Patrick Bet-David

He began his first company called, PHP Agency Inc., in 2009.[10][14] PHP being an acronym for People Helping People.[14] The agency serves to provide life insurance and annuity services to customers in the United States.[15] In August 2017, PHP secured $10 million in expansion financing through Ambina Partners and Atalaya Capital Management, with additional support from Brener International Group and former boxer Oscar De La Hoya.[16] In 2019, he had Jordan Peterson, Kobe Bryant and former US president George W. Bush as keynote speakers at the PHP annual conference.[17]

In December 2020, he sold a 1979-80 O-Pee-Chee Wayne Gretzky rookie card graded Gem Mint 10 by PSA, making it the first hockey card to surpass one million dollars in value.[18][19][20]

In 2022, Patrick Bet-David and PHP Agency partnered with Integrity Marketing Group.[21] The partnership involved Integrity's acquisition of PHP Agency, with the aim to use Integrity's resources and technology to help more Americans achieve financial security. Patrick Bet-David would become a Managing Partner at Integrity as part of this agreement.[22]

In 2023, he became a part owner of the New York Yankees.[3][23]

He founded and hosts the Youtube channel, Valuetainment, since 2012. The channel has 5 million subscribers and over 850 million views.[5] He additionally founded the channel PBD Podcast, which has 1.4 million subscribers and was founded in 2020.[6] Both his channels feature interviews with successful people from a variety of industries, including business, sports, entertainment, and politics and his guests often share their personal stories, insights, and advice. Bet-David hosted Kobe Bryant's last interview before the basketball player's demise.[24][25] It was in this interview that Bryant hinted that Shaquille O'Neal would be the greatest basketball player of all time if he had his work ethic in the Shaq–Kobe feud.[26][27] He has also interviewed George W. Bush, Jordan Peterson, Kevin Hart, Ray Dalio, Michael Franzese, Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, John McAfee and Andrew Tate on his channel.[14][28] He has also interviewed MMA fighters Georges St-Pierre, Khabib Nurmagomedov and Dustin Poirier.[29] And body building legends Ronnie Coleman and Phil Heath.[30]

He has appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience.[31] He offered former presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump five million dollars for a peace talk interview.[32]

Bet-David authored the Wall Street Journal bestseller, Your Next Five Moves: Master The Art of Business Strategy.[33][34] It was a book that focused on strategic decision-making for success in both business and life, using deliberate planning and making calculated choices to achieve one's goals.[35]

He advocates for people to drop out of college, build a business and network, and then returning back to the university with an advantage.[36] In 2017, he wrote the book Drop Out and Get Schooled: The Case for Thinking Twice about College.[37] The book was co-authored by Thomas N. Ellsworth.[38]

Others include The Life of an Entrepreneur in 90 Pages, which describes his entrepreneurial journey experience and Doing The Impossible: The 25 Laws for Doing The Impossible, which is a motivational book.[14]