Business on the Joe Rogan Experience

“He once shut down an entire domain name, which had 11 million websites on it, because he thought it was kind of poor quality.”

Epstein claims a former Google employee unilaterally shut down an entire domain hosting 11 million websites because he deemed it low quality.

“So 94, 96% of all donations out of Google go to Democrats, which I sympathize with. I'm from a family of Democrats. I lean left.”

Epstein claims 94-96% of all donations from Google go to Democrats.

“has $150 billion in the bank right now in cash, makes huge donations to political candidates, and then can shift votes, millions of votes nationwide without an…”

Epstein claims Google/Alphabet holds $150 billion in cash and makes huge direct donations to political candidates.

“we had a good run and 85 million bracelets yeah but look i mean i don't want anybody to be mistaken my interests were selfish”

Armstrong states that roughly 85 million Livestrong yellow bracelets were sold/distributed.

“I mean, you look at Trek Bicycles, for example. I mean, before the first tour, I think we did $125 million in sales. We do a billion now.”

Armstrong claims Trek Bicycle Corporation's annual sales went from about $125 million before his first Tour de France win to about a billion dollars by 2015, implying his sponsorship drove that growth.

“Elon's a bad businessman, Twitter is worth you know 400% less than when he bought it. No, it wasn't worth that in the first place. It wasn't worth 44 billion d…”

Musk disputes reports that Twitter/X lost roughly 400% of its value since his acquisition, claiming it was never actually worth the $44 billion purchase price to begin with.

“The entire AR VR world was built off of my first patent that was abandoned because I paid $260,000 for the worldwide patent.”

Howard claims his abandoned first patent (paid $260,000 for worldwide rights) is the foundation the entire AR/VR industry was built on.

“When Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre sold Beats by Dre Universal had a chance to buy in to do different things. They sold it for three billion dollars.”

Kanye West claims Universal had a chance to buy into Beats by Dre when Iovine and Dre sold it for three billion dollars.

“Now, I think is worth thirty three, thirty five billion dollars, and now they have another Steve Jobs, you know, Howard Hughes, Henry Ford, Disney, Elon kind o…”

Kanye West claims Universal Music Group is currently worth thirty-three to thirty-five billion dollars.

“That was half of the value of Universal at the time of six billion due to the Internet, which the music industry was afraid of in 2000. Universal.”

Kanye West claims Universal Music Group was worth about six billion dollars around the time of the Beats sale.

“You know, there's only two car companies in the history of American car companies that haven't gone bankrupt, and that's Ford and Tesla.”

Musk claims that Ford and Tesla are the only two American car companies in history that have never gone bankrupt.

“I was 53 million dollars in debt, you know, four years ago. And now it's proven that I'm the new Michael Jordan of products. I went to Adidas and we were 15 bi…”

Kanye West claims he was $53 million in debt four years earlier, and describes turning around Adidas's finances and stock/market cap performance since his partnership.