{"podcast":{"title":"The James Altucher Show","slug":"the-james-altucher-show-745332","podcast_index_feed_id":745332,"rss_url":"https://rss.art19.com/the-james-altucher-pod","website_url":"https://art19.com/shows/the-james-altucher-pod","image_url":"https://content.production.cdn.art19.com/images/34/a7/46/11/34a74611-c0da-4a44-a715-4ccb112a1d8f/c3513d8cddd4964783e1bce38371b4fb8c71e6c742d348637b90ce97ebe7b7b14d61a2b1851e37b7e4ff22c9a9b1b7515c002298a4f73bad9a8e34bef76bd848.jpeg","author":"James Altucher","episode_count":1427,"summary":"James Altucher interviews the world's leading peak performers in every area of life. But instead of giving you the typical success story, James digs deeper to find the \"Choose Yourself\" story - these are the moments we relate to... when someone rises up from personal struggle to reinvent themselves. The James Altucher Show brings you into the lives of peak-performers: billionaires, best-selling authors, rappers, astronauts, athletes, comedians, actors, and the world champions in every field, all who forged their own paths, found financial freedom and harnessed the power to create more meaningful and fulfilling lives.","last_synced_at":"2026-08-02T06:21:27.954438+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-james-altucher-show-745332"},"episode":{"title":"How to Start a Private Jet Charter Business With No Money | Kolin Jones of Amalfi Jets","slug":"how-to-start-a-private-jet-charter-business-with-no-money-kolin-jones-of-amalfi-jets","published_at":"2026-04-16T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-james-altucher-show-745332/how-to-start-a-private-jet-charter-business-with-no-money-kolin-jones-of-amalfi-jets","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-james-altucher-show-745332","url":"https://art19.com/shows/the-james-altucher-pod/episodes/6a3c3d57-6706-416f-96fb-b84c14b5575b","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/prfx.byspotify.com/e/claritaspod.com/measure/arttrk.com/p/PDPN1/pscrb.fm/rss/p/rss.art19.com/episodes/6a3c3d57-6706-416f-96fb-b84c14b5575b.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0","summary":"Notes from James: I wish I had been Kolin Jones when I was 18 years old. When Colin was 19, during COVID, he set up his own private jet brokerage out of a college dorm room. No investors. No jets. No connections. Just a GoDaddy website, an email address, and an obsessive willingness to send 2,500 cold emails a day. Amalfi Jets is on track to do $120 million in revenue this year. And he still doesn't own a single plane. I love how he thought about competition. He literally calculated: my competitor sends 400 emails a day, I'll send 2,500 — that means I'm doing six of his days in one of mine. Do that for a month and I'm four months ahead. That was the whole strategy at the start. Beautiful. And then TikTok changed everything. One video about a client who chartered two jets — one for his wife, one for his mistress — got a million views. 150,000 people hit their website. 15,000 flight requests in a single day. The entire trajectory of the company shifted because of a free video. He also talked about losing money on purpose on his first sale — selling a $24,500 flight for $20,000 to lock in loyalty. Pure Amazon thinking. I love that. And there's a story about a client stranded on the Galapagos Islands whose plane broke down. The client's assistant asked about bribing customs officials. Listen for how Kolin handled it. This is a great template if you're an entrepreneur, a creative, or anyone trying to build something from nothing. Please listen. Episode description: Kolin Jones was 19 years old, in his college dorm during COVID, when he noticed something: commercial flights were grounded, but private jets were surging. He got his pilot's license at Van Nuys Airport — the busiest private jet airport in the world — and launched Amalfi Jets with nothing more than a website, a c…","meta_description":"Notes from James: I wish I had been Kolin Jones when I was 18 years old. When Colin was 19, during COVID, he set up his own private jet brokerage out of a…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3394,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-james-altucher-show-745332/episodes/how-to-start-a-private-jet-charter-business-with-no-money-kolin-jones-of-amalfi-jets/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-james-altucher-show-745332/how-to-start-a-private-jet-charter-business-with-no-money-kolin-jones-of-amalfi-jets.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}