Nick Huber
Co-Founder, Bolt Storage · 4 appearances on the record.
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Nick Huber is an entrepreneur and investor who co-founded Bolt Storage and acquired the remote staffing company Somewhere.com. He is the creator and author behind The Sweaty Startup, advocating for service-based businesses, self-storage investing, and remote delegation.
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Huber: AI will enrich business owners, not AI companies
“AI will definitely over time make the business owners more money, not necessarily the AI companies.”
Huber: Delaying marriage to travel creates bad habits for settling down
“And I personally pretty strongly believe that that's bullshit and actually creates a bunch of bad habits that are really hard to break when you actually do want to settle down.”
Huber: Persistent high interest rates will bankrupt many real estate syndicators
“And if this keeps up and interest rates stay high for another couple of years, It'll be no different this time, and a lot of people who do what I do and raise money from outside investors will go bankrupt, and the people who invested the money will lose the mo…”
Storage Squad reached $2M revenue without paid ads using sidewalk chalk
“We didn't do paid ads until 2017 when we were over two million a year of revenue. It was sidewalk chalk.”
Huber: Beehiiv has a terrible domain nobody can spell or remember
“Terrible, terrible, terrible domain. And all I did was chirp Tyler Dank on Twitter for a year and a half because he was, he's great. Like he's an unbelievable entrepreneur, but he was he was running his business with a domain that nobody could spell and nobody…”
Huber: AI recruiting and sourcing tools pitched to him are 'absolutely terrible'
“So I've been pitched, I'm in the recruiting business. I've been pitched 30 plus simply recruiting and sourcing AI models. I don't, first of all, they all are absolutely terrible. No candidate wants to go through AI sourcing in an AI interview. It's ridiculous.”
Huber: 99% of AI startups will fail to become profitable
“Yeah, I would probably say 99% won't make its profitability, but in 90, but 90% will like be a loss for the founder”
Huber: Competing in tech is like playing LeBron James for a billion
“I say like, do you want to compete against LeBron James or a fifth grade girl in basketball? The winner gets something amazing. Like you beat LeBron, you get a billion dollars. You beat the third grade girl, fifth grade girl, you get 30 grand a month. I I'd pl…”
Huber: Great viral tweets state controversial ideas as fact without nuance
“That's the structure of a great tweet. So something that not everybody agrees with said as fact with conviction, and then a bunch of really strongly written copy to back it up.”
Huber: Salespeople living paycheck to paycheck with $120k Escalades work harder
“I love to hire salespeople who are paycheck to paycheck, but drive a 120,000 dollar white Escalade. Because they're super motivated to sell, and they are highly determined to make it rain, and they'll work super hard because they're cash strapped.”
Huber: Elon Musk is pushing X toward a TikTok-style all-video model
“Twitter is changing so fast, and I think Elon is, Elon knows what he's doing, and he's chasing engagement, chasing daily active users, and it's going to point him towards a TikTok, Instagram type model. So I'm worried that we're going all video over time on Tw…”
Huber: Building passionate online fans requires taking strong stances
“I think in order to get people to really be a fan, you have to take a stance on something, right? If you're just middle down the road, everybody thinks you're decent and nobody really likes you that much.”
Huber: Provocative tweets create value by weeding out misaligned followers
“The people who block me, I think that's also kind of, there's an advantage there. Like I'm weeding out the people who don't get my sense of humor for one thing, take it too personally, politically, totally disagree with me and people that I wouldn't maybe jive…”
Huber: 2022 real estate downturn will eliminate half of active competitors
“When things turn around, there'll be half as many competitors. As there are right now, because over the last five years, everybody who has bought assets, no matter how well, how good of a job they do managing them has made money.”
Huber: Real estate is not the best wealth builder when starting with nothing
“But if you're starting with nothing, and you're trying to get, get somewhere and build wealth, I don't personally think that real estate's the best way. So I would agree with you like, wait till you have some money, then think about how to put that money to wo…”
Huber: Sweat equity means almost nothing in real estate
“Sweat equity means almost nothing in real estate, in my opinion. The people with the cash call the shots.”
Huber: Year-one cash flow in booming markets is impossible without cheap capital
“And cash flow year one is almost non-existent or sometimes impossible to find in those markets for guys like me without the cheap cost of capital.”
Huber: Real-world execution drives large Twitter followings
“And like the number one reason why most people have a ton of followers on Twitter is because they're actually doing something interesting and uncomfortable and hard in their real life.”
Huber: Without his Twitter audience, his net worth would be 90% lower
“If I didn't have Twitter, we would probably own about 10 self-storage facilities right now instead of 61. My net worth would be about 10% of what it is right now.”
Huber: BiggerPockets founders raise $50M monthly from their podcast audience
“The guys who started the podcast with BiggerPockets, they are now raising fifty million, about fifty million dollars a month. They're raising from the BiggerPockets audience. Money to buy real estate and then they're syndicating and they're buying tons and ton…”
Huber: Top Twitter creators succeed by ignoring nuance and provoking readers
“The people who rise up to the top on Twitter are the ones who know how to write clear and concise copy. They know how to ignore nuance. They know how to piss people off. They know how to write things that make smart people think deeply about something.”
Huber: Serious business deals require real personal identity over anonymity
“In general, in business, when it comes to people doing deals with you, when it comes to people wanting to get to know you, when it comes to serious opportunity, That all comes when people get to know a person that they can trust, and they can build rapport wit…”
The other half of the tape: Nick Huber's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 35 times in 16 episodes on the Startup Ideas Podcast. 3 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Greg Isenberg 20Sahil Bloom 8Nathan Barry 4Soren Iverson 2Harry Campbell 1
Statements about Nick Huber, by other people (3)
Isenberg: Top writers like Sahil Bloom make $5M a year
“Like, you used to get paid 50,000 dollars to write, and now the greatest writers, Sahil Blooms and the Nick Hubers, are getting paid five million dollars a year to write.”
Isenberg: Nick Huber took an equity stake in somewhere.com to drive leads
“Nick Huber, sweaty startup on Twitter, has a lot of traffic, a lot of people, a lot of eyeballs, and he partnered with it was previously called Support Shepherd, now it's called Somewhere, where he was basically like, I'm going to generate leads for you, And t…”
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Appearances (4)
| Episode | Date | Speaking time |
|---|---|---|
| The $1,000/Day boring business anyone can start tomorrow | Apr 16, 2025 | 16m |
| Tutorial on how to write tweets with man who gets 1B+ impressions per year | Sep 23, 2024 | 13m |
| Personal Holding Companies: Build vs. Buy? | Aug 17, 2023 | 29m |
| How Nick Huber Built His Wealth: From Sweaty Startup to Real Estate Investor | Dec 22, 2022 | 33m |