Episode
#269: Nik Sharma – Working With MrBeast, Gary Vaynerchuk, & Emma Chamberlain
1:00:54
Published: Mon Oct 31 2022
Description
Nik Sharma is a brand builder. He's the creator of Sharma Brands (a marketing agency that's worked with MrBeast and Emma Chamberlain). In this conversation, we spoke about not going to college, how he's used Twitter effectively, the two skills everyone should learn if they're about to graduate college, and how he got in contact with Mark Cuban via cold email. (0:00) Bob The Builder (2:16) Nik’s Childhood Teacher (6:39) Skills To Learn (9:49) Mark Cuban Email (13:45) Vibes (14:40) David Perell Friendship (16:08) Saving Cousin’s Life (18:49) Death (21:11) Building A Brand (26:55) Working With MrBeast (33:30) Working With Emma Chamberlain (37:04) Small Inflection Points (40:45) Not Going To College (47:00) Gary Vaynerchuk (49:55) Scaling Sharma Brands (53:39) Twitter (59:20) Challenge Nik's Links Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrsharma Cold Email Thread: https://twitter.com/mrsharma/status/1463205121979002890 My Links ✉️ Newsletter: https://dannymiranda.substack.com 🎙 Podcast: https://anchor.fm/dannymiranda 🎥 YouTube: https://youtube.com/dannymiranda 🐣 Twitter: https://twitter.com/heydannymiranda 📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/heydannymiranda 🕺 TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@heydannymiranda
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Episode#269: Nik Sharma – Working With MrBeast, Gary Vaynerchuk, & Emma Chamberlain
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Episode#269: Nik Sharma – Working With MrBeast, Gary Vaynerchuk, & Emma Chamberlain
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