I was paid $112,000 for a HYROX race

0:00We're going to launch. We're going to launch. We're going to launch. We're going to launch. Are you okay? What's [laughter] happening? We're launching a new site. Wow. What kind of site? Can you show us? Are you ready? [music] Yeah. We are racing Hy Rocks in two weeks in Turkey. We're going to try to get sponsors and get tattoos of their brands on our skin. And eventually, we're going to get nonprofessional athletes being

0:24paid doing athlete things. [music] What is this? What the [ __ ] man? $7,000. It's absolutely insane, bro. I was selling my money on the internet. So, but which was booked [music] for $20,000 a car you have helped me create a story I will tell my child.

0:56I will choose the left chest [music] because I like to get your heart. Wow, so cute. So, when are you launching? I think in in 2 minutes. [screaming] I have one thing to say. I check I check it's working on mobile. That would be a shame if like I realize like nothing is working. Man, it's stressing all the time to launch something. There's so many little details that are kind of invisible. Checkout has to work. When you pay, I have to give you a special link for you to upload your logo. You have to be able to receive emails, which means my email sending platform has to

1:22work. When you upload your logo, my database has to work. There's a lot of tiny little things. I've been testing over and over, but you never know. You know, it's me. It's me on my phone. That's so nice. Mobile. For the people who are tech people here, this is not AI. Like, it's real me because you, Bonji, took like 300 photos of my body while I was staying still like this for like 5 minutes. And then there's an app called Poly Cam that turns those 300 photos into like a an avatar that looks like this. Then we import it to Blender and Codex MCP used the file on Blender to put it on the

1:55HTML page. Honestly, I'm happy with the result. It's pretty nice. It's very nice here. So, are we okay to press?

2:06[sighs] Ah, it's so hard. Why the tweet start with I'm selling my body. Should I click? I THINK

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2:37[music] you

2:43Go go go go go go. [music] Holy [ __ ] Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Sell the body. Few minutes later. What the [ __ ] man? What the [ __ ] 7,000. 7,000. $7,000. What? Oh, there's a mistake. What? online. 3 4 5 HELL. WHAT THE HELL, BRO? It's real. $7,000 in like 30 minutes. [laughter] Yay. [ __ ] What? No way. Look, look, look, look, look, look. This guy is super kind. Like, he's sponsored Trustmr as well. I don't know him. AI sessions

3:21and flight issues. Okay. Oh, I know him. It's a long time ago story. This guy built like an AI tool a long time ago. And I think he made a lot of money in box zero. What the hell, man? We're sponsored. We made 7,000. I'm going to race for 7,000. What the [ __ ]

3:35man? Then we have 9,000. [laughter] 9,000, man. What the [ __ ] 10,000. 10,000. 10,000. What the [ __ ] Wow.

3:5133 minute in. How many? 20,000. 20,000. Ah, they put multiple. They're completely mad. I'm going to build a rewind version so you can see the spots being added over time. [music]

4:09Good morning. We're 14 hours after the launch. I made a little thing. Boob. New theme, baby. Yeea. This uh stupid little side project also ended up being reshared a lot. I think the tweet got 3,000 likes and some news stuff started to share it. So, this is what we are sitting at. I'm gonna make my first Hyrux race being paid $32,000 if no one else buys. It's absolutely

4:39insane. There's still like about 24 hours to go until the things uh lock and then I will have to send the logos to the tattoo shop so that they can print it for my buddy. So, we'll see where those numbers go. I have a race to prepare. Good morning, guys. This is the day the auction is done. I have to show you something. This is happening. My body

5:05now is fully covered with sponsors. 112,000 US. This is what I'm going to get. Sorry. This is what I'm going to get paid for this Hyrux race as an amateur. That is just insane. I was confident we could sell a few sponsorships, but what happened is that the AI video company names Hicksfield, they went in and they bought all the spots, like literally every spots. So, my buddy was covered in their logo and their like green acid green color and it jumped from like $40,000 to $80,000. So, some people started to buy back some of the spots like some someone spent $20,000 to buy to put their icon on my glutes. That is

5:48just crazy. So the next step is to print those logos to print the shorts and uh hopefully make a good race and not get injured before the race in Turkey in one week. I wanted to thank all the sponsors of the site as well as the people who you know if you have somehow interacted with the site commented or anything I want to thank you personally because you have helped me create a story I will tell my child to show them what was their dad in his 30s. So thank you for that. That really means a lot. A quick

6:18disclaimer though, this what happened. It might sound like simple and you know like it's easy money, but I want to be clear. I spent 10 years like working on my physics, going to the gym every day, eating healthy every day. I spent another 10 years growing an audience on Twitter. I spent the last 10 years working every single day making apps and everything so I learned about like marketing, copyrightiting, and design so

6:42I can make a website that looks nice. There's a lot of hard work behind that compounded into this. And if I were to restart today, I would not do this because I don't think this is likely to work. If you're getting started from zero, I'll probably go back to the basic building a B2B SAS business. Okay, now it's time to go back to my $200 MR SAS that I was working on before. Stalker,

7:04let's go. Hello. We just arrived. The first meal of the day in Turkey. I call her my lady. [music]

