# He Dropped Out in 8th Grade and Built a Viral Street Interview Empire | Ep. 432 with Shanes Ginsberg CEO of Street Poller

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Podcast: [Founder's Story](https://stenobird.com/podcast/founder-s-story-648906)
Published: 2026-08-13T16:15:04+00:00
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## Resource

Daniel Robbins sits down with Shane Ginsberg, founder and CEO of Street Poller Media, to unpack how a young founder who dropped out of school after eighth grade turned street interviews into a scalable media and advertising business. Shane shares how growing up around business conferences shaped the way he saw education, why he believes real human reactions matter more than ever in an AI saturated content world, and how one early brand video that generated $25,000 in sales helped him realize street polling could become a company. The conversation also explores authenticity, clipping, attention, rejection, going all in, proving people wrong, and what it takes to build at a high level by age 21.

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