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Donald Spann built a multi-million dollar call center from scratch — with no outside capital, no technical background, and no safety net. Even crazier? He sold it for $12M to the first person who ever signed up.
Here’s what we talk about:
- Dropping out of college because he knew he’d never work for anyone else
- Building a cleaning business off a Reddit thread… then using it to launch something way bigger
- Accidentally going viral and getting 65,000 applications on a mom blog
- Why he’s never raised a dollar of capital — and never plans to
- His $12M exit from a bootstrapped call center (and how the buyer was his first-ever customer)
- Breaking down his finances: no real estate, no advisor, just stocks and angel bets
- Growing up Black in a private school bubble and how that shaped everything
- Living on $10K/month in Mexico and self-funding a new mezcal brand
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Chapters:
- (1:26) Donald’s Net Worth & Current Ventures
- (3:57) Early Life, Education, and First Lessons
- (7:40) First Businesses & Getting Into Y Combinator
- (10:49) Building and Selling the Cleaning Business
- (14:02) The Successful Exit of Vicki Virtual
- (18:54) Personality, Confidence, and Entrepreneurial Edge
- (22:41) Meritocracy, Hard Work, and the Role of Luck
- (25:40) Reflections on Success & Personal Growth
- (29:02) Race, Identity, and the Entrepreneurial Journey
This podcast is a ridiculous concept: high-net-worth people reveal their personal finances. Inspired by real conversations happening in the Hampton community.
Your Host: Harry Morton
- Founder of Lower Street, a podcast production company helping brands launch and grow top-tier podcasts.
- Co-parents a cow named Eliza.
What is Moneywise?
This is Moneywise, a podcast where hosts Sam Parr and Harry Morton are joined by high-net-worth guests to explore exclusive insights into personal finance and lifestyle tailored for other high-net-worth people, or those on their way. They'll get radically transparent about the numbers, revealing things like their burn rates, portfolios, and spending habits. This podcast was made for the Hampton community, a private, highly-vetted, peer membership community for founders and CEOs of fast-growing, tech-enabled startups. Check it out at https://joinhampton.com/.