The Breaking Bad House (How Sheel Almost Bought TV History)
He built a full financial model. He lost to a streamer who turned the house into content.
When the Breaking Bad house in Albuquerque went up for sale, Sheel did what any good investor would do: he built a spreadsheet. He modeled the Airbnb revenue, the tourist foot traffic, the maintenance costs. He was ready to buy. But he lost the bid to a content creator who turned the house into a streaming set and monetized it in ways the spreadsheet never predicted. The lesson: sometimes the analytical approach loses to the creative one.
From Episode 457: The Simple Way to Create More Luck, Friends, and Opportunity
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