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Noah Kagan Presents

He makes $100M/year but will die with $0 (Bill Perkins)

Noah Kagan Presents

Noah Kagan

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

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In this week's episode, I sit down with Bill Perkins, a successful hedge fund manager, film producer, author, and high-stakes poker player. Bill has created significant wealth through energy trading and uses his money wisely.

Bill is all about finding values in meaningful experiences over material possessions. He also discusses his philosophy on balancing wealth, health, and time to achieve maximum life fulfillment. This episode is packed with practical advice and thought-provoking concepts that can inspire anyone to rethink their approach to wealth and happiness.

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

  • How to leverage opportunities in your field of work and make millions.

  • How to avoid a cookie cutter life.

  • Why you shouldn’t wait until your retirement to experience your dreams.

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

If you loved this episode and want to hear more successful commodity trading stories, check the episode we did with Rafa Martinez, that’s episode 305 in this feed.

Also Check out Bill’s book at diewithzerobook.com and @billperkins on Instagram and @bp22 on X

Transcript

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0:00.0

Well, I'd rather be dead in the streets broke than cookie cut of life.

0:04.1

That's not for everybody.

0:05.3

I'm going to ride this bitch, I'm going to learn as much as I can while doing it, and I'm going to try and take

0:09.3

into the moon.

0:10.3

And then when it does it, you're like next thing take my learnings move on next thing impress

0:18.8

What is up you sexy bastards it is your boy wake surfing, aka Rabbi Can't Lose, aka me, Noah Kagan.

0:26.3

In this week's episode, I sit down with the legendary.

0:30.0

Truly legendary, and I was so grateful to be able to meet him Bill Perkins.

0:34.5

Now he's a super rich honorary billionaire what he calls himself,

0:38.4

the hedge fund manager of energy trading which will find out what that means.

0:41.8

He has written one of my favorite books of all-time, all-time. I highly

0:44.7

highly recommend you go grab it called Die with Zero. You may have seen him on late night poker, he does high-stakes poker

0:50.2

gambling. Also you might have seen him on Instagram partying with Dan Blazerian. Now

0:54.8

Bill is awesome and I spent maybe two years trying to get this interview and thank

0:59.6

you to Chris Hutchins from all the Hacks Podcasts for the intro and I will tell you this

1:04.2

conversation did not disappoint and I am so excited for you to hear what we have to

1:08.5

talk about. Bill talks about what the hell is energy trading, values of life, like how do you prioritize different things,

1:14.4

and we didn't even get a go do the interview because we went wake surfing, that's why I said wake surfing.

1:18.7

Now in this conversation I think there's just so much value about how to create wealth, how to enjoy wealth and how to live a dope-ass life.

1:25.0

Now here's three gigantic things you're going to take away from listening to this episode.

1:28.0

Number one, how do you leverage opportunities no matter what your field is to make millions.

1:33.2

Bill was really adamant about how you can get wealthy in so many ways.

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