Ramit Sethi: His New Netflix Show, How To Stand Out & Spend Your Money

**Ramit Sethi** (0:00)
I will say, the show came out, it was number nine on all of Netflix the first day, number six the next day, and the reception has been insane, way bigger than I ever thought.

**Sam Parr** (0:11)
How many messages are you getting?

**Ramit Sethi** (0:13)
Oh dude, I've given up on, I usually get about a thousand to two thousand messages a day just generally, including DMs, emails, everything, because I'm on my newsletter and all this stuff. When I open up Instagram in the morning, it just keeps refreshing like over and over in my DMs.

**Sam Parr** (0:40)
Ramit, what's going on man? We're live.

**Ramit Sethi** (0:42)
What's up Sam?

**Sam Parr** (0:43)
Ramit from How To Teach You, I Will Teach You, what am I saying? Why can't I think of the name of your-

**Ramit Sethi** (0:48)
Is this your intro you're giving me? You don't even know the name of my company? You better try that again.

**Sam Parr** (0:53)
I Will Teach You To Be Rich. You know why I confuse it all the time, is because one of my favorite books of all time is Felix Dennis's, and I always confuse you two. His is How To Get Rich.

**Ramit Sethi** (1:02)
Well, you want to know something even more confusing? My new Netflix show is now called How To Get Rich.

**Sam Parr** (1:10)
Dude, what's going on?
What's up? So you just had a show come out two days ago or three days ago, right? How's it been? Are you like, have you noticed that like the revenue of your business or the podcast downloads that you have, are they going up?

**Ramit Sethi** (1:27)
The reception is like out of control. Like I'll give you the numbers, but like I thought the show is great. I did not expect for it to be top 10 on Netflix.
The number of emails I've gotten, I just gave up on even being able to be on top of my DMs. It's just wild. Podcast numbers, right now the podcast is number 12 on all of Apple.
I'm very proud to say we have displaced Ben Shapiro. So, you know, one bigot at a time, we're gonna take it down. And number of social media followers is fantastic. Just like the best part of all is people are posting pictures from their family rooms all over the world. And it's like, you can tell a lot by seeing a family room. You know, you can tell just a ton about someone's life. And then you see the same show in every one of those photos. It's kind of like cosmic. It's like humanity is all watching the same thing, which is pretty cool.

**Sam Parr** (2:28)
You, what percentage increase of downloads per episode has your pod gone from that?

**Ramit Sethi** (2:34)
Well, it hasn't even been out a week. So I can't even tell you yet, but.

**Sam Parr** (2:37)
Well, you can look at your current numbers, can't you, of the podcasts?

**Ramit Sethi** (2:41)
I don't know, I guess. I'm not as sophisticated as you.

**Sam Parr** (2:46)
Yeah, I mean, I would have thought that you know how to log into things, but yeah, I understand. I guess I overestimated your ability.

**Ramit Sethi** (2:53)
Listen, I can only be good at a couple of things, and then the rest, I'm pretty deficient at them.

**Sam Parr** (2:58)
So I've known you Ramit for a while now, and I've been following you for, it feels like a decade. I don't remember what year you started doing it, but it feels like you've been, I mean, you were like one of the OG bloggers.
So like basically.

**Ramit Sethi** (3:11)
Yeah, I started about 20 years ago.

**Sam Parr** (3:13)
Oh, it was 20 years ago. Wow. So basically, I know my best friend is Neville.
I met him because I was a fan of his blog and I found his blog because of Noah Kagan's blog. I found Noah Kagan's blog because of probably like Tim Ferriss. And then I probably found Tim Ferriss because of you.
It was like this Illuminati of like businessy financial bloggers, but a little bit lifestyly. And you've been doing that. You're like the OG. I remember you like would teach classes like you wrote a blog post. You would like you hung up flyers on the Stanford campus. You're like, I'm going to do a personal finance class or something like that.
And then that kind of like parlayed into one thing, which led to another thing. Now you have got this pretty big business. I've talked to a lot of people who work for you. It's a pretty like amazing company that you built. Then you came out with a podcast and you told me you're going to come out the podcast. And I was like, okay, this sounds interesting. You're a little late to the game. You've been doing this for 20 years.