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My First Million

Steph Smith: “This opportunity is totally overlooked”

April 14, 202641 min · 7,992 words

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Get Steph's database with 100+ stats that will shape the next decade: Episode 814: In this special episode, we’re pulling our best moments with the trends queen herself, Steph Smith ( ). — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (0:44) Silver Tsunami (8:05) Sports (11:39) Mega trends (declining birthrate, air quality) (21:41) Nerd Neck (25:49) Nature (32:02) Breakup Spending — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton (joinhampton.com): My community for founders.

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Four out of every five are run as for-profits and half of all the operators in the industry are clearing annual returns of 20% or more than it costs to operate.
because Japanese people really care about status. If, let's say, they grew up in a poor neighborhood, their parents passed away, and then they've moved into, you know, a different social strata, they don't want to claim the house because they're like, I don't want to be associated with that neighborhood.
I think it's going to take a marketer for people to care. It's just going to take a marketer and a product design that puts it in your face and that educates you about this and kind of scares you about it but then says don't worry there's a solution
the elderly curve goes from today, right? Like kind of like the 2020, early 2020s, where it's under 1 billion. It's by far the smallest line to it's going to cross over the young population and be at, you know, by the end of the, where this has it projected, 2.5 billion.

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