Dan Martell

Dan Martell has built and exited three technology companies and invested in over a hundred more, and now spends most of his time building AI startups at Martell Ventures, his venture studio. He wrote the Wall Street Journal bestseller Buy Back Your Time, whose argument — that founders should buy back the hours that drain them rather than chase more revenue — is the organising idea behind most of his teaching.

He names teaching as his first passion ahead of building, and the material reflects it: pricing away from hourly billing, the clarity a leader owes a team, and the habits that quietly prevent wealth rather than the ones that create it.

He is also unusually direct about his own history, describing ending up in jail and rehab at seventeen before any of this. Around 3.05 million subscribers.