Moneywise

This is a highlight episode. Three guests. Three completely different relationships with money. All of them more honest than they probably planned to be.
Neil Patel wrote a blog post in 2014 saying he could be happy on $15,000 a month. He meant it. We brought him on to find out how that became $200,000 a month — and where it actually goes. The answer involves $35,000 in bed sheets, four homes in Beverly Hills, and donations that dwarf his actual lifestyle spend.
Hank — not his real name — built a $3 billion cell phone distribution company, exited in 1996 for $60 million, and eventually found himself standing inside a 24,000 square foot house wondering how it happened. He paid $10 million. Cash. No mortgage. And runs it like a part-time job. He never says his net worth. He doesn't have to.
Taylor Adams grew up in a Los Angeles family with over a billion dollars in assets going back to the 1890s. Got sober at 26. Now helps wealthy families avoid destroying what the first generation built. He has a framework for how that destruction happens. He calls it the Four Horsemen. Every one of them sounds like good advice.
Three clips. Three moments worth rewinding.
This is MoneyWise.
FEATURED GUESTS
Neil Patel — Founder, Neil Patel Digital & Crazy Egg
Hank — Anonymous. Cell phone distribution. $60M exit. 24,000 sq ft.
Taylor Adams — Founder, Belief Partners. Fourth-generation family wealth.
ABOUT MONEYWISE

MoneyWise is a Hampton podcast about what wealthy founders actually do with their money. Not how they made it — what they do after. Real numbers. Real allocation. Real feelings about wealth. Hosted by Daniel Berk.
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Stop making million-dollar decisions alone. Hampton gives you a personal board of eight vetted founders in your city who meet monthly to tackle your hardest problems. Find your group: https://www.joinhampton.com 
This episode's sponsor is Daily Body Coach - achieve your dream body with https://moneywise.dailybodycoach.com

Mario Schlosser, co-founder of Oscar Health, has tracked every minute of his life in a spreadsheet since 2012. 
In this episode, we get into: 
Building Oscar Health 
How and why he tracks every minute of his day
The framework he took from Ray Dalio at Bridgewater
His approach to radical transparency in leadership
Cool Links
Oscar Health
Hampton

Stop making million-dollar decisions alone. Hampton gives you a personal board of eight vetted founders in your city who meet monthly to tackle your hardest problems. Find your group: https://joinhampton.com/
We're testing something new on MoneyWise. Just like we got radically transparent about money, we want to do the same with company building. Let us know what you think.
In this episode:
Adam White started Front Office Sports as a college project. Now it's worth over $40 million and it's basically the Wall Street Journal of sports. How'd he do it? We break down the branding, hiring, and operations that Adam used to compete with sports industry titans from day one.
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Front Office Sports - https://frontofficesports.com/

Stop making million-dollar decisions alone. Hampton gives you a personal board of eight vetted founders in your city who meet monthly to tackle your hardest problems. Find your group: https://joinhampton.com/

Five founders. Five exits. All around $30 million. So why did one walk away with $30M – and another with just $2M? From taxes and co-founders to deal structure and equity rollovers, the factors that shape a founder's final payout are rarely simple. This episode is your crash course in what really happens when a deal closes.

Here’s what we talk about:
How Eran Galperin took home ~$30M while still keeping ~50% of his company
Why Scott Galloway only netted $2–3M from a $33M sale
How Alex Hormozi earned more from distributions than the $31M exit itself
The ultra-simple, debt-free deal that netted two Canadian brothers $20M each
Marshall Haas’ $18M cash payout – and why he held onto equity for peace of mind
Why the "headline number" often masks the founder’s true financial outcome
The impact of seller notes, taxes, state residency, and post-sale roles
What to consider before you sell to avoid regret or burnout
The myth of the $1B exit – and how one founder only took home $70M

Cool Links:
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Lower Street https://www.lowerstreet.co/

Chapters:
(0:42) Five Exits, Five Wildly Different Payouts
(1:37) Eran Galperin: The Gym Desk Power Play
(4:19) Tax Dodges & Seller Notes: Cash Isn’t Always King
(5:22) Scott Galloway: $33M Headline, $3M Reality Check
(7:39) Alex Hormozi: Gym Launch – Cash Out, Cash In
(8:32) The Sinkinson Brothers: Double or Nothing in Canada
(11:56) Marshall Haass: The Art of the Partial Exit
(13:17) Why Smart Founders Never Sell It All
(15:28) Scoreboard Envy: Don’t Get Played

This podcast is a ridiculous concept: high-net-worth people reveal their personal finances. Inspired by real conversations happening in the Hampton community.

Your Host: Jackie Lamport
Not really the host, but the producer.
Wrote this sentence.