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Building a $800,000 portfolio of small bets - Daniel Vassallo

submitted this link on June 1, 2022
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    Living this playbook right now -- building 30+ small products and documenting everything on Substack. The key insight: reusing the same stack and keeping distribution alive across projects creates compounding returns. Curious how others decide which products to sunset vs. keep maintaining?

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    In this episode, Daniel Vassallo shares:

    0:00 - intro
    0:46 - Journey from $0 to $800,000
    5:11 - Think Small!!
    8:22 - Small Bets Approach to achieving success
    13:28 - Think like a VC
    16:44 - Twitter Strategy
    26:01 - Why is Daniel Vassallo bad for the economy?
    29:17 - How to get successful without getting stressed?
    34:42 - What's the right amount of cushion/buffer? ("Personal runway")
    37:43 - Taking a 6-month vacation from work
    43:31 - Dealing with variability & uncertainty is a muscle
    47:23 - Mindset required for building successful online courses
    53:58 - Buying a big piece of land in the middle of forest
    56:42 - Parenting philosophy
    59:50 - What most people get terribly wrong about life?
    1:02:53 - Rapid fire round🔥
    1:05:00 - Links & plugs🔗

    🔗Links shared in the episode:

    Follow Daniel on Twitter- https://twitter.com/dvassallo?s=20&t=NWGMv9NAkvFybN_cWTuF4w
    Enroll in Small Bets CBC- https://dvassallo.gumroad.com/l/small-bets
    Other links of Daniel- https://bio.link/dvassallo

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