Open Residency

Learn more about the Kinnect Foundation, Kith’s nonprofit → kinnectfoundation.org
Ronnie Fieg is giving you The Kith Playbook: seven decisions behind the brand, from no paid ads to stores worth the trip → Get the playbook
Ronnie Fieg launched Kith 15 years ago and scaled it into a global fashion and footwear business without outside capital, paid advertising, influencers, or traditional wholesale channels.
We get into the BMW and Armani collaborations, how Ronnie approaches brand coherence across lines as different as Kith Treats and golf equipment, and what putting together the 15-year archive book taught him about the real cost of building a lasting brand.
🔗 RONNIE FIEG
Website: kith.com
Instagram: @ronniefieg
Instagram (Kith): @kith
Download the Kith App: kith.com/pages/kith-app
🎙️ OPEN RESIDENCY
Instagram: @openresidency
Instagram: @markbrazil
LinkedIn: Mark Mastrandrea
Website: openresidency.com
Email: info@openresidency.com
⏱️ CHAPTERS
00:00:00 Trailer
00:01:08 What 15 Years on the Sales Floor Taught Him
00:10:17 The Difference Between Taste and Style
00:17:57 The Golf Collab He Almost Said No To
00:21:45 The 2007 ASICS Shoe Nobody Recognized
00:29:00 Why He Walked Away From 800 Visitors a Day
00:39:10 Six Samples to Get One Hoodie Right
00:43:46 Give People More Than What They Pay For
00:51:16 He Still Buys 6 to 8 Pairs of Shoes a Week
00:57:18 The New Luxury Is Emotion, Not Price
01:02:39 Why Kith Spends on Stores, Not Ads
01:10:11 Why Kith Drops Something New Every Monday
01:13:59 The BMW Poster That Became a Collab
01:19:54 The Ideas BMW and Coca-Cola Said No To
01:27:33 The Trips Where Nobody Is Asked to Post
01:32:03 Why Giorgio Armani Is His Proudest Collab
01:36:14 From Lifelong Fan to Knicks Creative Director
01:46:53 What Building Kith Has Cost Him
01:52:44 How Kith Mentors High School Students
01:54:12 Every Kith Shoe in One Book
01:56:44 Where Kith Goes in the Next 15 Years
01:59:14 Quickstrike Questions

Paddy Galloway is giving you The Virality Playbook — 50 thumbnails per video for Red Bull → Get the free playbook
Paddy Galloway has generated over 50 billion views for clients including Red Bull, MrBeast, and the Philadelphia Eagles. He's the highest-paid YouTube strategist in the world, and in this conversation he explains how viral content actually gets built. Paddy covers his complete system for ideation, packaging, and retention, and why the next decade will reward whoever controls attention.
You'll hear about the CCN framework, the 100-to-1 idea funnel, and the title and thumbnail principles that can multiply a video's performance by 40x overnight. Paddy talks about why most brand YouTube channels fail, and what separates content that performs from content that gets ignored. This is applied strategy from someone who's proven the model at scale.
🔗 PADDY GALLOWAY
Website: paddygalloway.com
Course: Paddy Galloway Accelerator
Newsletter: Join Paddy’s newsletter
Instagram: @paddygalloway
X: @PaddyG96
YouTube: Paddy Galloway
LinkedIn: Paddy Galloway
🎙️ OPEN RESIDENCY
Instagram: @openresidency
Mark’s Instagram: @markbrazil
Mark’s LinkedIn: Mark Mastrandrea
Website: openresidency.com
Email: info@openresidency.com
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⏱️ CHAPTERS
00:00:00 Trailer
00:01:00 How Red Bull Went From 400K to 9M Views
00:04:09 Why Every Other Business Moat Is Dying
00:09:03 Your Idea Caps Your Views Before You Film
00:16:36 What He Learns From 100-Subscriber Channels
00:21:02 The Three Viewers Every Video Has to Hit
00:29:17 Why Your Audience Won't Follow You Anywhere
00:33:24 What Every 100M-View Video Has in Common
00:40:11 The Three Places Ideas Actually Come From
00:49:04 The Thumbnail Everyone in Business Copied
00:52:31 100 Ideas to Make 1 Video
01:02:42 20% Better Thumbnail, 40x the Views
01:13:18 Ten Titles, Three Thumbnails, Every Video
01:20:20 When to Panic After You Hit Publish
01:27:42 How to Write a Title People Click
01:37:28 The Only Two Metrics He Trusts
01:43:08 The 45-Second Intro Formula
01:52:14 The Algorithm Is Always Behind the Audience
01:57:26 Storytelling Is Useless Without Stakes
02:01:36 Don't Start a Channel You Can't Commit To
02:10:12 The Pendulum Between Quality and Packaging
02:16:09 The One Thing AI Still Can't Do
02:19:00 Why YouTube Is Beating Netflix and Disney
02:25:22 Quickstrike Questions

We turned every framework, formula, and strategy from the episode into one free PDF → https://openresidency.com/roman-khan-playbook?utm_source=spotify&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=roman_khan_playbook

Roman Khan was $3 million in the hole at 32. By the time he hit his late thirties, he pulled eight figures in cash out of his businesses without selling a single one. The founder of Peak21 and the operator behind Linjer, Raycon, and Nutrition Kitchen walks through the supply chain mechanics that made it possible: bill of materials, payment terms, consignment structures, and how to make your supplier front the capital. He covers dividend recaps, the red/green/blue Slack system he uses to manage 110 people across six cities, and the A Method hiring framework that cut his team turnover by half. This one's part operator manual, part wealth-building case study.

