David Miller

Founder & CEO, Alchemy of Scale · 1 appearance on the record.

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David Harrison Miller is an entrepreneur and business coach who previously founded and led the wealth management firm PeachCap before launching Alchemy of Scale. He authored the 2016 book Wealth Kryptonite and serves as Chief Strategy Officer at FlowGardens.

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Opinion

Miller: SEC used extreme, unethical enforcement tactics mirroring the show 'Billions'

“If you've seen that show billions, that, that New York AG in there, like they, there were some points of really extreme things that the SEC did that I'm not going to disclose. That is very similar to how they operate in billions. And it's quite unethical, but …”

David Miller May 20, 2025 ▶ 22:24 Trust Is the Most Valuable Intangible Currency in Business

What-if

Miller: Company would have made more money fighting the SEC

“And we would have made a lot more money had I continued fighting, but that risk was out there of, you know, they could impose millions of fines and they could, these legal costs could continue to grow.”

David Miller May 20, 2025 ▶ 21:58 Trust Is the Most Valuable Intangible Currency in Business

Insight

Miller: Emotionally charged feedback from cynics holds valuable lessons for improvement

“Embracing your cynics out there that are emotionally charging you with feedback is sometimes harder to interpret, but there's a lot of golden And gems and the and the cynics out there that are telling you how, how you failed and how to get better.”

David Miller May 20, 2025 ▶ 1:47 Trust Is the Most Valuable Intangible Currency in Business

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Miller predicts bootstrapping a new business to $10M within five years

“So if I were to start another business, I'd say I could probably do it in well under five, and this is bootstrapping with no funding, of course. It's all organic growth”

David Miller May 20, 2025 ▶ 4:34 Trust Is the Most Valuable Intangible Currency in Business

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A rogue trader cost Miller's firm over $10M, forcing voluntary client repayments

“So that, that ended up costing my firm well over ten million dollars that I was the majority owner of in addition to the millions and millions of dollars that our clients lost and ended up voluntarily repaying back our clients, but that, but yeah, that, that's…”

David Miller May 20, 2025 ▶ 18:29 Trust Is the Most Valuable Intangible Currency in Business

Insight

Miller: Leaders must match the execution pace of their team or fail

“I would say in leading people, You know, whether it's your team, whether it's a client or a customer, then you need to run as fast as they're capable of running. And you need to go at their pace. Because if you don't it doesn't matter if you see the answer, yo…”

David Miller May 20, 2025 ▶ 38:11 Trust Is the Most Valuable Intangible Currency in Business

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Miller scaled an acquired business from $200K to $10M in 2.5 years

“I scaled my second business to ten million plus in approximately two and a half years. You know, they had started with a couple hundred grand in revenue when I acquired it, and totally transformed it, built a leadership team”

David Miller May 20, 2025 ▶ 3:19 Trust Is the Most Valuable Intangible Currency in Business

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Miller: Firm paid millions in legal fees over five years fighting SEC

“We paid a couple million dollars in legal fees over the, over five or so years.”

David Miller May 20, 2025 ▶ 20:16 Trust Is the Most Valuable Intangible Currency in Business

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Miller: Hemp business expanded to 30,000 DTC customers in a couple years

“We expanded it from Having a couple online customers to 30,000 DTC customers and one to two wholesale relationships to over a hundred wholesale relationships in a matter of a couple of years.”

David Miller May 20, 2025 ▶ 25:03 Trust Is the Most Valuable Intangible Currency in Business

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Miller: Banking relationship was abruptly shut down for cannabis business

“Got a banking relationship shut down, just out of the blue, and we had to scramble.”

David Miller May 20, 2025 ▶ 25:45 Trust Is the Most Valuable Intangible Currency in Business

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Miller: Cannabis business migrated to BigCommerce after Shopify restricted products

“We actually were, had a lot of our products just not allowed to distribute on Shopify. So we ended up flipping over to big commerce.”

David Miller May 20, 2025 ▶ 26:04 Trust Is the Most Valuable Intangible Currency in Business

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Trust Is the Most Valuable Intangible Currency in Business	May 20, 2025	18m

David Miller

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