A guy turned 40 and got Nelly to perform at his birthday party for free by offering e-commerce help and paying $60k for a private jet instead of Nelly's usual $300-500k booking fee. He calls it a top-three life moment.
How'd you get Nelly at your birthday party? What was that about? So I turned 40 in May. What's the most ridiculous thing you could do if you're me having your 40th? Like, from my high school to early college, Nelly was like the biggest rapper on the planet, and he's from my hometown. $300,000 just as a starting price. By the time you do it all, it's half a million dollars. And then the entrepreneur in me goes, wait, come on, there's got to be another way to approach this. So St. Louis is not a big place. I asked a couple of people, I go, you introduce me. Nelly is actually working on two big e-commerce businesses. And I go, ooh, tell me more. And they tell me all about it. I'm like, okay, well, here's the thing you should think about. Here's a Shopify This, here's a good contractor for this. Really helping their team get it going. And they're like, oh, what can we be helpful? I'm like, funny you ask. A young man's dream would be to have Nelly at his birthday party. And they're like, he would do it as a friend now because you've helped him, but he just can't make the date work. I'm like, what if I fly him private both ways? And they go, we'll talk to him. For $60 grand, I got him a round trip on a G4. He was amazing at the party, dude. It was a top 3 life moment. Like, it was unbelievable.
