Chris KoernerSerial Entrepreneur and Content Creator

The Secret to How I Landed a Major Celebrity Business Partner (You Can Too)

13 Sept 2024 · 1 min

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This YouTube video (by Chris Koerner) opens with a first-person anecdote about how the narrator recruited John McAfee as a celebrity business partner for a crypto venture. Koerner describes cold-emailing McAfee, meeting him at his Tennessee home at 1:23pm, and convincing him—on camera—to promote a crypto price-prediction product. McAfee agreed to post twice weekly in exchange for 25% of the business; the promotion helped the project build a community of about 70,000 people and launch a token that hit a $30 million market cap within three months. A year later the market crashed and the business failed; the storyteller identifies himself as the entrepreneur in the story.

Questions this video answers

1:23pm

Twice per week

25% of the business

About 70,000 people

Approximately $30 million market cap in three months

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Look at this freaking guy right here. You will not believe what this guy did. So this guy walked up to John McAfee's house, the accused murderer, founder of McAfee Security, and asked him to partner with him on a business idea. He had figured out a math equation that accurately predicted crypto price movements, and he wanted McAfee's help to pitch this to his social media following, to sell access to it. So after he guessed McAfee's email address and finally got a response, McAfee said, Show up at my house in Tennessee at 1:23pm But I won't give you the address until the morning of. He was a little paranoid, little psycho. Finally, after pitching him on the idea in front of an Australian film crew, of all things, he said the idea was brilliant and agreed to share it twice per week on social media in exchange for 25% of the business. McAfee lived up to his word. It went massively viral, and together, these guys built a community of 70,000 people and built a crypto token that reached a $30 million market cap in three months. A year later, the business died, the market crashed, and the guy in this story is me.