I Asked Yacht Owners How They Got Rich
Published on: November 26 2022 by Jordan Welch
I Asked Yacht Owners How They Got Rich
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I Asked Yacht Owners How They Got Rich
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| 00:00:00 | 00:00:04 | today we're here in miami with some of |
| 00:00:01 | 00:00:06 | the largest yachts in the entire world |
| 00:00:04 | 00:00:08 | my goal is to find the owners and figure |
| 00:00:06 | 00:00:11 | out how they did it because to be honest |
| 00:00:08 | 00:00:12 | i'm trying to get one of these myself |
| 00:00:11 | 00:00:14 | it's pretty hard to get through these |
| 00:00:12 | 00:00:17 | gates but we're going to try our best |
| 00:00:14 | 00:00:17 | and see what we can do |
| 00:00:19 | 00:00:23 | excuse me sir |
| 00:00:20 | 00:00:25 | are you on this boat no oh you don't |
| 00:00:23 | 00:00:27 | excuse me sir do you own one of these |
| 00:00:25 | 00:00:29 | boats around here no i'm looking for a |
| 00:00:27 | 00:00:32 | job like a deckhand bro is jacked i know |
| 00:00:29 | 00:00:34 | he got that job oh got you well good |
| 00:00:32 | 00:00:35 | luck to you man thank you for sure so i |
| 00:00:34 | 00:00:36 | just saw this guy and i think he owns |
| 00:00:35 | 00:00:39 | this boat right here let's see if i can |
| 00:00:36 | 00:00:39 | get his attention |
| 00:00:40 | 00:00:43 | can we |
| 00:00:41 | 00:00:45 | i wanted to ask how were you able to get |
| 00:00:43 | 00:00:47 | a boat like this what did you do for a |
| 00:00:45 | 00:00:49 | living to get this boat huh |
| 00:00:47 | 00:00:50 | this guy right here is the owner right |
| 00:00:49 | 00:00:52 | there you're the owner of this boat yes |
| 00:00:50 | 00:00:54 | sir today we're asking yacht owners how |
| 00:00:52 | 00:00:55 | they were able to get to this level so |
| 00:00:54 | 00:00:57 | i'm just curious what did you do to be |
| 00:00:55 | 00:00:59 | able to afford a beautiful boat like |
| 00:00:57 | 00:01:01 | this faith in god in the american dream |
| 00:00:59 | 00:01:03 | the roofing industry roofing services |
| 00:01:01 | 00:01:05 | free roof inspections and you know just |
| 00:01:03 | 00:01:06 | been doing them ever since i also |
| 00:01:05 | 00:01:08 | managed boy bands |
| 00:01:06 | 00:01:10 | and i have a professional boxing fighter |
| 00:01:08 | 00:01:11 | if you were going back to day one |
| 00:01:10 | 00:01:13 | starting at roofing company what would |
| 00:01:11 | 00:01:14 | you tell yourself don't take things so |
| 00:01:13 | 00:01:16 | personal |
| 00:01:14 | 00:01:17 | you know don't live with any regret |
| 00:01:16 | 00:01:19 | do you |
| 00:01:17 | 00:01:20 | you know and don't ask for no apologies |
| 00:01:19 | 00:01:22 | and uh just you know keep your head to |
| 00:01:20 | 00:01:24 | the grind and thank god and you know |
| 00:01:22 | 00:01:26 | pray love your mom love your family |
| 00:01:24 | 00:01:28 | just love it's all about love |
| 00:01:26 | 00:01:30 | what love got to do with it oh yeah |
| 00:01:28 | 00:01:33 | everything man thank you very much man |
| 00:01:30 | 00:01:35 | we really appreciate you too see ya |
| 00:01:33 | 00:01:36 | i'm not gonna lie that gave me the boost |
| 00:01:35 | 00:01:38 | of confidence that i needed shout out to |
| 00:01:36 | 00:01:40 | my boy seems like a really great guy he |
| 00:01:38 | 00:01:41 | had a really nice boat hopefully we |
