Jess Banks makes tables that float in midair and sell for up to $60,000. She has two engineering degrees from MIT, she is a physicist and roboticist turned inventor, she founded the kinetic furniture company Rock Paper Robot, and she co-hosts the Emmy Award-winning Netflix show Hack My Home. She has also closed the company, licensed the table to someone who has not sold one in years, and does not own one herself. In this episode she sits down with me to break down how she actually affords her life.

Jess and I walk through the real economics of making physical things: what a levitating table sells for versus what it costs to build, the $1.6 million she raised for Rock Paper Robot and how quickly it was gone, the licensing deal she signed with someone she trusted, and the $200 to $400 an hour she charges for the consulting work that pays her bills now.

Plus, she shares what a Netflix host really gets paid, the wardrobe budget she was handed and how many looks it had to cover, and what she spent out of pocket just to attend the Emmys.

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