Can The DailyWire Destroy Mainstream Media? - Jeremy Boreing

What do you say when people ask you what you do?

I say that I am just a lowly shampoo, razor, and chocolate mogul.

(laughs)

I've only been saying that for about a week though. (chuckles)

Yeah. That's a, a new, a new industry for you. What, what-

No, it, it is a terrifying question when people ask you what you do when you're an entrepreneur because, uh, y- you never quite know what to lead with. And whatever you lead with will be the box that people put you in. So I, I, uh, I try never to answer the question very honestly. When I was a teenager, I had... I was the first person I knew with a cell phone other than, you know, bankers who I didn't know. But I was an, I was an early adopter of the, of the flip phone. And my first voicemail, I sa- I was probably 17 and I said, uh, "Jeremy Boring, writer, producer, and shameless self-promoter."

Ah, very nice. Yeah. I, I, I feel that myself as well. You know, what, wha- wha- what do you say about who you are? You know, you... What you do very largely determines the way that people see you. And-

Yeah.

... yeah, if you've got a lot of different things, you're interested in lots of different things. That being said, the word entrepreneur is the most wanky title that anybody could bestow on themselves. Second only to thought leader.

Yeah. Well, I, I certainly never, uh, identified myself as either of those two things.

(laughs) Can you give me the origin story of The Daily Wire from your perspective? I'd be very interested to hear this.

Yeah, absolutely. Uh, you know, a long time ago, a boy loved a girl in 1979. No. The, the real truth is that The Daily Wire, w- it is one of those kinds of stories. So many sundry paths that were all seemingly leading in different directions brought us to this moment where The Daily Wire was formed. You have Ben Shapiro who, you know, wunderkind, child prodigy, violinist who wanted to be the first Jewish me- member of the Supreme Court, uh, who became the youngest nationally syndicated columnist as a teenager, had his first best-selling book as a teenager, who, you know, pro- went to Harvard Law and imagined a future for himself working in law and then politics, but who found himself being the fastest talker, talking person in an industry known for slow talking. Uh, you've got me who, you know, kind of the classic go West young man, small town, big aspirations guy, moves to Hollywood to be an actor, and sort of quickly encounters the reality that he doesn't have what it takes to succeed in, in that business. Uh, for i- in phases came to that realization. Um, you have Caleb Robinson, our co-founder and co-CEO, who, you know, very, got married very early, had his first kid as a teenager, and his first business as well as a, as a teenager, putting in docks underwater in lakes in Texas. Like, we just all had this background that in no way seemed like it was pointed toward running a, a major media company. But, you know, the, the shorter window version of it is that I met Ben Shapiro at a Coffee Bean on, uh, Ventura Boulevard in Studio City, and I recognized pretty quickly that Ben was a once-in-a-generation talent, and a lot of the things that people thought were liabilities, for example, how quickly he speaks, I thought could be real assets if deployed in the right areas. And I was in a low moment sort of in my Hollywood aspiration, my Hollywood journey.