Built Different

By Marcus Chen

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Think most business advice is complete garbage? You're probably right. Built Different cuts through the LinkedIn motivational spam to show you what actually works when you're trying to grow a real company. Join Marcus Chen, who burned out so hard running five restaurants that he sold the whole chain and spent two years figuring out where business advice goes wrong. Now he breaks down the unsexy truth about business growth, entrepreneurship, and scaling without venture capital. No feel good fluff, just the strategies that actually move the needle on lead generation and startup survival. Marcus interviews founders who built profitable companies the hard way, plus shares the mistakes that almost killed his own business. You'll get the real story behind successful businesses, not the sanitized version they post on social media. Each episode digs into specific tactics you can actually use, whether you're just starting out or trying to scale past your first few hires. If you're tired of business podcasts that sound like they were written by a marketing team, this one's for you. Follow Built Different now for multiple new episodes daily that'll change how you think about entrepreneurship.

Episode Date
26 Hard Truths About Success Nobody Tells You (Learned in 2025)
Nov 04, 2026
How to Build High-Paying Skills Without College: Sales, Coding & Marketing
Nov 04, 2026
The $47 Strategy That Got Us a Guinness World Record in One Day
Nov 04, 2026
The $47M Math Mistake That Killed 73% of Startups in 2025
Nov 04, 2026
How Young Entrepreneurs Misread Success: Lessons from a $100M CEO
Nov 04, 2026
Why 97% of Businesses Fail at Growth (The Priority Ladder Framework)
Nov 04, 2026
Tony Robbins: It Took Me 50+ Years to Learn What I'll Tell You in 69 Minutes
Nov 04, 2026
How Ancient Business Rules Helped One CEO Sell 4 Companies
Nov 04, 2026
Why Elon Musk's Employees Stay Mediocre Despite Working 80 Hour Weeks
Nov 04, 2026
How Setting Boundaries with Family Actually Works
Nov 04, 2026
How Managing Expectations Actually Creates Happiness
Nov 04, 2026
How Customer Loyalty Actually Works: The Value Equation Every Business Owner Misses
Nov 04, 2026
How Attention Management Builds Million-Dollar Businesses
Nov 04, 2026
How to Build a Talent Acquisition System That Actually Scales
Nov 03, 2026
How Arbitrage Actually Works: The Business Model Behind Most Profitable Companies
Nov 03, 2026
How to Sell Yourself Before Your Product: The First Business Sale
Nov 03, 2026
How to Dominate Saturated Industries: Data Analysis Over Gut Feelings
Nov 03, 2026
How to Think Like an Investor Before Starting Your Business
Nov 03, 2026
How Daily Routines Block Business Growth: The Adaptability Problem
Nov 03, 2026
How Passive Income Actually Works: The Reality Behind Financial Freedom
Nov 03, 2026
How to Calculate Your Business Growth Rate: The Formula Entrepreneurs Use
Nov 03, 2026
How to Handle Business Copycats: A Strategic Framework
Nov 03, 2026
How All Popular Diets Actually Work: The Simple Science Behind Weight Loss
Nov 03, 2026
How Smart Hiring Actually Works: A Framework for Finding Great Employees
Nov 03, 2026
How $100M Offers Actually Work: The Framework That Creates Viral Word-of-Mouth
Nov 03, 2026
How Service Businesses Scale: The Only 4 Proven Growth Models
Nov 03, 2026
How the CLOSER Sales Methodology Actually Works to Build Teams
Nov 03, 2026
How Billionaire Thinking Actually Works: 5 Key Mental Shifts
Nov 03, 2026
How Fake Wealth Destroys Your Financial Foundation
Nov 03, 2026
How Business Scaling Actually Works: $30M Founder Breaks Down His Growth Strategy
Nov 03, 2026
How Starbucks Built a Recurring Revenue Machine That Never Stops
Nov 03, 2026
How Price Increases Actually Boost Your Bottom Line: The Psychology Behind It
