Dan, 25At a glance
Who
Dan. The Real World’s caption gives the age as 25 and shows a US flag; Dan doesn’t state an age, and speaks of “working in corporate America” (0:27).
Starting point
“My previous 9 to 5, my annual income was $70,000 a year” (0:21). “I went to uni. I got a uni degree and then took a nine to five job” (2:19).
How Dan found it
“when I started to hear about Hustlers University, which was then going to The Real World, I thought this is it” (2:41).
Campus
Amazon FBA, in the caption and in Dan’s words: “The Sunday following, I had opened up the Amazon FBA campus” (1:25). Dan credits two captains there, “Michael and George” (0:05).
Timeline
Access “on November 23rd” (1:18); the term learned “on November 27th”; first sale “on December 5th” (1:52). Dan says “this year in 2023” (0:38), so the dates are presumably late 2022. It was on The Real World’s home page by 8 June 2023.
Result (video)
A first sale of $22 (1:43). Then: “In the first month inside The Real World, my monthly income was double that of my previous 9 to 5” (0:27), with no exact figure: “I don’t want to disclose exact figures” (0:16).
Result (caption)
The Real World’s caption: “New revenue: $10k+/month”, and that Dan “quit” the 9 to 5 and “earned $50,000 within 4 months of joining”, with the freedom “to train for Ironman Triathlons and 100 mile Ultramarathons”.
$70,000 a year is about $5,800 a month, so “double” would be about $11,700 in the first month. Asked to confirm, Dan put it as making “more than” the old monthly pay “within my first month” (0:55). Dan doesn’t say whether that is revenue or profit. The caption’s $50,000 in four months, quitting the job and the triathlons aren’t in the video; Dan speaks one month in. The figures are Dan’s and The Real World’s own; this site hasn’t seen the accounts.
What Dan said
7 lines from the interview, copied exactly, each with what it means in plain English. The times are where they fall in the video.
“I got access on November 23rd, just before Thanksgiving”
What it means: Day one, by Dan’s account.
“I didn’t know what the word Amazon FBA meant at all, so it was a completely brand new word for me that I learned on November 27th”
What it means: Dan came in with no Amazon experience, by Dan’s own account.
“on December 5th I had made my first sale.”
What it means: Twelve days after access, eight after learning the term. The sale was for $22.
“My previous 9 to 5, my annual income was $70,000 a year.”
What it means: The benchmark Dan uses: about $5,800 a month.
“Well, I don’t want to disclose exact figures.”
What it means: So the result below is a comparison, not a number.
“my previous annual income on a monthly basis, I was able to make more than that within my first month of The Real World.”
What it means: Dan’s own clarification: more than the old monthly salary in the first month. Not said: revenue or profit.
“Michael and George have been a huge influence on me and on my success.”
What it means: Dan credits two captains in the campus by name.
What Dan did, step by step
Dan had a 9 to 5
“$70,000 a year” in corporate America: “having someone else tell you what to do 24/7” (2:28).
In the video at 0:21
Dan heard about Hustlers University
“which was then going to The Real World, I thought this is it. This is my opportunity.”
In the video at 2:41
Dan got access
“on November 23rd, just before Thanksgiving”; “The Sunday following, I had opened up the Amazon FBA campus, started watching the videos, getting to know the professors and the captains.”
In the video at 1:18
Dan put the hours in
“hammering YouTube videos, staying behind the keyboard, just hours of relentless work”.
In the video at 1:33
Dan made a first sale
“I made my first sale of $22”, “on December 5th” (1:57).
In the video at 1:43
Dan used the community
“When you have a question, you just fire it off”; “asking questions to verified experts in your field” (3:33).
In the video at 4:25
Full transcript
Read the full interview transcript (5 minutes)
Transcribed on 26 October 2026 from the interview audio with Whisper speech recognition (run locally), then checked against a second full pass and a re-run of every part with two models: punctuation fixed, nothing added; “[unclear]” marks words the passes don’t agree on. Dan says “Hustler’s University” for Hustlers University, The Real World’s earlier name, written as Hustlers University here. “Since joining on December 5th” (0:12) is as spoken; Dan gives 23 November as the access date (1:18). Speaker labels are ours. The interviewer is from The Real World. The $49 mentioned was the price at the time; today it is $99 a month on the official checkout.
