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Jake Ducey

Founder, The 2nd Mind · 1 appearance on the record.

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Ducey gained prominence as an author and youth speaker after publishing titles with Penguin Random House, including The Purpose Principles and Profit from Happiness. Today, he operates a digital personal development platform offering mindset courses and audio programs alongside a large online following.

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0 supported 0 partly supported 1 contradicted 3 not checkable as stated how the 4 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

4 assertions · 1 opinion · 5 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 3 name 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 Jake argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Ducey: 'Into the Wind' is required curriculum in some LA school districts
“Yeah, I make more money still off Into the Wind than the other one, because Into the Wind, that's the self-published, is now required curriculum in school districts in, in Los Angeles, not in all of them, but in some of them, so I make more off that.”
Jake Ducey Jun 22, 2016 ▶ 12:04 EP 310: You Won't Believe How Many Books This 24 Year Old Has Sold

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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 Jake Ducey on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Jake Ducey said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
Ducey: Vanity publishers like Balboa 'rip you off' with $3,900 packages
“A lot of, about Balboa and these companies, you know, for anyone listening, it, it's disheartening to see the self-publishing packages that are 39, 3900, and you get 10 books, they rip you off.”
Jake Ducey Jun 22, 2016 ▶ 6:43 EP 310: You Won't Believe How Many Books This 24 Year Old Has Sold
Assertion Contradicted
Ducey: 'Into the Wind' is required curriculum in some LA school districts
“Yeah, I make more money still off Into the Wind than the other one, because Into the Wind, that's the self-published, is now required curriculum in school districts in, in Los Angeles, not in all of them, but in some of them, so I make more off that.”
Jake Ducey Jun 22, 2016 ▶ 12:04 EP 310: You Won't Believe How Many Books This 24 Year Old Has Sold
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ducey sold 30,000 print copies of his self-published debut
“We sold about 30,000 in print.”
Jake Ducey Jun 22, 2016 ▶ 4:38 EP 310: You Won't Believe How Many Books This 24 Year Old Has Sold
Disclosure
Ducey earned $100,000 in income from his self-published debut
“Oh man, from that book alone, I probably, I printed them myself and still do. So I put it back in, but I probably done it probably about maybe like a hundred, a 100,000.”
Jake Ducey Jun 22, 2016 ▶ 5:02 EP 310: You Won't Believe How Many Books This 24 Year Old Has Sold
Disclosure
Ducey prints self-published books for 75 cents against $14.95 retail
“Listing price. I mean, it's, it says 1495, but I mean, if you self publish, I print them for 75 cents, 74 cents.”
Jake Ducey Jun 22, 2016 ▶ 5:18 EP 310: You Won't Believe How Many Books This 24 Year Old Has Sold
Disclosure
Penguin Random House paid Ducey a $30,000 advance for his second book
“No, it was 30,000.”
Jake Ducey Jun 22, 2016 ▶ 9:11 EP 310: You Won't Believe How Many Books This 24 Year Old Has Sold
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ducey sold 15,000 eBook copies of his self-published debut
“In online, we'd probably done like, it's probably done half of that in eBooks or so.”
Jake Ducey Jun 22, 2016 ▶ 4:46 EP 310: You Won't Believe How Many Books This 24 Year Old Has Sold
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ducey has sold around 20,000 copies of 'The Purpose Principles'
“It's about at that same, I'm about at 20 right now.”
Jake Ducey Jun 22, 2016 ▶ 11:52 EP 310: You Won't Believe How Many Books This 24 Year Old Has Sold
Disclosure
Speaking engagements accounted for 75% of Ducey's income in 2015
“It was probably it was probably 75% of my income.”
Jake Ducey Jun 22, 2016 ▶ 14:30 EP 310: You Won't Believe How Many Books This 24 Year Old Has Sold
Disclosure
Ducey charges corporate organizations a $7,500 speaking fee
“I mean, I do less for schools, but I've been doing 7500 for organizations.”
Jake Ducey Jun 22, 2016 ▶ 21:28 EP 310: You Won't Believe How Many Books This 24 Year Old Has Sold

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
EP 310: You Won't Believe How Many Books This 24 Year Old Has Sold Jun 22, 2016 12m
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