7:26Oh, thank you. This is a real Turkish bakava. How can I say thank you in Turkish again? You're welcome. Enjoy. Cheers. Cheers. [music] Holy [ __ ] And you have Pyro next week. I know. And I need some cards. Oh yeah. And you need some cards. [laughter] Enjoy. This is very special day for us because we didn't expect 300 people in here to be honest. So [music] the spike here. Do not look at this. I was telling my buddy on the internet. It doesn't count. [laughter] [music] And so I encourage you to fail more. Try most of it. Fail more because this is eventually how you end up having what

8:16you want to have. Like a big round of applause for their team [music] cuz they're awesome. [applause]

8:24You could have [music] your money today and the next day you only have three days. You tried? Of course I tried. So don't you dare give up. Don't you dare give up. Don't you dare give up. [music] I keep on asking why she can't keep me [music] with all. [music]

8:52[applause]

8:57[music] So the meetup was absolutely crazy. 100 people who showed up. Some people drove 8 hours. The Turkish people are so friendly, so warm. They feed me tons of batlavas and you have to eat it upside down. And the entire team had, you know, the each lab crew, they organize everything so perfectly. The venue was

9:15so beautiful. Everything was so planned. It was probably one of the most professional meetup we've ever done. Now we are back at the hotel. Something is happening. We got we got the tattoos for the race. So, I'm going to stick this everywhere on my body, and I hope that it's going to last during the race, which probably is going to not going to happen, but at least for a few minutes, so we get some nice shots. And the butt, which was bought for $20,000 by this company, Stanley, and the guy who made the short said that maybe the QR code will not work, but it

9:48does work. It did a really good job. It's going up completely dripping of sweat. I cannot wait for the race. Cheers. We got a call in the rooms and they have a surprise for us in the lubby. You know where is it? Somebody's pulling me away. Can you go outside now, bro? Okay. Okay. Okay.

10:18There's a key and letter.

10:28[laughter] What's happening? Okay, so it's a bunch of API keys for people to build on top of their API. Plus, a branded car. We have this car until Monday, so technically we could go to Israel with a car. What? That's crazy, dude. You guys are insane. This is beautiful. They printed the logo here.

10:47Even at the front. Oh, yeah. I really hope we can go to the higher venue with this car. It would be so nice. Holy [ __ ] man. Thank you very much. Okay. Insane. [laughter] Insane. That's going to be really fun. You guys are awesome. You have a good night. Wow. Insane. Crazy. We're going to drive. Yeah. We can even go is they say you can

11:04go is with it. But how? I'll see I'll see what they mean. Okay.

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11:24We're putting the stickers.

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11:40Wow. Come on board, miss. Okay, let's go. Okay. What the [ __ ] man? That's the weirdest thing at the office. Easy, man. [music] Look at this. That's the video. All the people who do the same, right? Feel a bit shy. Wait, cuz you're cuz I look like a pro athlete that is super rich when in fact uh this is a

12:04rental car and I'm not a pro at all. How do you feel, man? And I feel pressure as [ __ ] Why? Everybody's fit. I'm the only guy with tattoos, so I look like a pro somehow. [music] I think I can do sub sub 65. That will be my go time, but I will try to go sub

12:2660. I'm open. Perfect. It's going to be very hard, but I'll try to do my best. I'll give everything I have. I wish you the best. See you at the podium, huh? I hope so. I hope so. Warm up. So, what work? I don't know.

12:44I love you.

12:50You're the best ever. 5. [music]

13:02[screaming]

13:09Let's go. [music]

13:14[music] You're doing so well. Put your Let's go.

13:24Let's go. [music]

13:33Let's go.

13:42You love it. It's way harder than I thought. It's long. It's very long and you never really rest. So you always every run is harder. I guess I have to practice run more often. Thank you. Wow. Oh, zero. 10. This one [music] and in first place with an hour and five and 11 seconds, Mark, will you be on?

14:09Yes. How are you, Ryan? Congratulations.

14:19Hello. You got Turkish people loving you because of your your dress. The way Turkish people look at me, they're like so adorable. What I think we need to throw a little update. Where the heck are we right now? So, we're in Ismir. So, it's been 3 days after Hierros competition and we did indeed fourth in our age group and ninth

14:44for the whole uh competition. Yep, that was a very intense day. It was super fun. I ended up being fifth of the male category and first of my age group with one hour five minutes which was really intense but I was really proud. So I ended up on the podium and then we run a race together which was way funnier because she started like a rocket when we said let's run easy and we ended up being I think ninth on the overall mixed double. This was super

15:10fun. So we signed up for new high rocks in Abu Dhabi. So we're going to visit Dubai and Abu Dhabi next [music] month and then France in December for another Hier rocks. So, we're going to do a world trip with high-risk competition. I think that's going to be fun. And now we are in still in Ismir, Turkey. And I think it is time to enjoy a little bit too much of [music]

15:36[music and singing] the best. We'll see you tomorrow. [music]

15:49Good. Leon, we're testing your B-roll capacity. There's a bunch of Turkish flag up our head. We're wondering if you will be able to find connecting B-roll to pretend we have a drone or some [ __ ] Let's see. Good luck. [music]

16:13[music] Hey, what's up? I'll leave my car, buddy. You have to go down. I need to move. A, he's so cute. Wow. Lifting this kid is the first formula.