0:00 Dan: Since the start of my time in The Real World, just before December 5th, Michael and George have been a huge influence on me and on my success. They're two great captains inside the Amazon FBA campus since joining on December 5th. Well, I don't want to disclose exact figures. The financial successes have been great. My previous 9 to 5, my annual income was $70,000 a year, working in corporate America. In the first month inside The Real World, my monthly income was double that of my previous 9 to 5, and on track to do well over six figures this year in 2023. So things have been going absolutely great. It's just my first month as well.
0:49 Interviewer: Congratulations. So in one month, all of that is in one month, correct?
0:54 Dan: Correct. So my previous annual income on a monthly basis, I was able to make more than that within my first month of The Real World.
1:03 Interviewer: Awesome. And to clarify, this is through Amazon FBA, correct?
1:09 Dan: Yes, it is.
1:10 Interviewer: And how did you get into Amazon FBA in this case, out of all the other campuses you could have chosen?
1:18 Dan: Well, when I joined The Real World, I got access on November 23rd, just before Thanksgiving, a time when you're spending around family. The Sunday following, I had opened up the Amazon FBA campus, started watching the videos, getting to know the professors and the captains. And it wasn't but a few days later, after just hammering YouTube videos, staying behind the keyboard, just hours of relentless work, really. What it was, was I made my first sale of $22, and the rest was history after that. I didn't know what the word Amazon FBA meant at all, so it was a completely brand new word for me that I learned on November 27th, and then on December 5th I had made my first sale. That's how quickly things can go if you're driven and you're relentless at your work and you're inside The Real World and you're working hard and communicating and connecting with others.
2:09 Dan: I thought that things were lining up appropriately, and it was just a point of, you know, where can I go to learn from someone in the most efficient way possible, right? I don't know how to make money. I went to uni. I got a uni degree and then took a nine to five job. So you're making a few thousand dollars a month working for someone else, having someone else tell you what to do 24/7, and you can't, you know, do what you want. You're on a fixed income. So I thought, how can I start to make income strictly off of my own back? I've always worked for someone else to make money.
2:41 Dan: So when I started to hear about Hustlers University, which was then going to The Real World, I thought this is it. This is my opportunity. And for me, it's never been exactly about us making a certain dollar amount. It's just that freedom to be able to do what you want, right? Eat where you want, go where you want, drive what you want, live where you want. And The Real World to me was a no-brainer on the place to go to be able to obtain that financial freedom, and without a doubt, get your start.
3:12 Dan: So what The Real World is really powerful for is it takes people that are completely flat broke, or someone like me who's making a nine to five income, or someone in the middle, and it helps you start to make money on your own, which is really the big hump that most people have to get over, because once you can start to make that money on your own, scaling it is just a matter of how much you want it. And you're asking questions to verified experts in your field that are available at your fingertips, which is just a priceless tool that we have inside The Real World.
3:43 Dan: This community of over 200,000 plus members, if I've seen the latest stat correctly, is all inside The Real World at the tip of your fingers. So everyone inside of your industry that you may be studying or working towards, or multiple industries that you may be studying and working in, whether it is a complete beginner like myself one month ago, or verified millionaires inside that field, they are inside that community. And we're all building each other up, and it's all positivity, and it's really, really a great place where negativity and skepticism really isn't tolerated. And it's just a bunch of men and women just all joining together and all wanting to succeed. Everyone's on a one-track mind in there.
4:25 Dan: So the community has really done a lot for me. When you have a question, you just fire it off and someone's inside there asking. It's a global community as well, so 24 hours a day, The Real World is active, active in learning and active in success. And the community has been absolutely awesome, something I didn't expect going in. So it was really great to experience.
4:47 Interviewer: Is there any other advice you'd give to people just starting out? Or would you say you've covered most of it already?
4:53 Dan: Get inside The Real World and have a great time. You're going to make your $49 back inside the first month. It's been a really, really life-changing experience for me thus far.
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What The Real World offers today
Dan was in the campus The Real World’s caption calls Amazon FBA, and Dan calls it “the Amazon FBA campus”. There is no campus by that name today: the “My Campuses” list in the owner’s account on 26 October 2026, after adding the campuses on offer, has twelve, and none is called Amazon FBA. The official courses page describes the Ecommerce campus as “Dropshipping, private label, Amazon FBA.”, but the Ecommerce courses on show in the app are about dropshipping and Shopify, and The Real World hasn’t said what became of the Amazon FBA campus. So this page shows Ecommerce as the nearest campus today, not as Dan’s.
How you get started
Join and add campuses
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Choose where to start
The official courses page groups Ecommerce with “a small budget and an interest in products”, and its Ecommerce description includes “Amazon FBA”. Dan opened the campus “the Sunday following” access (1:25).