Nov 03, 2026
How to Fix Business Growth Problems: The 5 Variable Equation That Reveals Your Block
Nov 03, 2026
How Sales Volume Math Actually Determines Your Revenue Growth
Nov 03, 2026
How Street Millionaires Actually Build Wealth: The Leaked Training Breakdown
Nov 03, 2026
How Service Businesses Actually Scale to 7 Figures
Nov 03, 2026
How Revenge Motivation Actually Limits Business Growth
Nov 03, 2026
Hard Money Lending: How I Made $3M in Private Real Estate Deals
Nov 03, 2026
How to Sell Without Selling: The Psychology of Effective Product Marketing
Nov 03, 2026
How Smart Businesses Prepare for Market Disruption Before It Happens
Nov 03, 2026
How I Built My First Million: 7 Years of Business Mistakes and Wins
Nov 03, 2026
How to Build Sellable Businesses: The Boring Formula That Actually Works
Nov 03, 2026
How the First $100k Works: Why It's Your Hardest Financial Milestone
Nov 03, 2026
How Successful Entrepreneurs Actually Focus: 5 Decisions That Matter
Nov 03, 2026
How Netflix's Subscription Model Actually Works: 8 Tactics Any Business Can Use
Nov 03, 2026
How Alex Hormozi's 3-Question Framework Prevents Bad Business Decisions
Nov 03, 2026
How Millionaires Actually Become Billionaires: Product Quality Over Customer Volume
Nov 03, 2026
How Billionaires Actually Think: The Mental Models That Create Wealth
Nov 03, 2026
How to Fix Your Existing Business Instead of Starting New Ones
Nov 03, 2026
How Envy and Jealousy Actually Work: The Science Behind Negative Emotions
Nov 03, 2026
How to Build a Billion Dollar Business by Giving Away Free Education
Nov 03, 2026
How Partner Selection Impacts Wealth Building More Than Business Strategy
Nov 03, 2026
How to 3x Customer Revenue: 4-Step Framework Service Businesses Use
Nov 03, 2026
How Billionaires Give Away Entire Fortunes: The Psychology Behind Extreme Philanthropy
Nov 03, 2026
How to Pick the Right Mentor: 2 Critical Traits You Must Test First
Nov 03, 2026
Business Wealth: The 3-Level Hierarchy Most Entrepreneurs Get Wrong
Nov 03, 2026
Why Giving $2M to Charity Didn't Create Happiness: The Psychology Behind Meaning
Nov 03, 2026
How to Charge $40K Instead of $1K: The Value Equation That Actually Works
Nov 03, 2026
How Coaching Actually Works: Why Success Makes the Help Invisible
Nov 03, 2026
How Advertising Agencies Actually Work: An Insider's Exit Story
Nov 03, 2026
How Focus Actually Creates Wealth: The One Thing Strategy
Nov 03, 2026
How Business Tradeoffs Actually Work: A Framework for Better Decisions
Nov 02, 2026
How Mental Money Scripts Actually Build Real Wealth
Nov 02, 2026
How Voice Tone Changes Sales Results: The Science Behind Vocal Impact
Nov 02, 2026
How Great Offers Actually Drive Business Success
Nov 02, 2026
Online Courses: What $100K Taught Me About What Actually Works
Nov 02, 2026
How Saying No First Actually Increases Your Sales Conversion Rates
Nov 02, 2026
How Gym Capacity Limits Can Actually Increase Your Profits
Nov 02, 2026
How Downselling Psychology Actually Works in Sales
Nov 02, 2026
How Sales Actually Works: Caring More Than Closing
Nov 02, 2026
How Skill-Character Gaps Keep Entrepreneurs Stuck at the Same Level
Nov 02, 2026
How to Build a Simple Operational Framework That Actually Works
Nov 02, 2026
Lead Quality vs Lead Quantity: How to Choose Quality Every Time
Nov 02, 2026
How Vista Equity Partners Uses Customer Data to Build Billion-Dollar Companies
Nov 02, 2026
80/20 Business Philosophy Explained: How to Serve Most Customers with Simple Solutions
Nov 02, 2026
How Alex Hormozi's 3-Part Ad Formula Actually Works
Nov 02, 2026
Gym Industry COVID Pivot Explained: How 50% of Independent Gyms Adapted or Closed
Nov 02, 2026
Why Warren Buffett Says 'Do Better' Is Worth More Than Talent
Nov 02, 2026
Cash Flow Crisis: How to Generate Revenue From Existing Customers Fast
Nov 02, 2026
How Arnold Schwarzenegger Handles Criticism: 4 Real Encounters