| 00:01:40 | 00:01:42 | could find some more people like him |
| 00:01:41 | 00:01:44 | because he was cool as hell let's get it |
| 00:01:42 | 00:01:46 | i was wondering do you actually own this |
| 00:01:44 | 00:01:48 | yacht or are you working here i am |
| 00:01:46 | 00:01:50 | working the boat got you yeah and my |
| 00:01:48 | 00:01:54 | boss is not here oh okay i love your |
| 00:01:50 | 00:01:56 | boat here are you the owner of it |
| 00:01:54 | 00:01:58 | oh awesome |
| 00:01:56 | 00:02:00 | yeah this place is dead i mean there's |
| 00:01:58 | 00:02:01 | like none of the owners here everybody |
| 00:02:00 | 00:02:03 | here is just cleaning the boats taking |
| 00:02:01 | 00:02:05 | care of them it's really hard to get |
| 00:02:03 | 00:02:08 | past some of these gates i think we're |
| 00:02:05 | 00:02:10 | gonna go somewhere else |
| 00:02:08 | 00:02:13 | okay so we're literally pulling up to |
| 00:02:10 | 00:02:14 | the most expensive marina in all of |
| 00:02:13 | 00:02:16 | miami |
| 00:02:14 | 00:02:18 | there's over 50 million dollars of boats |
| 00:02:16 | 00:02:20 | parked up here we're gonna walk right in |
| 00:02:18 | 00:02:21 | that's where we're supposed to be |
| 00:02:20 | 00:02:23 | yeah we're good we're just gonna go |
| 00:02:21 | 00:02:24 | right through here oh whole security |
| 00:02:23 | 00:02:27 | team all right we're going for it |
| 00:02:24 | 00:02:28 | anyways hey how's it going man |
| 00:02:27 | 00:02:30 | yeah so |
| 00:02:28 | 00:02:32 | right now i'm trying to do a youtube |
| 00:02:30 | 00:02:34 | video i wanted to come try this one |
| 00:02:32 | 00:02:35 | because this is the nicest |
| 00:02:34 | 00:02:36 | problem |
| 00:02:35 | 00:02:39 | private |
| 00:02:36 | 00:02:41 | well thank you guys anyways |
| 00:02:39 | 00:02:43 | i i don't really know what to do bro |
| 00:02:41 | 00:02:45 | like we went to the best marina it's |
| 00:02:43 | 00:02:47 | like we got some interviews but like i |
| 00:02:45 | 00:02:48 | feel you i might i think i could call my |
| 00:02:47 | 00:02:50 | friend matthias he works in a business |
| 00:02:48 | 00:02:52 | called like 305 yachts and they do |
| 00:02:50 | 00:02:53 | charters with different yacht owners and |
| 00:02:52 | 00:02:55 | stuff so i could give him a call and see |
| 00:02:53 | 00:02:58 | if he knows any owners that we could |
| 00:02:55 | 00:03:00 | tok to let's call matias |
| 00:02:58 | 00:03:02 | yo what's good bro bro chilling right |
| 00:03:00 | 00:03:04 | now we're having some trouble and we're |
| 00:03:02 | 00:03:06 | filming a youtube video asking yacht |
| 00:03:04 | 00:03:08 | owners what they do for a living so i |
| 00:03:06 | 00:03:10 | figured i'd hit you up and see if you |
| 00:03:08 | 00:03:12 | got any connects to get people |
| 00:03:10 | 00:03:14 | that we could tok to you got the right |
| 00:03:12 | 00:03:18 | guy yeah |
| 00:03:14 | 00:03:21 | yes sir meet us over at the beach marina |
| 00:03:23 | 00:03:26 | thank you for helping us so guys this |
| 00:03:24 | 00:03:27 | right here this matthias tell them a |
| 00:03:26 | 00:03:29 | little bit about this business that you |
| 00:03:27 | 00:03:30 | built bro i think it's really dope so me |
| 00:03:29 | 00:03:32 | and my business partner he's actually on |
| 00:03:30 | 00:03:34 | his way over here when i was young we |
| 00:03:32 | 00:03:36 | used to work on these yachts and we kind |
