Note No. 001 · Episode 1
Coming soon
The first guest, the first dollar and the first conversation are on their way. When it’s out, it lands here first.
A podcast · New York City
Everyone remembers the millions. We ask about the first dollar.
One guest, in person, every episode. They tell us how they earned their very first dollar, and what happened next.
My first dollar came from …
What it is
One guest. One question. The very first dollar.
Every episode, one guest sits down with Sanjay in New York and tells the story of the first dollar they ever earned. Not the first million. Not the exit. The dollar.
Who paid them, what for, what they did with it. Then we follow the thread to see what happened next.
- IIn person in New York City
- IIOne guest per episode
- IIIOne question we keep coming back to
How an episode works
Five parts. Same shape every time.
Cold open
A taste of the story to come, before the hellos.
The first dollar
Who paid, for what, and how it felt to hold it.
The next ten
What happened next: the next ten dollars and the choices that came with them.
Today
Where the guest is now, and what that first dollar still has to do with it.
The closer
Every guest gets the same one:
“What’s the first dollar you’re chasing right now?”
Meet the host
Sanjay Divakar
Sanjay is 15. He’s a founder, a TEDx speaker and an author, and he wants to know about the part of every origin story that usually gets skipped: the very first dollar.
He asks the questions he’d want answered if he were sitting in the guest’s chair, and he listens to the answer.
Episodes
Nothing here yet. That’s the point.
Be a guest
Remember your first dollar? Come tell us.
You don’t need a famous name or a big exit. You need a real story about the first money you ever earned, and a way to get to New York City.
Tell us the short version below.
Listen & subscribe
Not on the air yet. Almost.
Once Episode 1 is out, you’ll find the show wherever you listen.
- Apple Podcasts coming soon
- Spotify coming soon
- YouTube coming soon