So they're already on that train of like anti-optimization now leaning more into like intuition and things like that.”
Dickie Bush Jan 18, 2024 ▶ 42:00 How To Make $10 MILLION from scratch
Insight
Bush: Luxury rentals capture 90% of value before hedonic adaptation hits
“I think about that a lot with like the hedonic adaptation of nice things, like renting a nice car, you can get 90% of the benefit, and then you, like, if you rent a really nice car for three days, on the fourth day, you start to pick out things about the car t…”
Dickie Bush Jan 18, 2024 ▶ 51:18 How To Make $10 MILLION from scratch
Insight
Bush: Playing RuneScape taught him more about business than college
“I, to this day, learned more playing RuneScape about business, economies, working with a team, monotonous work than I learned in college or really anything.”
Dickie Bush Jan 19, 2023 ▶ 2:38 Why a Gamer Mindset Can Change Your Life and Business with Nicolas Cole and Dickie Bush
Insight
Bush: Generic tool roundup threads build audience size, not personal relationships
“If you only write threads about Google docs and, you know, Chrome extensions, you're not building any kind of personal relationship, but it's okay if you choose to play that game.”
Dickie Bush Jan 19, 2023 ▶ 19:25 Why a Gamer Mindset Can Change Your Life and Business with Nicolas Cole and Dickie Bush
Disclosure
Bush: Audience engagement stems from posting about one niche for 18 months
“The only reason people are paying attention to that is because I talked about a singular thing pretty much every single day for a year and a half.”
Dickie Bush Jan 19, 2023 ▶ 31:08 Why a Gamer Mindset Can Change Your Life and Business with Nicolas Cole and Dickie Bush
Disclosure
Bush: Their newsletters generate $300k annually, targeting $1M in 2024
“We're going to have paid newsletters as of right now that are 300 K a year between right with AI fiction writing, and then write your way to wealth. We want to build that to a million this year.”
Dickie Bush Jan 18, 2024 ▶ 17:40 How To Make $10 MILLION from scratch
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bush: 95% of his weekly network came from writing online
“It's how I met 95% of the people that I talk to on a weekly basis now.”
Dickie Bush Jan 19, 2023 ▶ 7:39 Why a Gamer Mindset Can Change Your Life and Business with Nicolas Cole and Dickie Bush

The other half of the tape: Dickie Bush's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 24 times in 5 episodes on the Startup Ideas Podcast. 3 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Nicolas Cole 14Greg Isenberg 10

Statements about Dickie Bush, by other people (3)

Insight
Cole: The Largest Demand in Any Niche Comes From Beginners
“Where, where do you create the most demand? It's all the people who haven't started yet beginning, right? So take any niche, any category, anything. Web three, get more specific. Start web three. Community, get more specific. Start a community. And if all you …”
Nicolas Cole Jan 19, 2023 ▶ 43:16 Why a Gamer Mindset Can Change Your Life and Business with Nicolas Cole and Dickie Bush
Assertion Supported
Isenberg: Nicolas Cole and Dickie Bush make millions yearly with writing courses
“They do millions of dollars a year in the writing space. So they have something called chip 30 for 30 and PGA professional ghostwriting Academy.”
Greg Isenberg May 15, 2024 ▶ 47:16 5 game-changing startup ideas from a life hacking genius
Assertion Supported
Nicholas Cole and Dickie Bush generate seven figures from their writing course
“These guys, Nicholas Cole and Dickie Bush, and they're making seven figures from their community and online course business, which focuses on teaching people how to write.”
Greg Isenberg Mar 3, 2023 ▶ 38:14 From Zero to 2M+: How Josh Dorkin Built the Bigger Pockets Community

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Appearances (3)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
3 startup ideas using data/trends to get you paid (steal these $300k/month ideas) May 22, 2024 7m
How To Make $10 MILLION from scratch Jan 18, 2024 15m
Why a Gamer Mindset Can Change Your Life and Business with Nicolas Cole and Dickie Bush Jan 19, 2023 16m
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