| 00:03:34 | 00:03:38 | of saw these people walking in and out |
| 00:03:36 | 00:03:39 | just like putting the clients on board |
| 00:03:38 | 00:03:41 | and leaving with hello bread we started |
| 00:03:39 | 00:03:43 | putting this together and basically |
| 00:03:41 | 00:03:45 | what we do is we find the clientele and |
| 00:03:43 | 00:03:47 | give them to the boat so you guys have a |
| 00:03:45 | 00:03:49 | huge lineup of all yachts like this but |
| 00:03:47 | 00:03:50 | you actually don't own any of the yachts |
| 00:03:49 | 00:03:52 | yeah we don't own any of the odds we |
| 00:03:50 | 00:03:54 | have no liability of owning any of the |
| 00:03:52 | 00:03:56 | odds we literally just put two and two |
| 00:03:54 | 00:03:58 | together we make our commission and then |
| 00:03:56 | 00:04:01 | just head out there yes |
| 00:03:58 | 00:04:02 | all right |
| 00:04:01 | 00:04:04 | that's way easier than what we've been |
| 00:04:02 | 00:04:07 | having to do today |
| 00:04:04 | 00:04:07 | how's it going |
| 00:04:08 | 00:04:12 | so eric you know what do you do how'd |
| 00:04:10 | 00:04:13 | you get a boat like this i was in the |
| 00:04:12 | 00:04:15 | entertainment business for many years |
| 00:04:13 | 00:04:16 | and i own nightclubs and restaurants |
| 00:04:15 | 00:04:18 | down in miami beach in atlanta a lot of |
| 00:04:16 | 00:04:20 | the clients that would come through just |
| 00:04:18 | 00:04:21 | to come to miami and kind of look for |
| 00:04:20 | 00:04:23 | different experiences what to do hey |
| 00:04:21 | 00:04:24 | let's take a yacht out right so we |
| 00:04:23 | 00:04:26 | started buying our own yachts how much |
| 00:04:24 | 00:04:28 | did this boat run you if you don't mind |
| 00:04:26 | 00:04:30 | me asking when you buy this one new it's |
| 00:04:28 | 00:04:32 | about 3.2 million wow do you make money |
| 00:04:30 | 00:04:33 | off this hour does it cost you money to |
| 00:04:32 | 00:04:35 | own it like for our business we do okay |
| 00:04:33 | 00:04:36 | with it yeah so if you were just getting |
| 00:04:35 | 00:04:38 | started back in your entertainment days |
| 00:04:36 | 00:04:41 | and your entrepreneur days what would |
| 00:04:38 | 00:04:43 | you tell yourself get more sleep |
| 00:04:41 | 00:04:45 | thanks man appreciate it buddy really |
| 00:04:43 | 00:04:46 | almost broke my hand with that who are |
| 00:04:45 | 00:04:48 | some of the people that you guys have |
| 00:04:46 | 00:04:51 | actually taken out a lot with the full |
| 00:04:48 | 00:04:54 | send guys the nut guys yeah i'm taking |
| 00:04:51 | 00:04:55 | out kashi we've taken out the ponds and |
| 00:04:54 | 00:04:57 | how was it actually starting this |
| 00:04:55 | 00:04:59 | business so we pretty much started when |
| 00:04:57 | 00:05:00 | we were like 16 or 15. he started |
| 00:04:59 | 00:05:02 | working on like a party boat like a |
| 00:05:00 | 00:05:04 | catamaran and then from that boat we |
| 00:05:02 | 00:05:05 | just met a lot of new owners you know |
| 00:05:04 | 00:05:07 | and we kind of got very lucky with |
| 00:05:05 | 00:05:09 | social media like tiktok we posted |
| 00:05:07 | 00:05:11 | one video once like our first ever tik |
| 00:05:09 | 00:05:13 | tok i think went viral and that brought |
| 00:05:11 | 00:05:15 | us a lot of bookings do you think that |
| 00:05:13 | 00:05:17 | this is like a strategy or like a |
| 00:05:15 | 00:05:19 | business model that other people could |
