Jake Paul Reflects on Whole Career

up bro how are you life out here in Puerto Rico hold up you're probably wondering who am I why the hell am I in Dorado Puerto Rico with Jake Paul and who's this guy on the phone with us first of all the guy on the phone is my friend and colleague Eric Weinstein mathematician

cultural commentator and all-around [music] crazy [ __ ] my middle finger is pointed straight at you understood I'm Jesse Michaels a tech investor and your host of American Alchemy a show where we study the frontier of Science and Tech sprinkled in with some conspiracy theories for good measure there are animals that are Immortal but if my show's about Science Tech and crazy ideas why am I talking to internet sensation turn pro boxer Jake Paul well for starters Jake is about as radical as they come [screaming]

in just the last year he's completely revitalized the formerly dead sport of boxing oh my God come with its speed bumps YouTube Star Jake Paul is making headlines after an FBI raid at his home in Calabasas but I've actually known Jake for about seven years he came to me when he was 17 years old for Tech advice I invited him to come up to San Francisco he ended up crashing in my apartment and we just hit it off because we're both a little crazy

so in this interview I wanted to highlight the Jake that I know our mission at boxing bullies is to help instill confidence courage and Leadership the kid that picks up the phone no matter how busy he is who's generous humble and hard-working so without further Ado today's American Alchemist is Jake Paul you know it's it's the work you put in I think when no one's watching that that shows in the light and when you are confident in yourself and you know that you can create something that has never

been done before uh you just gotta go for it I don't know yeah I felt like people had me down for the count they were like this kid's just a menace to society like fighting gave me that outlet to sort of like redeem myself and to work towards a goal now your favorite now favorite favorite people think I will beat McGregor with ease crazy but your favorite against Woodley too yeah like the odds-wise yep like Tyrone Woodley I think has been probably boxing

since I was five years old hey yo I'm Jake Paul from bizaardvark and you're [music] watching Disney Channel oh oh we tagged a big shot and I think really like what it's boiled down to is my work ethic and then having like the the coaches around me who push me and are just excellent I remember there was an inflection point with you too where I feel like you were thinking more about being kind of traditional movies shows like you had your Disney show

and something interesting happened I think the like ABC or something showed up at your house because you were kind of causing a ruckus he is a guy a little bit Jake I wouldn't do that I have one question for you yeah what are those but you kind of made this decision I'm just gonna build my own brand and have my own leverage and do my own thing kind of for the rest of my life and that was also in my mind the moment you embrace the villain too like after that you were kind of the the yeah all downhill uh

no seriously I was I was on Disney Channel making you know like ten thousand dollars an episode and that's like working like six days a week for like 12 hours a day and you're doing content at the same time which is that's crazy exactly like a lot of people think I got fired from Disney and I just like run with that narrative yeah but it was more so like a mutual it was like a mutual that I was like guys I don't know what to do here yeah and they

were like well you're kind of like causing problems in our company anyways so we're like all right perfect you guys want to break up they're like yeah sure most yeah and you probably gained like a few million followers literally around that event did something go off in your head where you were like okay we have

this crazy walking on eggshells PC cancel culture [ __ ] which was just starting to grow at the time yeah and the people who win biggest on the internet and I'm thinking you I'm Takashi obviously yeah you know what I mean um uh Kanye Trump people who just kind of their themselves they're authentic they say things that aren't very PC all the time I'm not endorsing any of the people I just said I'm just saying yeah

did something go off in your mind where you're like this is what works 100 I think just authenticity there's like a whole cancel culture that tries to make you scared yeah and it's like you're an idiot I hate you die like cancel you're canceled and then there's like the people who are like secretly watching what you're doing and are like [ __ ] love that I love it like I believe people should be canceled if they're doing something [ __ ] up

totally but like every time I've been canceled it's like dumb [ __ ] it's dumb [ __ ] and I think the only way people can be canceled is if they cancel themselves or give up themselves or if they actually are a piece of [ __ ] doing some [ __ ] up things yeah how are you thinking about your business so you have Jake Paul the brand as a business and then you have uh anti-fund as well uh which you run with uh Jeff Wu uh talk about both of those things are amazing like the deal flow

that we're seeing uh the Investments that we're making the LPS that we're bringing in it's it's actually like this flies don't [laughter] do that the Articles oh yeah there'll be an article by kill fly I didn't I didn't kill the fly you did not [laughter] fly still here in fact we put the fly in an embalmed case and you are now taking care of the flag and [laughter] position don't do the actual calls or the diligence you do which is pretty

cool yeah you're on the phone I'm so committed to it I want to get into the trenches and I want to I want I'm passionate about it like I I don't want to just like trust someone to go run off and do it there qualities [music] you look for in a founder it's someone who is hungry willing to work and you know isn't maybe too married to the one idea that they have and like understands that change is inevitable

there's something about people who have a vision where when they speak in a very matter-of-fact way about how they're going to win you know like when I talk to you about boxing it's like very important when saying you're going to man manage all this money in the Venture it's very interesting to see if you talk to a Founder they're like okay these are my metrics this is how I'm going to get there it's almost like it's they're already there in their head yeah and like reality just has to catch up personalities Drive pay-per-views you've embraced the role of the villain do

you think that that is sort of a conscious thing obviously people tuned in to watch Mayweather lose best fighter in the world yeah I mean look I think the villains the villains always go further in this Sport and you know it stems from authenticity like I've [clears throat] always just like the prod and have fun and ruffle feathers and like I was the class clown and I don't know that's just the way I've I've always been and you're good at it too like you know the internet way better than any of your opponents they

come in to play the game and I'm like you're in my territory [laughter] like you're not gonna be able to swim here super creative if you go on Instagram ask people slouching like a [ __ ] I legitimately like when I'm like beefing with these MMA fighters or really whoever it is on social media like I'm sitting there having a blast big ass I'm like just sitting at this table or wherever I'm at

like just like like giggling and like my friends are looking at me like what is [laughter] this but like I make myself laugh and I'm having so much fun doing it and so like people can hate me or love me like I I could give a give a [ __ ] well they're taking themselves too seriously in many cases in the case of somebody like Dana White I think you're exposing a big flaw in terms of fighter pay of the former system in a really healthy way in a way that Fighters should kind of embrace yeah they should be like okay Jake is

making this whole thing more transparent in terms of how underpaid we generally are yeah it's uh it's quite a big problem and look I don't know what the solution is I don't have all the answers but I do know that I have a platform to talk about it and one thing like being a fighter myself is people don't realize how expensive it is to run a camp yeah like it is it is expensive you're making me wonder how anybody but you does it because you have money from you know

your former career like I'm like how does anybody I do that with those salaries I I I honestly don't know like I think what we're seeing is just a different era of boxing social media is changing the fight game and that's what we are all witnessing it's giving that power back to the fighters every fighter has to look at themselves as a [music] media company I am a brand I need to create content I need to get my

name out [music] there and what am I worth we have set the bar so high and we're living up to the expectations it's incredible Jake I love you bro thank you for doing this amazing bro appreciate it of course hey we have to do another one in like four or five years let's yeah exactly do it every five years every five years

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