From the teenager writer to the media millionaire

Love him or hate him, Ben Shapiros bank account doesn't take care of your feelings. The fiery conservative commentator has built up a fortune of 50 million US dollars that speaks volumes about its business smarts. When the brain behind the Daily Wire (Ben), he transformed political opinions through podcasting, books and some rather clever investments into serious money.

Ben became the son of Hollywood parents in 1984 (his father composed music while his mother worked as a TV leadership) and was this child, which everyone probably found a bit intimidating. Great wise and not afraid to show it.

His first real payday came when he was only 17 years old – can you believe it? While most teenagers worked at minimum wages, Shapiro America's youngest nationally syndicated columnist. He literally earned money from his opinions before he was able to legally buy a lottery cards.

After completing the UCLA (graduate sum cum laude at only 20), he published his first book in which he attacked the liberal bias at universities. The book “Brainwashing: How the University of America is watching near America” ​​did not make him rich overnight, but it got his foot in the publishing door while he was still hiting the books at Harvard Law.

After completing the Harvard Law in 2007, Shapiro did what many Top -Law graduates do -a comfortable job in a prestigious company, Goodwin Procter. But corporate life was not his thing. After only 10 months he started his own legal advice.

With 25, this type juggled six different jobs and entered around 400,000 US dollars a year. Not too shabby for someone who couldn't even rent a car without paying additional fees! He wrote columns, published books and networking like crazy with conservative media people.

The actual career boost took place in 2012 when he came to Breitbart News as an editor-at-Large. Nobody knows exactly what they paid them, but their weight was worth their weight in gold. At around the same time, he began to make radio programs at Krla-AM 870 and added another current to his growing flow of income.

The moment Shapiro's financial game in 2015 really changed.

Today this business is an absolute cash cow -a profit of over 100 million US dollars a year. In your subscription service Dailywire+, more than a million subscribers pay up to 20 US dollars per month. And get this – in 2023 you earned $ 22 million, only from the sale of razors and bathroom products! Talk about diversification.

As a co -founder and main attraction of the company, Shapiro has a large part of the business. His podcast “The Ben Shapiro Show” moves in around 25 million monthly listeners and was picked up by over 200 radio stations. Each new platform means more advertising collar and license fees that flow into its accounts.

If you look at the Shapiro career, a few patterns stand out:

1. He found his lane early: While most of us still found life, Shapiro already knew that his strengths and political comments were in the political comments, and he doubled.

2. He never relies on just one salary check: from day one, he had several income streams – books, columns, speak to gigs, podcasts, business owners – the guy does not put all of his eggs in a basket.

3. He chooses the right partners: his cooperation with bores in the Daily Wire lets her build something much bigger than both could have done.

4. He has the platform: Instead of being a talent for the media company of another, he built his own and kept more of the profits.

5. He stays on the brand: I love him or loathe him, he was consistently the same pronounced conservative voice and builds up a loyal audience that follows him everywhere.

Nowadays, the financial interests of Shapiro go far beyond the media. It is strongly invested in shares, including large technology companies such as Meta, Visa and American Express. After he said goodbye to California in 2020, he collected luxury properties in Nashville.

In 2021, Spotify presented him with a sweet 12 million dollar deal to produce podcasts for three years. When he speaks at events, he calculates up to 20,000 US dollars per pop. His YouTube channel is another money printer and earns between 268,000 and 4.3 million US dollars only from advertisements.

The Daily Wire not only makes Shapiro rich, but has created jobs for hundreds of people and platforms for other conservative voices. They have expanded to entertainment and put over 100 million US dollars in a film studio and Bentkey, whose response to Disney to child content.

Whatever you think of his policy, you have to admit – the guy knows how to build a business empire. Shapiro shows that in today's digital world it can be very, very profitable that it can be very, very profitable in today's digital world to write a teenager as a teenager and to operate an over 100 dollar media company.