| 00:05:17 | 00:05:21 | follow 100 if you find something that |
| 00:05:19 | 00:05:22 | you want to like middleman you just can |
| 00:05:21 | 00:05:24 | market it more on social media you know |
| 00:05:22 | 00:05:25 | we're just the end of their middleman |
| 00:05:24 | 00:05:27 | platform yeah connects owners with |
| 00:05:25 | 00:05:29 | clients well hey we got a couple more |
| 00:05:27 | 00:05:30 | interviews to get to so let's do it |
| 00:05:29 | 00:05:32 | jordan nice to meet you frank come |
| 00:05:30 | 00:05:35 | aboard there's a skeet shooting machine |
| 00:05:32 | 00:05:37 | up top okay yeah let's check that out |
| 00:05:35 | 00:05:40 | ocean skeet shooting so no one else does |
| 00:05:37 | 00:05:40 | that i've never heard of it before |
| 00:05:46 | 00:05:49 | so you you had a big part in the |
| 00:05:47 | 00:05:51 | engineering of this whole thing |
| 00:05:49 | 00:05:52 | absolutely yeah that's what i did so |
| 00:05:51 | 00:05:54 | that's your background before having |
| 00:05:52 | 00:05:57 | this boat was having an engineer |
| 00:05:54 | 00:05:58 | business contractor what was your custom |
| 00:05:57 | 00:06:00 | fabrication build everything and |
| 00:05:58 | 00:06:02 | anything you possibly imagined that's |
| 00:06:00 | 00:06:04 | what my other company is known for so |
| 00:06:02 | 00:06:05 | this probably wasn't cheap to get set up |
| 00:06:04 | 00:06:07 | i mean between buying the boat building |
| 00:06:05 | 00:06:08 | that and everything else |
| 00:06:07 | 00:06:11 | this is this is you know you're toking |
| 00:06:08 | 00:06:13 | a 7 million investment wow if you were |
| 00:06:11 | 00:06:14 | starting over from the beginning man is |
| 00:06:13 | 00:06:16 | there one piece that you could give to |
| 00:06:14 | 00:06:18 | yourself of advice if you had to go back |
| 00:06:16 | 00:06:21 | to the beginning yeah the key i always |
| 00:06:18 | 00:06:24 | say this the key to entrepreneurship is |
| 00:06:21 | 00:06:26 | basically application hard work um it's |
| 00:06:24 | 00:06:28 | just you can't look back you have to |
| 00:06:26 | 00:06:30 | keep your fears behind you and always |
| 00:06:28 | 00:06:31 | look in front of you no matter what i'm |
| 00:06:30 | 00:06:33 | going to make this work no matter what |
| 00:06:31 | 00:06:36 | you can't you can't have fear thanks |
| 00:06:33 | 00:06:36 | again man we appreciate it |
| 00:06:36 | 00:06:39 | he said no he said no because they have |
| 00:06:38 | 00:06:40 | a charter going out right now fair |
| 00:06:39 | 00:06:42 | enough |
| 00:06:40 | 00:06:44 | to finish the day we needed something |
| 00:06:42 | 00:06:46 | crazy so they spent the next two hours |
| 00:06:44 | 00:06:48 | on the phone trying to set one up and |
| 00:06:46 | 00:06:51 | then this happened what happened we got |
| 00:06:48 | 00:06:53 | the interview he just built my hand |
| 00:06:51 | 00:06:55 | the biggest in my angle |
| 00:06:53 | 00:06:56 | like it's called the seafarer it says |
| 00:06:55 | 00:06:59 | four story tall |
| 00:06:56 | 00:07:02 | fits 600 guests it's like |
| 00:06:59 | 00:07:03 | top of the park when are we doing that |
| 00:07:02 | 00:07:04 | we gotta go |
| 00:07:03 | 00:07:06 | around all right let's get it let's get |
| 00:07:04 | 00:07:08 | it come on it's crazy though because |
| 00:07:06 | 00:07:10 | like we literally started our day |
