Car Dealership Guy: From Anonymous VC-Backed CEO to B2B Media with Yossi Levi
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Warp: Don’t let payroll and compliance hold your startup back: visit https://www.joinwarp.com/peel to get started and receive a $1,000 gift card when you first run payroll. Get first-party targeting with Brave's private ad platform: cookieless and future proof ad formats for all your business needs. Performance meets privacy. Head to brave.com/brave-ads/ and mention “Turpentine” when signing up for a 25% discount on your first campaign. Yossi Levi shares his incredible story: transforming a small family car lot into a $28 million dollar powerhouse, founding venture-backed Gettacar and growing it to $90 million in revenue, before returning the capital to investors and growing his anonymous Twitter account into Car Dealership Guy, a B2B automotive media empire. Yossi takes us inside his early marketing strategies, the hard earned lessons from chasing product-market fit, and the playbook to building a lean, scalable B2B media machine. Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (07:26) Helping at his dad’s used car lot (11:22) How car dealerships make money (14:32) $28m revenue with Facebook ads  (17:48) Putting gifts in customer trunks and filming it (22:58) Starting Gettacar to sell cars online (25:04) When a VC pulled his first term sheet (31:08) Recruiting full-time hires with part-time consulting gigs (34:45) Personally guaranteeing the debt used to finance vehicles (36:50) Helping subprime consumers buy cars online (39:24) How 2021 tricked them into thinking they had a sustainable business (41:57) Why you can’t rush Product Market Fit (42:23) Pivoting Gettacar to a profitable, PE-backed business before winding it down (47:22) Starting an anonymous Twitter to share insights from his day-to-day (50:08) Turning Car Dealership Guy into a media business  (53:38) Doxing himself with a 13-minute documentary  (58:29) Why you have to consume to be a good creator (1:00:04) Screensharing CDGs content schedule (1:02:59) Why every employee needs to generate content or revenue (1:09:27) Creating a car / auto influencer agency (1:11:34) Building a B2B automotive ad network (1:14:50) Evolving into a holding company (1:20:27) Importance of moving fast  (1:23:34) Why people actually like sponsored content (1:28:08) Wishing he pivoted to B2B faster More on Car Dealership Guy: ⁠https://www.dealershipguy.com/ Referenced Who the F*ck is Car Dealership Guy: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wTsAez_nMs⁠ Russ Flips Whips: ⁠https://russ.dealershipguy.com/⁠ Freight Waves’ Craig Fuller on The Peel: ⁠⁠https://youtu.be/oPPqO8eBq2M⁠ Epic Gardening’s Kevin Espiritu on The Peel: ⁠https://youtu.be/FefGL-qPzDo⁠  Where to find Yossi: Twitter: ⁠https://twitter.com/GuyDealership⁠ YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@CarDealershipGuy⁠ Where to find Turner: Twitter: ⁠https://twitter.com/TurnerNovak⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/turnernovak/⁠ Newsletter: ⁠https://www.thespl.it/
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