Ryan Holiday

Founder & Host, The Daily Stoic · 1 appearance on the record.

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Ryan Holiday is an author and former Director of Marketing at American Apparel who popularizes Stoic philosophy. He is best known for bestselling books including The Obstacle Is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy, as well as the Daily Stoic platform and podcast.

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Prediction Not checkable as stated

Holiday in 2016: Trump's campaign tactics will make him a horrible president

“What's made Donald Trump a great campaigner will ultimately make him a horrible president, and maybe even make it impossible for him to actually become president, because he is not actually aware of why what he's doing is working, right?”

Ryan Holiday Jun 20, 2016 ▶ 20:41 EP 331: Trump Suicide Predicted By Best-Seller Ryan Holliday, Sites Ego

Disclosure

Holiday issued a fake press release doubling his book advance to $500,000

“And then the first thing I did was I took that, and I put out a press release that said I'd sold it for a half a million dollars, because I wanted to illustrate how, like, people just trust whatever is in a press release.”

Ryan Holiday Jun 20, 2016 ▶ 4:21 EP 331: Trump Suicide Predicted By Best-Seller Ryan Holliday, Sites Ego

Opinion

Holiday: Steve Jobs deserved to be fired from Apple in 1985

“So you look at someone like Steve Jobs, like, look, he was fired by Apple, and he deserved to be fired. He was horrible. If you were John Scully. You would have fired Steve Jobs. Because he wasn't delivering on sales, and he was unmanageable, and he was destro…”

Ryan Holiday Jun 20, 2016 ▶ 23:07 EP 331: Trump Suicide Predicted By Best-Seller Ryan Holliday, Sites Ego

Insight

Holiday: Effective marketing requires attacking a sacred cow

“Part of successful marketing and copywriting is picking a sacred cow and slaying it, right? And attacking some commonly held or sacred belief.”

Ryan Holiday Jun 20, 2016 ▶ 12:42 EP 331: Trump Suicide Predicted By Best-Seller Ryan Holliday, Sites Ego

Disclosure

Holiday refuses to announce projects publicly until they are completed

“So, so personally, I'm someone who, I don't articulate what I'm going to do except to myself or, you know, to like a close group of people. I don't want to get reputational advantages from what I'm theoretically going to do. I want to get credit for them when …”

Ryan Holiday Jun 20, 2016 ▶ 27:55 EP 331: Trump Suicide Predicted By Best-Seller Ryan Holliday, Sites Ego

Disclosure

Holiday: Penguin paid a $250,000 advance for his first book

“A quarter of a million dollars.”

Ryan Holiday Jun 20, 2016 ▶ 3:51 EP 331: Trump Suicide Predicted By Best-Seller Ryan Holliday, Sites Ego

Disclosure

Holiday earned mid-six figures in total from Growth Hacker Marketing

“I've now, I would have made, you know, mid six figures at this point on, all in on that book, even though it started really small.”

Ryan Holiday Jun 20, 2016 ▶ 5:45 EP 331: Trump Suicide Predicted By Best-Seller Ryan Holliday, Sites Ego

The other half of the tape: Ryan Holiday's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 40 times in 15 episodes on Top Founders. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Nathan Latka 18 Nathan Berry 10 Jake Ducey 6 Landon Ray 3 Omar Zenhom 1 David Freund 1 Chase Jarvis 1

Statements about Ryan Holiday, by other people (1)

Disclosure

Nathan Berry co-invested with Ryan Holiday to buy Cerro Gordo ghost town

“And I had known Brent Underwood from, cause he has an agency with Ryan and they run the website daily stoic together, which is a ConvertKit customer. And so I'd known him somewhat, you know but Ryan was the one that kind of pulled me in and it was just this th…”

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