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Podcast: Trading Secrets
Episode: The Dollar Drill Down, from Rob Dyrdek, MTV’s Biggest Host! $125K an episode or Royalties?
Description: Rob Dyrdek got his first brand sponsorship at 12 and at the age of 16 dropped out of high school to become a professional skate-border. Did you read that last sentence and wonder what he was paid at 12 for the sponsorship and at 16 to be a pro skater? Me too and Rob tells us everything to the penny! A brilliant business man and savvy individual learned from experience and not the classroom. From a young age, he was negotiating, deal making and leveraging his skillset, sport and fame like no individual I have ever spoken with.  We talk all numbers, lessons an...