Nov 02, 2026
How Gym Customer Retention Actually Works (And Why Most Gyms Get It Wrong)
Nov 02, 2026
Give Me 20 Minutes And I'll Add 20 Years To Your Life
Nov 02, 2026
How Life Change Actually Works - The Science Behind Lasting Transformation
Nov 02, 2026
Service Business Scaling: How to Build Systems That Actually Work in 2026
Nov 02, 2026
Wealth Building Strategies: How Ultra-Rich Entrepreneurs Scale Beyond Their First Million
Nov 02, 2026
Why Your To-Do List Is Making You Less Productive (And What Works Instead)
Nov 02, 2026
The Investment Billionaires Make That You Can't Buy on Wall Street
Nov 02, 2026
Why Apple Never Asked Permission (And You Shouldn't Either)
Nov 02, 2026
Why Your Brain Lies to You About What You Want (And How to Fix It)
Nov 02, 2026
Why 94% of Salespeople Fail (And the 3-Step Fix That Actually Works)
Nov 02, 2026
The $1M Difference: What Broke Salespeople Do That Rich Ones Never Touch
Nov 02, 2026
Why Alex Hormozi Fires 80% of His Sales Team (And What He Does Instead)
Nov 02, 2026
I Built Both a $10K and $10M Offer. Here's What Nobody Tells You.
Nov 02, 2026
Why Your Business Profit Numbers Are Lying to You (And What to Do Instead)
Nov 02, 2026
Why 97% of Offers Fail (And the 3% That Made Me Rich)
Nov 02, 2026
The $1M Business Path Nobody Talks About (And Why 73% Choose Wrong)
Nov 02, 2026
Why Your Brain Sabotages You: 5 Psychological Blocks Keeping You Stuck
Nov 02, 2026
What Happy People Know That You Don't
Nov 02, 2026
Employee Theft: The $50 Billion Problem Every Boss Handles Wrong
Nov 02, 2026
Why Men Wait 7 Years to Propose (And How to Know in 6 Months)
Nov 02, 2026
What 36 Years of Getting Life Wrong Taught Me About Getting It Right
Nov 02, 2026
Why 95% of People Quit Right Before Their Breakthrough Moment
Nov 02, 2026
Why 87% of Businesses Fail at Profit (And the 3 Systems That Work)
Nov 02, 2026
What Your First $1,000 Investment Reveals About Your Financial Future
Nov 02, 2026
I Make $380K Working 1 Hour Daily: Here's What Nobody Tells You
Nov 02, 2026
The $2.3M Ad That Lost Nike Everything (And What Pepsi Did Instead)
Nov 02, 2026
What Your Bank Doesn't Want You to Know About Emergency Funds
Nov 02, 2026
The $2.7M Mistake 99% of People Make When Building Wealth
Nov 02, 2026
What Shopify's President Learned From $75B in Black Friday Sales
Nov 02, 2026
The 3 Fastest Ways I Know To Grow Any Business
Nov 01, 2026
Why 97% of Small Businesses Fail at Growth (And 3% That Don't)
Nov 01, 2026
Why You're Losing $47,000 Every Month (The Opportunity Cost Nobody Talks About)
Nov 01, 2026
The $2.4M Opportunity 99% of People Are Missing Right Now
Nov 01, 2026
What Warren Buffett's Barber Makes ($89K) Using This Simple Strategy
Nov 01, 2026
The $2M Mistake 99% of People Make When Starting Side Hustles
Nov 01, 2026
The $2.3M Secret: How the Top 1% Actually Make Their Money (Not Salaries)
Nov 01, 2026
It Took Me $50M To Realize Money Has No Meaning (What I Learned)
Nov 01, 2026
What Warren Buffett Took 60 Years to Learn About Your First $10,000
Nov 01, 2026
How To Get Customers So Fast It Feels ILLEGAL
Nov 01, 2026
The Customer Acquisition Trick That Got Me Investigated by the FTC
Nov 01, 2026
What Elon Musk Gets Dead Wrong About Getting Rich in 2026
Nov 01, 2026
Why 97% of Businesses Fail: The System Tesla Uses That You Don't
Nov 01, 2026
Why Your 2025 Goals Failed (And How to Fix It in 2026)
Nov 01, 2026
Why 97% of Businesses Fail at Growth (And the 3% That Don't Do THIS)
Nov 01, 2026
The Ultimate Sales Training for 2026 [Full Course]
Nov 01, 2026
Give Me 47 minutes, And I'll Fix Your Small Business
Nov 01, 2026
What I Learned From 1,000 Failed Businesses (And How To Fix Yours In 47 Minutes)
Nov 01, 2026
This Video Should be REQUIRED Viewing For Business Owners
Nov 01, 2026
Stranger Gave Me 56 Minutes. I Built Him a $1,000,000 Business.