⏱️ CHAPTERS
00:00:00 Trailer
00:01:01 -$3M In Debt To $13M In Cash
00:02:19 The Four Levers of Supply Chain
00:03:16 What a Bill of Materials Actually Is
00:05:37 Why 99 of 100 Founders Have No Bill of Materials
00:17:35 How to Negotiate Price Breaks
00:27:02 Tariffs and Who Eats the Cost
00:29:45 Payment Terms and the Float That Funds You
00:34:12 Consignment: The Holy Grail of Payment Terms
00:36:12 Turning Your Supplier Into Your Bank
00:43:07 Closing the Books by the 15th Every Month
00:45:32 Pulling 75% of Profits Out Every Month
00:48:18 Why You Work for Zuck, Not Yourself
00:53:19 How a Dividend Recap Works
01:00:33 Where He Puts the Cash
01:08:02 Spotting AppLovin Before Wall Street
01:13:17 Picks and Shovels Over Consumer Brands
01:16:58 Splitting an $85M Ad Budget by Channel
01:21:53 Day Rates, Fixed Fees and Paying Creators
01:24:07 What's Broken in Your Meta Account
01:33:12 The One Metric He Watches in Meta
01:38:04 $70M Spent on YouTube Sponsorships
01:44:04 4X-ing Influencer Outreach With AI
01:53:02 Why Localization Is the Last Big Unlock
01:56:57 Becoming the Supplier He Buys From
02:02:54 How 16,000 Twitter Followers Built His Deal Flow
02:07:02 Why Micromanagement Is Actually a Gift
02:19:05 The Hiring Book That Took Him to $200M
02:26:34 Building the Scorecard for a Head of Finance
02:36:55 Top Grading Every Job They've Had
02:41:14 $100K in New York vs $20K in Shenzhen
02:45:53 The Biggest Hiring Mistake He's Made
02:48:03 What He Cuts First When He Buys a Business
02:52:45 Quickstrike Questions

🔗 ROMAN KHAN
Website: https://roman-khan.com/
Newsletter: https://roman-khan.com/
X: https://x.com/RomanEcom
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raisuddinkhan

🎙️ OPEN RESIDENCY
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/markbrazil/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markmastrandrea/
Website: https://openresidency.com/
Email: info@openresidency.com

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Nima Jalali is giving you The Salt and Stone Founder Playbook, every framework from profitable day one to nine-figure exits → https://openresidency.com/nima-jalali-playbook
Nima Jalali built Salt and Stone to 9 figures in revenue, stayed profitable from day one, and ran the company for years without outside investors. He shares the three pillars that turned his deodorant into a bestseller on Amazon and in Sephora, plus how he closed two major liquidity events in under 18 months while keeping control. He also gets specific about finding manufacturers without using Alibaba, the collaboration strategy that led to partnerships with Brain Dead, Aritzia, and Kendall Jenner's 818, and the mindset that carried him through two PE deals that reportedly totaled over $500M.
🔗 NIMA JALALI
Website: https://www.saltandstone.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nimajalali
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nima-jalali-07367568
🎙️ OPEN RESIDENCY
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CHAPTERS
00:00:00 Trailer
00:00:51 The Snowboarder Who Went Pro
00:03:36 From ACL to Starting a Brand
00:10:49 Why Deodorant Over Everything
00:18:48 The Formula That Took Years
00:21:55 Outselling P&G and Unilever
00:25:38 Number One at Sephora and Amazon
00:31:32 Why Collabs Aren't About the Money
00:35:21 Building 9 Figure Brand Fully Remote
00:47:43 Two Bites of the Apple
00:54:43 Why He Left Money on the Table
01:01:25 Quickstrike Questions

Tyler Denk is giving you The Newsletter Playbook · beehiiv's path to $50M ARR → https://openresidency.com/tyler-denk-playbook?utm_source=spotify&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=tyler_denk_playbook
Tyler Denk turned Big Desk Energy, his newsletter, into a $400,000 side business working five hours a week. He did it by building and using beehiiv, the newsletter platform he co-founded. This conversation covers the entire playbook: pre-launch waitlists, email gates, referral programs, the Boost network, lead magnets, and paid acquisition.
You'll also hear about the five main ways to monetize a newsletter, why Tyler raised a $12.5M Series A in six days, and how he manages 130 remote employees with almost no one leaving. It's a detailed look at founder-led distribution and newsletter economics.
⏱ CHAPTERS
00:00:00 Trailer
00:00:42 What Big Desk Energy Actually Is
00:02:50 Building in Public Before the Product
00:07:31 Pre-Launch Waitlist Strategy
00:09:13 Email Gates and the Content Flywheel
00:11:58 Referral Programs and Beyond
00:17:13 The Boost Network and Cross-Promotion
00:21:27 Lead Magnets That Actually Convert
00:24:26 Five Ways to Monetize a Newsletter
00:28:39 Direct Sponsorships and the Media Kit
00:41:44 Digital Products and Paid Subscriptions
00:47:54 The Costa Rica Founder Mastermind
00:52:39 Building in Public: Wins and Backfires
01:06:24 The beehiiv MCP and Agentic Workflows
01:26:38 Creator Economy in the AI Era
01:31:27 Running 130 People Fully Remote
01:35:32 Weekly Success List and All-Hands Rhythm
01:42:51 The $12.5M Series A in Six Days
01:50:29 Quickstrike Questions
🔗 TYLER DENK
Website: https://bigdeskenergy.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tylerdenk_/
X: https://x.com/denk_tweets
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tyler-denk/
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