
Breaking down how celebrities and creators build billion-dollar brands — hosted by Scott Van den Berg.
| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 33 | Founded | 8 months ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | EntrepreneurshipBusiness | |||

Ford Coleman is a creator entrepreneur with over 400,000 followers teaching career advice and hiring strategies to college students and young professionals, and the founder of Runway, a platform that helps college students land their first internship... more
Azhar Muhammad is the COO of Paradigm Sports, the athlete representation firm behind some of the most successful athlete-founded companies in the world, including Conor McGregor's Proper 12 Irish Whiskey, which sold for $600 million just three years ... more
Yoni Bierig is the co-founder of Tempted, a wine-based ready-to-drink Shirley Temple cocktail co-founded with influencer, DJ, and entrepreneur Sommer Ray, whose previous company Imarais Beauty was just acquired.
Yoni had no experience in the beverag... more
Deborah Benton is the founder and Managing Partner of Willow Growth Partners, an emerging growth consumer fund that has backed some of the most successful celebrity- and creator-founded brands in the market, including Katy Perry's De Soi, Gal Gadot's... more
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The show consistently spotlights the intersection of celebrity/creator influence and consumer-brand building, with a strong emphasis on how brand strategy, retail partnerships, and operating discipline drive long-term value. Across episodes, guests range from high-profile celebrity founders and investor-experts to creator-entrepreneurs who turned online followings into scalable businesses, covering topics from due diligence and funding strategies to product development, go-to-market moves, and the evolving creator economy. A notable throughline is the tension between leveraging fame and maintaining authentic brand performance, plus practical lessons on retail channels, profitability, and governance that are valuable for founders, investors,... more
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