| 00:07:08 | 00:07:11 | filming here we kind of were joking |
| 00:07:10 | 00:07:16 | about if we could get into this place or |
| 00:07:11 | 00:07:16 | not and we did it that's it we're in man |
| 00:07:21 | 00:07:24 | jordan nice to meet you man thanks for |
| 00:07:23 | 00:07:26 | having us |
| 00:07:24 | 00:07:28 | elevator on the boat of course yep |
| 00:07:26 | 00:07:29 | there's uh two passenger elevators one |
| 00:07:28 | 00:07:30 | crew elevator you're a part of the |
| 00:07:29 | 00:07:33 | family in this boat right the captain |
| 00:07:30 | 00:07:35 | for three years got you yeah and how |
| 00:07:33 | 00:07:38 | long has this boat been around miami uh |
| 00:07:35 | 00:07:41 | this boat has been here uh almost 10 |
| 00:07:38 | 00:07:44 | years now she is uh the largest in miami |
| 00:07:41 | 00:07:45 | second largest passenger best elective |
| 00:07:44 | 00:07:47 | in the united states what do you guys |
| 00:07:45 | 00:07:49 | typically use this for is it for parties |
| 00:07:47 | 00:07:52 | is it more for like business corporate |
| 00:07:49 | 00:07:55 | stuff it can be anything we had a grant |
| 00:07:52 | 00:07:57 | cardone last night uh yeah but tedx guy |
| 00:07:55 | 00:08:00 | so this is where most of the events and |
| 00:07:57 | 00:08:01 | socializing and everything goes down |
| 00:08:00 | 00:08:03 | this is one of the best views of the |
| 00:08:01 | 00:08:05 | city i think i've ever seen one of my |
| 00:08:03 | 00:08:08 | favorite uh moments uh is when we had a |
| 00:08:05 | 00:08:10 | nas out here performing wow and uh we're |
| 00:08:08 | 00:08:12 | going through the bridge and he takes |
| 00:08:10 | 00:08:14 | him in he pulls up the bridge he says |
| 00:08:12 | 00:08:15 | cue bridge |
| 00:08:14 | 00:08:17 | we do conscious like that all the time |
| 00:08:15 | 00:08:19 | what would you say this boat is worth |
| 00:08:17 | 00:08:20 | right now like maybe you can't say it |
| 00:08:19 | 00:08:23 | but if you could like wha what's the |
| 00:08:20 | 00:08:25 | value of this seafair it's uh |
| 00:08:23 | 00:08:27 | tens of millions i got you but your |
| 00:08:25 | 00:08:30 | family has no plan selling you guys are |
| 00:08:27 | 00:08:31 | going to keep this forever so what was |
| 00:08:30 | 00:08:32 | your family actually doing to be able to |
| 00:08:31 | 00:08:34 | get this boat because obviously it |
| 00:08:32 | 00:08:36 | wasn't cheap to purchase it like did |
| 00:08:34 | 00:08:37 | y'all start in the boating industry or |
| 00:08:36 | 00:08:40 | started in the uh |
| 00:08:37 | 00:08:43 | art business the antique business uh my |
| 00:08:40 | 00:08:44 | parents founded our miami which was the |
| 00:08:43 | 00:08:46 | thing before our basel yeah i can get |
| 00:08:44 | 00:08:49 | used to this seat right here man this is |
| 00:08:46 | 00:08:49 | not too bad |
| 00:08:49 | 00:08:51 | no |
| 00:08:50 | 00:08:53 | you should have brought your own man |
| 00:08:51 | 00:08:55 | it's fair enough he said no i tried it |
| 00:08:53 | 00:08:56 | anyways listen guys we literally started |
| 00:08:55 | 00:08:58 | today on the street we ended up on the |
| 00:08:56 | 00:09:01 | biggest boat in all of miami shout out |
| 00:08:58 | 00:09:02 | to aaron shout out to the seafair i |
| 00:09:01 | 00:09:05 | don't know how we keep doing this stuff |
| 00:09:02 | 00:09:08 | but subscribe we got more on the way |
| 00:09:15 | 00:09:18 | let me try to |
