#323 Tom Bilyeu - Billion Dollar Lessons
Real Talk with Zuby
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🗓️ 8 August 2024
⏱️ 117 minutes
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Summary
Tom Bilyeu is the Co-Founder of Quest Nutrition, a unicorn health startup, and Impact Theory, a global media business. In this episode Tom shares actionable insights into building self-belief and how to become your best self. We start with a look at Tom’s early beginning, how he started at Quest, and what ultimately led to a $1B exit. Tom then shares lessons for success, how he perceives failure, how to foster confidence, and why he’s building the next Disney with Impact Theory. We also discuss changing media archetypes, gender dynamics in media, relationship advice for young people, and much more—enjoy!
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Introduction
(07:18) Tom’s start in film school
(10:10) Tom’s career as a ‘driver’
(12:58) Quest Nutrition
(21:00) Why protein bars?
(23:12) Quest’s first product launch
(26:14) Signals of success
(30:04) Scaling lessons
(38:49) Giving up early
(41:38) Fostering self-belief
(49:16) Building the next Disney
(57:20) Changing media archetypes & gender politics
(1:23:28) How Tom met his wife
(1:28:28) Relationship advice for young people
(1:32:56) Gender dynamics
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| 0:00.0 | Go educate the life out of kids, set the expectation, tell them they can do whatever they set their mind to, show them how to train for that, show them how to acquire skills, show to them that you can go to any university you want, just make it all day rigor, all the good, powerful things that they could do with their life just make |
| 0:13.7 | them assume it is all true you can do it even if people hate you and they want to |
| 0:17.2 | stop you you can actually get so good at something that people can't stop you |
| 0:20.2 | even though they want to if you took an entire generation and you just stop you |
| 0:25.0 | just embedded that in their psyches, that tears down all the other bullshit. I do not I front, I do I scan, put some respect on my name, |
| 0:43.7 | stick like a bang, click and a bang, y'all gonna remember the name. |
| 0:48.5 | What's up ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls around the world? |
| 0:50.7 | I would like to welcome you back to the real talk with |
| 0:53.1 | Zubi podcast I'm really excited about today's episode I have got on a brilliant |
| 0:58.4 | guest I was actually we just recorded an episode for his podcast yesterday and I'm actually in his |
| 1:03.7 | studio right now in Los Angeles and this is the host of the Impact Theory |
| 1:09.1 | podcast and founder of Quest nutrition, Tom Bill Yew. |
| 1:13.0 | What's up man? |
| 1:14.0 | Great to see you again, man. |
| 1:15.0 | How you doing? Dude, it's good to have you back. |
| 1:17.0 | I had a lot of fun yesterday. |
| 1:18.0 | No doubt, man. |
| 1:19.0 | Tom, I know who you are. |
| 1:20.0 | A lot of people out there know who you are, but my listeners who are like who's this guy please introduce yourself |
| 1:26.7 | cool I'll give it to you in a really brief nutshell so go to film school in the late 90s have no idea how to break into the industry meet |
| 1:34.2 | these successful entrepreneurs they say if you want to control the art you need to |
| 1:38.0 | control the resources so you should get into business and get rich and I thought |
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