Nov 01, 2026
How to Become Ultra Wealthy (4 Methods)
Nov 01, 2026
Why 99% of People Stay Poor (4 Ultra Wealth Methods They Never Try)
Nov 01, 2026
Breaking down Rihanna’s Company (Real Tactics You Can Use)
Nov 01, 2026
The $5 Million Framework: What I Learned Building Someone Else's Empire
Nov 01, 2026
I Ranked the Best Superbowl Ads 2026 [TIER LIST]
Nov 01, 2026
What Jeff Bezos Took 20 Years to Learn About Scaling (In 60 Minutes)
Nov 01, 2026
How Ryan Reynolds Built a $1.3 Billion Brand Without Being Famous First
Nov 01, 2026
STEAL Ryan Reynolds' $1.3B Marketing Strategy [NO FAME REQUIRED]
Nov 01, 2026
Building a $3,500,000 Business for a Stranger in 51 Mins
Nov 01, 2026
What This $100M Investor Learned That Most Entrepreneurs Never Will
Nov 01, 2026
Seth Goldman Makes $600M/Year Selling Bacon: The Tea Company Secret Nobody Talks About
Nov 01, 2026
How He Built a $600M Bacon Empire by Spotting One Gap Everyone Missed
Nov 01, 2026
Building a $3,000,000 Business for a Stranger in 57 Mins
Nov 01, 2026
Why 97% of People Never Get Ahead (And the 3% That Do This Instead)
Nov 01, 2026
Why Following Your Dreams is the $73K Mistake Keeping Entrepreneurs Poor
Nov 01, 2026
I Confronted a Stranger With a Failing Business...
Nov 01, 2026
Why Smart Entrepreneurs Fail While 'Average' Ones Make Millions
Nov 01, 2026
The $600M Mistake 99% of Entrepreneurs Make (Dave Ramsey Reveals All)
Nov 01, 2026
Watch These 51 Minutes if You Want to Grow Your Business in 2026 (Dave Ramsey Interview)
Nov 01, 2026
It Took Me 14 Years to Realize This One Thing Was Killing My Business
Nov 01, 2026
The Tongue Map Lie: How Schools Taught You Science That's Completely Wrong
Nov 01, 2026
The Biggest MYTH You Probably Still Believe
Nov 01, 2026
How to get what you want every time
Nov 01, 2026
I Bought Everything I Wanted for 3 Years Without Debt. Here's How.
