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The Advantage with Mike Wystrach

WiseTrack Co.

Business

Frequency: 1 episode/7d. Total Eps: 5

The Advantage is a weekly show for founders and operators. The people building DTC, CPG, and e-commerce companies. Hosted by Mike Wystrach, who built Freshly to $550M+ in revenue and its 2020 sale to Nestlé in a deal valued at up to $1.5 billion, and now invests in and builds consumer businesses.

Every episode is a candid, tactical conversation with a founder or operator about how they actually did it: the fundraises that nearly died, the pivots that worked and the ones that didn't, the channels that scaled, the hires that mattered, and the numbers behind them.

New episodes every week. Follow the show so you never miss one.

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🇩🇪 Germany - Entrepreneurship
07/09/2026
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How to hire fast in a startup | Leandro Cabrini

Season 1 · Episode 5

Wednesday, September 2, 2026 • Duration 56:48

We turned the six moves from this episode into one free PDF, The Cabrini Playbook → https://mikewystrach.com/get/leandro-playbook

Presented by Proppel. Get 10% off your first hire: https://www.weareproppel.com/theadvantage

Follow Mike on Instagram: https://instagram.com/mikewystrach

In this episode Mike and Leandro cover the task list that has to exist before the job description, the purpose every interview stage needs, the test project, the onboarding almost nobody builds, and the time zone trick for founders with no process yet. The rule underneath all of it is the one Mike has hired by for a decade: go get the person you technically cannot afford.

Full disclosure, and Mike says it in the first minute: Proppel is the presenting sponsor of this show. He found them through Google and ChatGPT, hired through them, and went to them about sponsoring afterwards.

⏱️ CHAPTERS
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:38 He Started A Recruitment Agency Without Ever Running One
00:06:41 Freshly Had 2,500 Employees And 700 Were International
00:09:01 Cheaper Talent Lets You Hire Three Months Earlier
00:14:40 Everyone Can Hire. Onboarding Is Where It Breaks
00:17:35 Write The Task List Before You Write The Job Description
00:21:50 Time Zone Is The Cheat Code When You Have No Process
00:23:29 Hire The Person You Technically Can't Afford
00:34:55 A US Creative Strategist Costs $150K. In LATAM, $6 To $8K A Month
00:45:44 The Real Cost Of Hiring Is Not Having To Hire

🔗 LEANDRO CABRINI
Proppel: https://www.weareproppel.com/theadvantage
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leacabrini
The Talent Standard: https://www.youtube.com/@Proppel

🎙️ THE ADVANTAGE
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-advantage-with-mike-wystrach/id6783458081
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033DuFkyBRu3qvgp8ozPz1
All episodes: https://mikewystrach.com/podcast
Free playbook: https://mikewystrach.com/get/leandro-playbook

⚡ PRESENTED BY PROPPEL
Get 10% off your first hire: https://www.weareproppel.com/theadvantage

#howtohire #Proppel #TheAdvantage #MikeWystrach #Hiring

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Your time is worth more than your wealth | Kenny Santucci

Season 1 · Episode 4

Wednesday, August 26, 2026 • Duration 46:47

Kenny Santucci did nine seasons of MTV's The Challenge. Today he trains Bon Jovi, guys from the Knicks, and whichever WWE wrestlers are in town, out of two New York gyms he owns.

Presented by Proppel — hire A-player marketing and ops talent from the US and LATAM. Get 10% off your first hire: https://www.weareproppel.com/theadvantage

Follow Mike on Instagram: https://instagram.com/mikewystrach

CHAPTERS
00:00:00 The Month He Lost Under Armour And HYROX
00:01:45 Nine Seasons On MTV's The Challenge
00:04:02 Start Before You Know What You're Doing
00:08:09 What A Two-Year Lawsuit Teaches You About Partners
00:16:38 Why Community Is The Only Moat A Gym Has
00:19:17 Rebuilding From A Push Cart In A Public Park
00:26:55 Bon Jovi, The Knicks, And Who Else Walks In
00:27:44 $500K Used To Be Rich. Now $5M Makes You A Loser
00:29:28 Admit You Don't Know Business, Then Ask For Help
00:37:02 Own Your Distribution Or Rent Someone Else's Audience

Everything between those two sentences is the part nobody puts on a highlight reel. He came off television and took the New Jersey civil service test his father wanted him to take, and got hired onto a fire department — he describes standing in the line-up thinking this was going to be the rest of his life. He partnered into a gym in Jersey with no idea how business worked and nobody to ask, and it ended in a two-year lawsuit. He built a 5:30am class at Solace that packed out for years while the equity he was promised never arrived.

Then in January 2020 he signed Under Armour and HYROX in the same month, and weeks later both deals were gone and New York was shut. He pushed a cart of kettlebells to the park at 28th and 10th because it was the only way left to work, and the wheel came off on the way. People walking past asked to join. That is The Strength Club, now in Flatiron and Caldwell NJ, and Strong New York — the festival Forbes named one of the best in the country, taking over the Glasshouse on September 26.
He is sharp on what the money noise does to people. Growing up he didn't know anyone earning $500,000 a year, and now the going line is that $5 million a year makes you a loser. Ask him the ten-year plan and there is no exit in it. His merch says bury me in the gym.KENNY SANTUCCIInstagram: Website: Strong New York: The Strength Club: PRESENTED BY PROPPELProppel places A-player marketing and operations talent from the US, LATAM and beyond — video editors, designers and media buyers through to managers, directors and VPs. It's performance-based: a one-off fee only once you actually hire someone, no retainers, no ongoing costs, and every hire comes with a three-month guarantee.Get 10% off your first hire: THE ADVANTAGEAll episodes:

$600M Operator: Start in a Niche. Just Don't Plan to Stay There. | Sam McBride

Season 1 · Episode 3

Wednesday, August 19, 2026 • Duration 01:03:04

Sam McBride is the CEO of Kettle & Fire and the founder of Colter Ventures, where he writes $40 to $150 million checks into a handful of businesses at a time.

