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5 min readThey Built A $2M Business To Fund Their Dreams
Henry and Dylan met at an accepted students day in college in 2015, became best friends, and by 2020 decided to start a podcast. Dylan told Henry he had numbers showing they could get a million listeners in six months. Three months later, the podcast had 14 total views, and they were running out of unemployment money from the government. That failure forced them to figure out how to actually make money, which led them to build Clip.co — an animation studio doing $2 million a year in top-line revenue. But they have a confession: the business is not profitable by design. They take every dollar the agency makes and dump it into creating their own animated shorts and chasing their dreams.
The Squatter Marketing Strategy That Landed Big Clients
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What you'll learn
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- 2 (00:00) **Meet Henry & Dylan** - Two roommates who built a $2M/year animation studio while chasing their creative dreams
- 3 (02:46) **Origin Story: From Failed Podcast to Agency** - How two college friends turned a podcast with 14 views into a content machine
- 4 (04:19) **The "Blitz" Strategy for Landing Big Clients** - How they got hired by Will Smith, Ali Abdaal, Naval, and All-In podcast through aggressive free work
- 5 (05:00) **The $40,000 Credit Card Gamble** - How they funded early free work with personal debt and a "20% premium" mindset
- 6 (07:08) **The Viral Content Formula** - Their dead-simple approach to engineering billions of views
- 7 (08:09) **Hiring Philosophy: Hire Better** - How they built a team of 50 world-class animators
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Show Notes
They Built A $2M Business To Fund Their Dreams
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In this video, I'm in Chicago to meet Dylan and Henry - two college roommates who built a $2M/Year business to fund their creative dreams. They share their strategies for landing BIG clients (Ali Abdaal, Will Smith, Naval...), AND the secret that has gotten them over 1 billion views on YouTube. But the best part about their business - they optimize for fun first... THEN for money.
0:00 - Intro 1:04 - Meet The Boys 1:26 - Business Breakdown 2:04 - Content Strategy 2:28 - 1 Billion Views 2:43 - Background 3:43 - Finding The Idea (Blitz Strategy) 4:56 - How They Self-Funded The Business 5:38 - Landing Big Clients (Squatter Marketing) 7:08 - How To Create Viral Content 8:09 - How To Hire 8:45 - Where To Find Talented Editors 9:22 - Costs of The Team 9:56 - Starting A Business With A Friend 10:58 - Content OVER Money 11:30 - Day in the life 12:05 - Future Vision & Strategy 12:59 - How To Find Profitable Ideas 13:30 - Advice
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