Nov 01, 2026
Two Strangers, 52 Minutes, $3.5M Business Plan (Watch This Happen Live)
Nov 01, 2026
Building a $3,500,000 Business for Two Strangers in 52 Minutes
Nov 01, 2026
Business is hard until you do this
Nov 01, 2026
The $2.3M mistake 97% of people make with their daily habits
Nov 01, 2026
Build Your Business Like Harvard
Oct 31, 2026
Why 97% of Marketing Advice Fails (And The 3% That Actually Works)
Oct 31, 2026
Why Amazon Uses These 6 Influence Techniques (And You Should Too)
Oct 31, 2026
How to Get Anyone to Do Anything You Want
Oct 31, 2026
Fast Decisions vs Perfect Plans: Why Google Chose Speed
Oct 31, 2026
It Took Me 30 Years to Stop Needing Everyone's Approval
Oct 31, 2026
What Elon Musk Gets Wrong About Fast Progress (And What Actually Works)
Oct 31, 2026
What Took Entrepreneurs 10 Years Now Takes 10 Weeks (Here's the Shift)
Oct 31, 2026
Why 37signals Fired Half Their Team (And Made More Money)
Oct 31, 2026
Why Apple's Steve Jobs Said No to 1,000 Ideas
Oct 31, 2026
How to Build a Business That Runs Without You: 5 Core Systems
Oct 31, 2026
Why 99% of 'Zero Budget' Business Advice Will Keep You Broke Forever
Oct 31, 2026
How Billionaire Investment Strategies Actually Work for Regular People
Oct 31, 2026
My Final Update: What I Took 10 Years to Learn (In 60 Minutes)
Oct 31, 2026
What It Took Me 10 Years to Learn (Now Built a $2.3M Business in 57 Minutes)
Oct 31, 2026
How to Build a Billion Dollar Business Working Only 2-3 Days Per Week
Oct 31, 2026
If You're Watching This, We Did It: The Psychology of Impossible Goals
Oct 31, 2026
How Firing Late Employees Actually Transformed Our Company Culture
Oct 31, 2026
How to Build Wealth Starting from Nothing: 5 Evidence-Based Strategies
Oct 31, 2026
The $2M Growth Strategy Making Accountants Panic (And Why That's Good)
Oct 31, 2026
How to Raise Your Prices Without Losing Customers: A Step-by-Step Framework
Oct 31, 2026
The $500K View Strategy: 34.2M Monthly Views Broken Down
Oct 31, 2026
Why Most People Will Never Be Happy (And the 14-Minute Fix That Works)
Oct 31, 2026
How the Business Scaling Formula Actually Works
Oct 31, 2026
What Alex Hormozi Gets Wrong About Achievement (And What He Gets Right)
Oct 31, 2026
How Phantom Equity Actually Works: Sharing Profits Without Losing Control
Oct 31, 2026
Why Doing Everything Is Costing You $47K Per Year
Oct 31, 2026
How to Scale from 1 Business to 6: The Systems That Actually Work
Oct 31, 2026
Why Most People Break During Hard Times (And 5% Don't)
Oct 31, 2026
How Billionaires Scale Beyond Personal Limits: The Talent Infrastructure Method
Oct 31, 2026
The $2.4M Mistake: Why Busy Entrepreneurs Actually Earn Less Than Lazy Ones
Oct 31, 2026
Business Reality Check: 3 Things You Must Know Before Quitting Your Job
Oct 31, 2026
The 69-Minute Million Dollar Business That Broke Every Rule
Oct 31, 2026
How Business Gurus Fake Their Income Numbers: The Complete Breakdown
Oct 31, 2026
How Sales Conviction Actually Works: The Psychology Behind Genuine Belief
Oct 31, 2026
Why 99% of New Businesses Fail (And the 3 Things That Actually Matter)
Oct 31, 2026
What Jeff Bezos Took 10 Years to Learn About Building Amazon (in 47 Minutes)
Oct 31, 2026
How Smart Business Owners Actually Invest Their Money
Oct 31, 2026
I Made 47 Big Decisions Last Year. Here's What I Learned.
