Mike Melton and Andy Elliott tour a luxury yacht while discussing what it takes to start a company. They emphasize relentless persistence, 18-20 hour workdays, and surrounding yourself with the right people. The conversation includes a spontaneous jump off the yacht and casual humor throughout.
So here's the— here's the yacht we're going on today. It's called the Fratello. Look at that thing right there. All right, we're gonna start vlogging more. M1 says, man, you got to start vlogging. So we— what's the first one? On the damn Fratello, the big yacht. That's what we're going to be doing right here. So let's go. Oh, there she is. How you doing? All right, let's get on there. I'm an expert, sir. Watch out, like Michael Jordan over here. All right, let's get on this daggum thing. Big old yacht. Now this ain't no regular 26-foot boat. I don't know how big this son of a bitch is. Vlogging, vlogging, whatever you want to call it. At least I can't see up your skirt. There we go. That's what the top of this thing, big old thing, looks like. That's a big table. We're gonna be partying out here today. Now when you say people are characters, now I'm one of the biggest fucking characters out here.
That's right.
But we, we need some business advice. So if you got one young person out here that's never started a company, what is your best advice for somebody like that?
You're gonna get your balls kicked in. That's just a part of life. But you're gonna fail, but you never— you never retreat because you fail. Like, you learn a lesson, you get better, and then one day you look up, you got a big beautiful business. Everybody wants to know how you did it, and, uh, it was because you didn't quit.
Yeah, I mean, I mean, a lot, a lot of people think you go in business, you get more time and you make more money. It's the damn total opposite.
No, you work all day and then you go home and you work all night.
Yeah, they don't understand them 18, 20-hour days. They don't understand it.
No, but, but if you do it right though, you don't always stay the operator. You eventually become the business owner one day.
Yeah.
And you build an operator, which is what you had to start being. And then when that operator runs your company, then you own the business, and then you're no longer in the business 18 hours a day and you're in it for 2 hours a day.
Yeah.
Or 2 hours a week.
Yeah.
Depends on how good of the operator you have.
Yeah.
Yeah, so I think everybody will get to where they want to go, you know, if you outlast everybody and don't quit and keep getting better.
Be around the right people, that's the biggest thing, being around the right people.
That's right.
Yeah, yeah.
So there's your advice. Don't fall off, Eric, for young or old.
I would just pass Jeffrey Epstein's island right here. They run that boat all the way up on the damn beach through the rocks. Now they got to get— try to get rescued.
Crazy.
Come on! Yo! All right, go ahead and jump.
Let's go, let's see him.
It's pretty, it's pretty far off this yacht now. Don't be scared now, you got the, you got the Superman shorts on. Jump out to your right. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, go! All right, they're up, they're good to go.
