School of Hard Knocks Podcast

Booking Overview

This is a weekly entrepreneur-focused interview show featuring founders, investors, agency operators, and major brand executives with significant company-building or exit stories. Credible pitches include established founders with substantial revenue, major acquisitions or exits, brand-building expertise, or proven scaling and marketing results; booking difficulty is high.

Metrics

Episodes: 76

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

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Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high

Typical Credentials:

Established founders, investors, agency owners, and brand executives with substantial revenue, major exits, large-scale operations, or notable expertise in entrepreneurship, marketing, acquisitions, and company growth.

Required Achievements:

Building companies generating eight- or nine-figure annual revenue, Leading or founding brands with major market recognition, Completing significant acquisitions or billion-dollar exits, Scaling companies through rapid growth, fundraising, or expansion, Developing successful marketing, sales, or licensing systems

Recent Guest Discussions

Kim Perell - Building Companies Through Uncertainty, Early-stage Investing, Scaling, Mentorship, Founder Resilience, Relationships, And Preparing Companies For Acquisition.

Eddie Maalouf - Sales Systems, Agency Growth, Marketing Strategy, Hiring, Organic Content, Business Acquisitions, And Scaling Service Companies.

Jhalesa Seymour - Creating Consumer Demand, Organic Marketing, Paid Advertising, Fulfillment Challenges, Team Management, Rapid Growth, And Brand Building.

Mike Wystrach - Fundraising, Hypergrowth, Customer Focus, Team Building, Failure, Wealth, And Selling A High-growth Company.

Jamie Salter - Brand Acquisitions, Licensing, Global Expansion, Creator-driven Commerce, Financial Discipline, Partnerships, And Building A Large Brand Portfolio.

Recent Topics

Business, Entrepreneurship, Scaling, Leadership, Marketing

Episodes

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School of Hard Knocks Podcast

Bob Duggan | He Grew Up With Nothing… Then Made $2 Billion In One Day!

September 23, 2026

Bob Duggan is a billionaire entrepreneur and investor best known for helping transform Pharmacyclics from a struggling biotech company into a cancer-treatment powerhouse that sold for $21 billion.In this episode, Bob shares his journey from a modest childhood and early investing career to building businesses across food, robotics, healthcare, and pharmaceuticals. He opens up about losing his son to glioblastoma, how that experience shaped his commitment to medicine, and the principles behind ...

Kim Perell | She Borrowed $10K From Grandma… Then Built a $235M Company

September 16, 2026

Kim Perell is a nine-time entrepreneur, angel investor in more than 100 companies, and the founder behind a business that grew from a $10,000 loan from her grandmother to a $235 million exit.In this episode, Kim shares how she built through uncertainty, what she looks for when investing in early-stage founders, and the lessons she learned scaling companies from their first million toward nine-figure and billion-dollar outcomes.She also breaks down mentorship, founder resilience, building valu...

Eddie Maalouf | He Couldn’t Give Marketing Away For Free… Now His Agency Makes $18 Million/Year

September 09, 2026

Eddie Maalouf is the founder and CEO of BAD Marketing, an agency generating roughly $18 million annually, and an entrepreneur behind multiple businesses including Scoville Hot Chicken.Before building his agency, Eddie became the top sales rep by volume at Lifetime Fitness and later helped generate an additional $1 million in profit for his family’s businesses.In this episode, Eddie explains the sales systems, marketing strategies, hiring decisions, and organic content playbook that helped him...

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