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My First Million

My First Million

The best business ideas come from noticing what's working and doing it better, faster, or for a different audience.

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Audience Co-Founder Framework

Reusability

Partner with content creators who have audiences by building or buying the perfect business for their audience, giving them significant equity in exchange for organic promotion

How It Works

Leverages unfair distribution advantage through trusted audience relationship, creator gets equity upside without operational burden, operator gets built-in distribution

Components

1

Identify content creator with engaged audience

2

Find product that fits their authentic use case

3

Structure equity split (suggested 30% to creator)

4

Handle all operations while creator provides organic promotion

5

Scale through authentic integration

When to Use

When you find content creators with highly engaged, trusting audiences in specific niches

When Not to Use

When audience is too broad, creator isn't aligned with product, or you can't operationally deliver

Anti-Patterns to Avoid

Forcing product that doesn't fit creator's brandGiving too little equity to creatorExpecting creator to handle operationsChoosing creators without real audience trust

Example

Tiny bought a yerba mate company for Andrew Huberman who already loved mate - perfect organic fit that he can authentically promote long-term