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Hey, it's Guy here, and I just want to let you know that we have a few tickets left for our upcoming live show on December 5th in Los Angeles. My guest will be Michael Dubin, he's the co-founder of Dollar Shave Club, and he has an amazing story. He grew this company from nothing to a billion-dollar brand in just five years. Now if you haven't been to a live show, they are so much fun. It's a chance to meet me and the team behind how I built this and other H IBT listeners. So If you're in the LA area on December fifth, You will not want to miss this live show. Our show is supported by American Express, and to get your tickets. Go to nprpresents dot org and I hope to see you there.

Oh. How did you raise the money? to start this venture at all. Well that's a really good question. Because I had to go back to all my basic same people who had invested with me in my other

Uh horse ventures. Yeah. That had failed and gone broke. So I had to convince them that even though we lost money in something that I knew a lot about. that we were gonna make money in something that I knew nothing about.

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