David Senra: Podcasts With Billion-Dollar Potential, What Separates Good From Great, and More

**David Senra** (0:00)
I am probably the most optimistic person in terms of how good of a business podcasting can be.
And I start talking crazy, and then I have some friends that had built giant businesses on the back of podcasts. I was at dinner with them last week, and they literally pulled me to the side and they're like, shut the f*** up. Stop telling people all this.

**Sam Parr** (0:29)
Shit. Alright everyone, today's podcast is special. The guy's name is David Senra. He's got a podcast called Founders. I've listened to dozens and dozens and dozens of episodes. He basically breaks down different biographies that he read about business people, artists, whatever anyone who's, you know, the 1% of the 1% of their field. And on the pod today, we talked about the difference between people who are like somewhat successful and the people who are absolute killers and what traits they have and what the commonalities. So it's super fascinating to hear from someone who's read literally three or 400 biographies and studies us for a living. He talks about the commonalities of these killers, whether that's UFC fighters or billionaires.
It's really fascinating. I think you're going to dig it. My favorite part is when we talk about, he has this really cool quote from Joe Rogan describing John Jones, who's this like amazing UFC fighter and the difference between like John and the rest of the people. And then somehow David weaves that in with business people and he lists out all the business people who he says are the 1%, the 1%, the killers of the killers. And he talks about what traits they have and what you can learn. I think you'll dig it. Check it out. Talk soon.
Yeah, you know, it's I understand why you'd live in Miami if your family's there.
I don't love like New York, but I'm eventually going to move there for family. So I, the family, you know, supersedes all the other stuff.

**David Senra** (1:50)
That's the only reason we stay here. My wife is Colombian. So 70% of Miami Dade County is Hispanic. All her family's here. Like I've been traveling a lot more for work.
And like the day I leave, my kids wake up, her mom is here, her grandmother's here. So like, from my kids' perspective, like Colombians are, they, South Americans general, what they do is like, they're very, I like their multi-generational like housing. My wife grew up in a house connected to her grandparents' house.

**Sam Parr** (2:13)
Yeah, I dig that too.

**David Senra** (2:15)
Oh, that's incredible. Like, I didn't have nothing like that when I was a kid. And so I was like, man, I really want to live in California, but I'm just going to stay here for family and then, you know, spend my summers in California.

**Sam Parr** (2:25)
What did you do before Founders Pod?

**David Senra** (2:27)
I've done a shit ton of businesses like since I was like 18 years old, like, I think me and you are around the same age, I might be a few years older than you. The business I was working on right before actually started Founders while I was doing it was this thing called RoboDB, which is a way to track the origin, the true origination points of robocalls to the payment network.
And it was just like a business that was like kind of like a clever hack, but I wasn't interested in it the way I was podcasting. So like I was obsessed with podcasting for four years. I remember my friend Eric, he invited me over to his house one time, this like 2010 He's like, dude, you got to come over and watch this new podcast. You remember the guy from Fear Factor, and I'm like, yeah, I watched Fear Factor when I was in like high school.
And we went to his house and it's like when Joe Rogan was on like the white couch, and he was on like Ustream. And then you'd have like, there'd be like things falling down. You'd have like, you know, the cheesy kind of like, there'd be stars or sparkles and stuff like that. I'm like, what is this? He's like, oh, you can also listen to it on your phone anytime you want. And that just blew my fucking mind.

**Sam Parr** (3:32)
I could not believe that.

**David Senra** (3:33)
Yeah.

**Sam Parr** (3:34)
But were you successful? Or were you kind of like a struggling entrepreneur? And then this is like, is this your first like, breakout?

**David Senra** (3:42)
This is the first thing that's going to make like, I'll make a lot more money. I was like making like, dentist or doctor money for like a long time, you know, like not struggling, but not nearly like, you know, what a podcast could do, like a successful podcast could do.