Alex Daniels

Co-founder/operator of Haven Lifestyles, a New York-based real-estate media and advertising company that operates local luxury real-estate publications across the U.S. and Canada. He has publicly discussed scaling Haven to roughly $8–10 million in annual revenue and using AI automation to handle inbound sales email volume.

Overlooked Distribution Channels Power Three Eight-Figure Businesses

Sam Parr and Shaan Puri use three founder interviews to make a case that overlooked distribution channels can support large, durable businesses. The examples are Haven Lifestyles, a $10 million real-estate advertising company built on mailed magazines; Team Outsider, a roughly $20 million campground operator built through succession deals with family owners; and Autopilot, a $30 million gross marketplace business that lets retail investors follow politicians, hedge funds and vetted stock pickers from their own brokerage accounts. The argument is that the edge in each company came less from novelty than from treating neglected channels — postal routes, campground relationships and public financial filings — as the core of the business.

My First MillionJun 30, 202622 min read