Watch the lessons, then act
Dan: “started watching the videos, getting to know the professors and the captains” (1:27), then “just hours of relentless work” before the first sale.
Ask the captains
Dan credits two captains, “Michael and George” (0:05), and “asking questions to verified experts in your field” (3:33).
What support is like
- Captains and the community. Dan: “When you have a question, you just fire it off” (4:27), and “24 hours a day, The Real World is active” (4:33). That is Dan’s account. The Real World publishes no response-time promise.
- Professors and captains. Dan names two captains, Michael and George, and speaks of “verified experts in your field”, without naming the professor.
- No guarantee. The Real World’s Terms of Use say it doesn’t guarantee any financial outcome. Every campus starts from the fundamentals and assumes no prior knowledge.
Real wins and reviews
Other members’ wins from across The Real World, with names and avatars blurred. Tap any screenshot to see it full size. They are individual results, not typical ones, and not a promise: The Real World doesn’t publish average member earnings.
What members said on Trustpilot
Trustpilot has since removed The Real World’s profiles. These excerpts come from archived copies of those pages, read on 25 October 2026, with the reviewer’s first name, country and date as shown; “Invited” is Trustpilot’s label for reviews that came through a business link. The jointherealworld.com.de profile was not run by The Real World; reviewers used it anyway. They are reviews of The Real World as a whole, not of one campus, and other people’s words, not this site’s findings.
“The biggest thing for me, besides the lessons and the professors, is the community. You have a problem, ask a question in chat, fixed in 5 minutes.”
“after a month, I informed them that their services were not suitable for me. Despite my clear communication, they attempted to withdraw a significant amount of money from my credit card for an additional two months.”
The Real World replied: “turn off auto-renew before your next billing date.”
“Most the informaton you could find for free online in other places but you'll spend more time trying to find a simple step by step guide then using this platform.”
“Despite paying $49 per month (around $300 total), I didn't make any money or gain valuable insights. Much of the content was outdated and U.S.-focused”
“the campuses are also perfect if you are completely new to these methods of wealth creation but it'll take you some time before you see results.”
“The courses themselves are okay, but they're difficult to apply, and getting real clients is even harder. Overall, I don't think this works.”
For the record, the scores on 27 February 2025: the profile at trwstudent.com showed 2.9 from 23 reviews, and therealworldeducation.com showed 4.4 from 82, most of them invited through a business link over two days. Both profiles have since been removed.
Is this path for you?
It may suit you if
- You can put in long hours early on. Dan describes “just hours of relentless work” before the first sale.
- You have a small budget to start. The Real World groups Ecommerce, whose description includes Amazon FBA, with “a small budget and an interest in products”.
- You will ask questions. Dan credits two captains and the community more than anything else.
It may not suit you if
- You are looking for an Amazon FBA campus. There is none in the app’s campus list today; the nearest is Ecommerce.
- You read “double” the old salary as profit. Dan gives no figure and doesn’t say whether it is revenue or profit.
- You have no budget at all. For no budget, The Real World points to Client Acquisition, Strategic Marketing or AI Automation instead.
- You need a guaranteed return. The Real World’s Terms of Use say it doesn’t guarantee any financial outcome, and Dan’s figures are Dan’s own.
Dan’s account is one student’s, given a month in, in an interview The Real World chose to publish. For the nearest campus today, see the Ecommerce campus page and the Ecommerce campus review.
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Sources
- The Real World: Dan’s student interview video (Cloudflare Stream) — transcribed October 26, 2026
- jointherealworld.com home page with the interview and its caption (Wayback Machine, June 8, 2023)
- Inside The Real World app: the “My Campuses” list and the Ecommerce Learning Center (screenshots from the owner’s member account) — captured October 25 and 26, 2026
- The Real World: courses page (the Ecommerce description, “Dropshipping, private label, Amazon FBA.”; where to start) — checked September 12, 2026
- The Real World Terms of Use (no guaranteed outcome) — checked September 14, 2026
- Trustpilot reviews of trwstudent.com, archived February 27, 2025 (Wayback Machine) — read October 25, 2026
- Trustpilot reviews of therealworldeducation.com, archived February 27, 2025, pages 1 and 2 (Wayback Machine) — read October 25, 2026
- Trustpilot reviews of www.cobratate.com, archived December 28, 2022 (Wayback Machine) — read October 25, 2026
- Trustpilot reviews of jointherealworld.com.de (not run by The Real World), archived February 27, 2026 (Wayback Machine) — read October 25, 2026