Oct 31, 2026
How the Rich Actually Avoid Taxes: 3 Core Strategies Explained
Oct 31, 2026
What 5 Years of Social Media Burnout Taught Me About 2026 Strategy
Oct 31, 2026
How Premium Pricing Psychology Actually Works
Oct 31, 2026
Why Your Decision-Making Process Is Costing You Thousands
Oct 31, 2026
How My 4-Part Investing Model Actually Works
Oct 31, 2026
How Business Partnerships Actually Work: Legal Structures That Matter
Oct 31, 2026
Why 87% of Social Media Strategies Fail (And Mine Doesn't)
Oct 31, 2026
Why YouTube Shows You Exactly What You Need (When You Need It Most)
Oct 31, 2026
How Money Lost Its Power: The Psychology Behind Financial Fulfillment
Oct 31, 2026
The Synchronicity Trap That's Fooling 90% of People
Oct 31, 2026
How Ultra Wealthy Think About Money: 9 Core Beliefs That Drive Success
Oct 31, 2026
Sales Closing Framework: How Simple Beats Complex Every Time
Oct 31, 2026
The Secret System Behind Every $1M+ Business (I Broke It Down By Killing Mine)
Oct 31, 2026
Why Your Brain Finds Exactly What You Need at the Perfect Moment
Oct 31, 2026
How the Talent Grid Works: 3 Levels to Evaluate Any Team Member
Oct 31, 2026
How 4 Mental Shifts Prevent Entrepreneur Burnout: Practical Frameworks
Oct 31, 2026
What Warren Buffett Took 70 Years to Learn (I'll Tell You in 60 Minutes)
Oct 31, 2026
I Doubled My Income in 8 Months. Here's the Strategy Nobody Talks About
Oct 31, 2026
7 Life Skills Schools Don't Teach: A Millionaire's Guide to Real Success
Oct 31, 2026
Why Wealthy Families Never Talk About Money (Their 5 Secret Rules Revealed)
Oct 31, 2026
How the 3 Evil Es Kill Businesses: Expectations, Emotions, and Ego
Oct 31, 2026
The $2M Mistake 90% of 30-Somethings Make (And How to Avoid It)
Oct 31, 2026
How Sales Careers Are Actually Lower Risk Than You Think
Oct 31, 2026
Day Trading vs Buy and Hold: What My $217,000 Loss Taught Me
Oct 31, 2026
What Jeff Bezos Learned In His 20s That Made Him $177 Billion
Oct 31, 2026
How the 6-Bucket Service Framework Transforms Any Business Into Multiple Revenue Streams
Oct 31, 2026
The $2.3M Mistake 90% of People Make in Their 20s and 30s
Oct 31, 2026
Why Smart CEOs Use This Queue Strategy (And You Should Too)
Oct 31, 2026
How Charlie Munger's 8 Business Laws Create Long-Term Success
Oct 31, 2026
How Much Money You Actually Need to Live Like the 1%
Oct 31, 2026
The Brutal Truth About Goals: Why 97% Fail (And The 3% Who Don't)
Oct 31, 2026
What Warren Buffett Took 40 Years to Learn About Money (In 60 Minutes)
Oct 31, 2026
How to Buy Back Your Time: The Step-by-Step Delegation System for Business Owners
Oct 31, 2026
Warren Buffett's Cash Flow Rule: Why Business Owners Must Take Money Out
Oct 31, 2026
What Russell Brunson's Team Uses to Generate 50,000+ Leads Per Month
Oct 31, 2026
How the Get Paid First Principle Actually Works in Wealth Building
Oct 31, 2026
The $47M Money Game: Why Most People Play by the Wrong Rules
Oct 31, 2026
How to Hire A-Players Who Think Like Owners Instead of Employees
Oct 31, 2026
What Elon Musk's $44B Twitter Deal Reveals About Persuasive Speaking
Oct 31, 2026
How Deep Expertise Actually Beats Marketing for Entrepreneurs
Oct 31, 2026
What Elon Musk Gets Wrong About Goal Setting (And What Tesla Really Does)
Oct 31, 2026
How to Increase Customer Lifetime Value: 6 Proven Strategies That Work
Oct 31, 2026
How Debt Financing Lets Business Owners Access Cash Without Paying Taxes
Oct 31, 2026
How 106M Ad Impressions Actually Work: 3 Data Variables That Change Everything
Oct 31, 2026
The $2.3M Business Mistake That Led to My Biggest Success
Oct 31, 2026
The 4 Stages of Entrepreneurship: What Every Business Owner Should Know
Oct 31, 2026