Foster Friess

As so many of these rags to riches stories always claim that they started.

At the time of Turning Point USA's founding, Charlie Kirk got a ten thousand dollar donation, at least from a GOP mega donor called Foster Friess, and then things took off from there.

Eventually, he started receiving donations from other mega- mega donors as well, from more billionaires.

So many of them that even if we had access to a complete list of Turning Point USA donors over the years, we would likely be here all night if we had to name each and every one of them.

Do you have experience with any of these donors personally?

No, they kept the donors away from us at Turning Point like they were really untouchable, but from what the chatter and, and the inside scoop of people texting in our group chats, our private chats, people talking to me about this from the inside, uh, the, the donors, I would look more into where the money's coming from, who, who they are.

I mean, Foster Friess was on the, you know, Epstein files with his, his wife, Lynette, and their son is now running for, I believe, a Senate seat somewhere.

Yeah, we just talked about his connections to JD Vance.

And you, uh, you knew Charlie.

You met Charlie in, uh, Foster Friess, and that's actually...

You were working on Wall Street when you came up with this idea of The Business Bible.

So tell us about the whole origin story here.

[laughs] Hey, good morning, Andrew, great to be here.

Yeah, I met Charlie when he was chasing down Foster Friess in a white cowboy hat at a conference in Dallas.

Yeah.

And I was in the middle, middle of a conversation with Foster about hedge funds and the market and, and there came Charlie in his, uh, you know, I don't know, it was a Brooks Brother, old Brooks Brothers suit, ratted, and he was full speed ahead.