Derek From More Plates More Dates: His +$100M Business Empire, Bryan Johnson & TRT

**Sam Parr** (0:00)
I don't know what you're doing per month, but I would not be shocked if this was doing between six and eight million a month in revenue. Blink twice if I'm right.

**Derek** (0:12)
Yeah. Yeah, you guys are pretty on point with your ballparks.

**Sam Parr** (0:28)
We got Derek from More Plates More Dates here. Derek, I made a fatal mistake before this podcast. I don't know if you know this, but I was doing research last night. I was like, okay, I gotta be prepped. Gotta be ready to go. I've been following you for a while, but I said, let me just make sure I button up here.
And I go to your subreddit, r slash moreplatesmoredates.

**Derek** (0:49)
To be clear, this is not like my subreddit. I didn't start it.

**Sam Parr** (0:53)
But I didn't realize this at the time. Okay, so I'm on this subreddit thinking it's your subreddit. Think of these are just polite, civil, faithful fans. In fact, it says there's 163,000 faithfuls. That's how they call the members. It is a top 1% subreddit. So you're doing really well. And I say, hey, I'm interviewing Derek Moore. He's coming on our pod. We're gonna hang out. What should we talk about?
And I said, give me some ideas, hoping that this, you know, I did this like, you know, unless it's a time of post, it was like 1 a.m. And I go to sleep and I wake up and I say, oh, let me just check that real quick. Maybe somebody had some really thoughtful questions.
Here's the breakdown.
98% of them wanna know how big your penis is. That's the number one comment by far. Everybody said the same exact thing. I don't know if that's an inside joke or you just have some really, really eager fans.
And then the second was like, bro, you needed to know, this is a trolling subreddit. This is not the serious subreddit of like people trying to have a real conversation. Like you didn't know what you were giving yourself into. And sure enough, I did not.

**Shaan Puri** (1:59)
The third comment was, bring a ruler.

**SPEAKER_4** (2:03)
Yeah, they're very creative.

**Derek** (2:07)
I can imagine what kind of stuff you got, had an onslaught of for sure. There's a decent amount of trolling and I don't know, just like shit posting that goes on there. But there is some insightful stuff. Like I'm a moderator on it. I didn't start it, but I do check in time to time. And I've been pretty shocked how much it's ramped up. Like, I don't know what a good subreddit is in size, but it seems like.

**Shaan Puri** (2:32)
This is a good one.
Yeah, so Derek, I've been watching you for years. I remember watching you when you were doing like, I think a cottage cheese or some type of like protein intake video and you look horrible because I believe you're an amateur, or maybe even more serious than amateur bodybuilder. And you were like cutting and you looked just miserable when you were like really lean.
But you have all these amazing videos where originally it started out as like, is this celebrity taking steroids? But then it kind of like expanded beyond that to like, you would actually do some really cool breakdowns about the science behind different fitness stuff, but then also life advice. And now you have like, I think four different companies, Gorilla Mind, Marek and a few others. And so we're interested in like, definitely some fitness stuff, but also the fact that you're running like, I think three or four, like pretty successful businesses. And what do you have now? 1.5 million subscribers, 1.8?

**Derek** (3:28)
Yeah, I think, let's see, 1.89, yeah.

**Shaan Puri** (3:32)
Yeah, so you've built like a pretty, like what it appears to be, monster businesses, but you've done it like with some really high integrity, it feels like, and you've also, like your video setup is like almost janky, although I feel like that's part of the schtick. But so it's just like all about like just really high quality content that is well researched.

**Derek** (3:52)
Yeah, it's almost, it's quite unintentional, the jankiness, because I just don't know what I'm doing when it comes to, I don't know, videography and whatnot. So every time I try and spruce it up, it just, I fail miserably, so I just leave it the same.

**Shaan Puri** (4:06)
But I've heard a rumor, I've heard a rumor that you've gotten, you know, you clearly have gotten quite successful. I imagine your businesses are doing tens of millions in revenue.
I've heard a rumor that you've moved to a really nice house and between your first apartment when you started and your second better apartment and your third nice house, that you purposely make the background look exactly the same to the point of you've even like took a wall from your first apartment into the third place. Is that true?