This 20 Year Old makes $3.6M/Year interviewing strangers

TL;DR

A 20-year-old named Josh makes $300,000/month ($3.6M/year) by productizing street interviews for brands, walking 30–50k steps/day in parks to film testimonials. The video also examines Bill Ackman’s viral “May I meet you” pickup line, the founding story of MTV, the persistence of Calm’s founders, and the importance of noticing overlooked details.

Key insights

• Bill Ackman’s “May I meet you” line became a viral meme; speakers debate its effectiveness versus casual directness, noting that as long as a girl laughs, anything can work.
• The street interview agency works because most founders are too embarrassed or exhausted to do it themselves; the kid productized an ad format no one else wanted to execute.
• MTV’s founder explicitly hired “pot smoking guys in high school who sat in the back of the class that could draw well” who knew nothing about making TV shows.