This episode is presented by Proppel. Hire A-player marketing and ops talent from the US and LATAM, and get 10% off your first hire: https://www.weareproppel.com/theadvantage

Full show notes and everything mentioned: https://mikewystrach.com/podcast/sam-mcbride

A year out of school and working in healthcare M&A, McBride sold a $10 million piece of business to a division he did not work in. He asked his MD what that was worth to him and got a story about how long the man had waited for his yacht club membership. He quit. Then he called a

mentor who was buying home security companies and offered to work for $30,000 a year for six months, on one condition: he wanted to be an executive immediately. He was 21.

Every decision since has the same shape. He joined RXBAR as roughly its fourth employee and was there when Kellogg bought it for $600 million. He put $44 million into a bone broth company he had sat on the board of for years, and took the CEO seat when its chief executive proposed they

swap and run it together. The most portable thing he says is about niches.

McBride is blunt that the niche was the training ground rather than the destination. The time in it is what made every later decision obvious, which is why he tells founders to start narrow and plan the way

out at the same time.

He is unsentimental about the job itself. One problem after another, almost no credit, and getting kicked in the head often enough that you stop expecting otherwise. Once in a while there is an outcome. The other 99% is the part you have to like.

Navigating the Creator Economy | Vitalii Dodonov, Stan

Season 1 · Episode 2

Wednesday, August 12, 2026 • Duration 49:09

Vitalii Dodonov is the co-founder and CTO of Stan, a creator commerce platform that's generated over $600M for it's creators. Every other platform in the category takes 10 to 20 percent of what a creator sells. Stan takes nothing.

Presented by Proppel. Hire A-player marketing and ops talent from the US and LATAM, and get 10% off your first hire: https://www.weareproppel.com/theadvantage

Mike's IG: https://www.instagram.com/mikewystrach/

In late 2022 Stan was doing roughly $1 million a year, and a slice of that was commission. They had added the cut for the reason everyone adds it: the rest of the category had one. Then Vitalii and his co-founder John Hu built the spreadsheet that killed it. They deleted transaction fees entirely and put the business on a flat $30 a month. Revenue went from $1 million to $15 million to $27 million.

Giving up a take rate at $1 million ARR means giving up the fastest-compounding line in the business. Mike walks him back into the room where that call was made, who pushed back, and what settled it. Vitalii is also clear that removing the fee is not what caused the 8.5x. The growth came from building a product people talked about, on no marketing budget.

A team of 30 changes the operative question: it stops being what to build and becomes what to refuse to build. And the thesis underneath is strange for a monetization company. Monetization was never the hard part. Attention is easy to accumulate and almost nobody knows what to do with it. Distribution is the bottleneck, and creator churn is structural rather than a product failure. That produced Stanley, the AI head of content Stan built in 14 days.

Chapters

00:00:00 Introduction

00:07:46 He Turned Down A Mid-Six-Figure Amazon Offer

00:14:01 Time In The Arena Beats Founder Dating

The Best Hire beehiiv Almost Never Made | Daniel Berk

Season 1 · Episode 1

Wednesday, August 5, 2026 • Duration 52:00

Daniel Berk is giving you the Owned Audience Playbook · beehiiv's first sales hire on betting on yourself

Presented by Proppel · A-player marketing and ops talent, 10% off your first hire → https://www.weareproppel.com/the-advantage-proppel

Daniel Berk built a $78,000-a-year podcast working one hour a week. He learned the system as beehiiv's first sales hire, joining at 12 employees and under $1M in revenue. The company now reports $30M ARR.

This conversation covers the entire playbook: the offshore clipping engine, packaging your personal audience for sponsors, why guests outperform banter, the first-dollar principle, and the AI agents that clip his videos, draft his posts, and watch his bank accounts.

⏱️ CHAPTERS

00:00:00 Trailer

00:00:38 Meet Daniel Berk, beehiiv's First Sales Hire

00:02:06 From Mowing Lawns at 12 to $2.5M of Sneeze Guards

00:05:46 Rejected for Employee #1, Hired 7 Months Later

00:07:32 Building beehiiv's Sales Motion From Zero

00:10:20 A Reported $30M ARR and a Self-Given C-Suite Title

00:13:27 The Podcast That Started With One DM

00:14:15 The Clipping Engine: $78K on One Hour a Week

00:17:53 90% of Podcasts Die Before Episode 20

00:18:51 Turning Down $300K to Bet on Himself

00:21:24 MoneyWise, Local Newsletters and a Micro SaaS Bet

00:23:06 Every Single Person Starts at Zero

00:24:48 Commit to 10 Years or Don't Start

00:26:55 The Threshold Number: When More Money Stops Mattering

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