48 hours with the Tim Ferriss contest winner

Noah Kagan Presents

Noah Kagan

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

If this episode inspires you to start your own business, check out my book Million Dollar Weekend, which helps you start in just one weekend.

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In today’s episode, you’re going to hear about a mad experiment we ran during the Million Dollar Weekend book launch on Tim Ferriss’s show. We put out a 48-hour challenge where the coolest, most interesting startup entrepreneur would win a weekend with me.

Our winner, Eli, raised $65,000 in just 48 hours and blew us away with his dedication and inspiring mission to do good in his community, feeding those in need in Philadelphia.

The Community Grocer provides healthy food to underserved areas in Philadelphia. Our weekend together was filled with valuable entrepreneurial lessons, a lot of fun, and insights into staying focused and impactful in business and life.

In this episode, you’ll enjoy 3 BIG things:

How to set clear measurable goals to work backwards from.
How to find what's working and double down.
How to get your first budget boner!

All these plus a bunch more ear nuggets along the way.

If this episode has inspired you to dream big for your community, don't miss our conversation with John Paul Dejoria, where he shares how he leverages his $5 billion wealth for impactful philanthropic endeavors.

Check out and go support Eli Moraru’s non-profit - https://www.thecommunitygrocer.org/

Also @the.community.grocer on instagram and @tcgfamily on X

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0:00.0	But I'm excited to say, you know, today we've provided 150 neighbors with grocery items, but personally that TCG, Eli with my mini Cooper, fed 10 whole families with meals.
0:11.0	And we're only going to up that number from 10 to 200.
0:14.5	Excited to share this journey with you and super hype that we were able to spend this weekend
0:18.6	together.
0:19.6	What is up you gorgeous bastards? It is your boy eagle scout aka
0:25.8	rabbi can't lose aka no a kegan. In today's episode you're gonna hear
0:29.8	about an experiment we ran during the million dollar weekend book launch on Tim Ferris' show.
0:36.3	We put out a 48 hour challenge where the person who took the most hustle in the next 48 hours got to spend a weekend with me now that might be an
0:45.1	amazing thing for some of you or a nightmare for a few of you our winner Eli
0:50.2	raised 65000 yes 6,000 in just 48 hours and blew us away with his dedication and
0:57.4	inspiring mission to do good in his community, feeding those in need in Philadelphia.
1:02.4	His non-profit, the community grocer, provides healthy food to underserved areas in Philadelphia.
1:08.0	Our weekend together was like a meata ride. It had some highs and some lows, but a really amazing amazing experience and I think there's some insanely powerful lessons for all of you entrepreneurs out there
1:17.2	Now here's three gigantic things you're gonna take away from my experience with Eli this weekend
1:21.8	Number one how do you find out what's working and double down?
1:25.6	Two, what's one of the most important spreadsheets
1:27.8	to get a boner with?
1:29.1	I know, literally.
1:30.0	Number three, how do you set clear and measurable goals to work backwards from?
1:33.7	There's that plus a bunch more ear nuggets along the way.
1:36.5	This is a solo episode where it's me reflecting on our weekend with Eli and including some of the
1:40.3	audio of what happened after the weekend so we can hear some of those
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