Aug 20–24 · The Gatsby Mansion 3 of 9 hot seats left Audience: 30 for sale
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The Premier Event in the BDSS Ecosystem

This Isn't a Conference.
It's the Room Where Empires Get (Re)Built.

3.5 days inside an 18,000 sq ft mansion on Lake Travis, where the top 1% of e-commerce tear real businesses apart — and put them back together. Most attendees call it their favorite event in all of e-commerce. This is the one that radically changes lives.

August 20–24, 2026◆ The Gatsby Mansion◆ Austin, Texas
9 Hot Seats · only 3 remain Audience seats — only 30 for sale When they're gone, they're gone
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All meals & drinks at the Mansion included. Hot seats sell out first.

What You're Walking Into

No keynotes. No Powerpoints.
Just your Business. Solved.

You transform within it.

Market Masters is held entirely under one roof, from Thursday night until most people leave Monday morning. For 3.5 days it's jam-packed: laptops out, experts in the trenches, problems fixed on the spot. People walk in stuck and walk out with a plan.

A 90-second look inside the last Market Masters.

"Pretty much, this mastermind just ruined every other mastermind in the industry for me."

— Luba Ilyasova

It's the setting, the hot seats, and the people. Some of the smartest operators in Amazon, Shopify, TikTok and e-commerce — all in one mansion, all weekend, all there to work on your business. Just one or two connections or strategies can change the entire course of your company.

The Difference It Makes

Real People. Real Businesses. Impressive Hot Seat Results.

It's life-changing for the people who actually implement what they're told — and the audience watching takes home a fortune in ideas too.

Watch Palak Raniwala tell her own story.

From $1.5M → $5M → On Track for $20M

Palak Raniwala did what the experts told her — and 13x'd her business.

Palak Raniwala came in 2024 doing about $1.5 million in home goods. Within months she hit $5 million. In 2026 she's on track for $20 million. When Kevin asked if something went viral or she landed Oprah, she said: "No. I just did what you guys said and implemented what my expert panel told me."

Julie Napolitano's written testimonial
A Bleeding Business, Turned Profitable

From –8% to +24% — Julie stopped bleeding money.

Julie was confident she knew how things worked. After finally listening to the experts, she fixed her unit economics and took her Amazon contribution margin from –8% (bleeding money) to +24%. "My business is moving in the right direction. Finally."

Kate Bray on what changed after her hot seat.

From Hot Seat to the Prosper Stage

Kate Bray turned the advice she received into a career milestone.

Kate Bray spent the months after her hot seat taking action on the advice. The result: she's now speaking at the Prosper Show, her product was shown to Kevin O'Leary, and her dream retail packaging is finally happening. "That week has completely changed my life and I will shout it from the rooftops."

True Sea Moss: attended BDSS Market Masters in 2025 at $110M revenue, on track to exceed $200M+ in 2026, on the way to $1 billion
From $110M → On Track for $200M+ → $1 Billion

True Sea Moss is doubling nine figures — and building toward a billion.

True Sea Moss came to Market Masters in 2025 already doing $110 million in revenue. In 2026 they're on track to exceed $200 million+ — and building toward $1 billion on the strength of their omnichannel playbook. Proof that even nine-figure operators come to the Mansion to break through the next ceiling.

Who Market Masters Is For

From Day One to $200 Million+

This isn't reserved for the biggest sellers in the room — it's built for operators at every stage who are serious about scaling and solving their biggest pain points — including the ones they're sometimes blind to. In the Mansion you'll find brands that just started, brands doing $1 million+, and brands doing $200 million+ — all working on their businesses side by side. Whatever your number, your peers and your next breakthrough are here.

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Just Getting Started

Pre-revenue founders and brand-new sellers who want a prioritized roadmap and the right people around them before they waste years guessing.

$1M+

Scaling Past the Grind

Six- and seven-figure brands fighting platform dependency, thin margins or founder-bottleneck — ready to fix unit economics and break through.

$200M+

Chasing the Next Ceiling

Eight- and nine-figure operators pressure-testing how to cross the next threshold — and discovering the blind spots even big teams miss.

The Heart of Market Masters

How a Hot Seat Actually Works

Think tank, not shark tank. You're not on a stage — it's a large conference-room setting with you, a moderator, and a curated panel of 6 world-class experts flown in for your specific problems. And if you're not in a hot seat yourself, you can watch most of them as an "audience member" — most people fill an entire notebook with takeaways for their own business just by watching as many hot seats as you can.

A BDSS Market Masters hot seat in session — "The amount of extraordinary value and compounded effect of the experts is insane"
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You submit your business

You fill out a detailed form in advance. Kevin personally curates 6 experts — from Amazon, Shopify, TikTok, branding, PPC, ops, off-platform traffic and beyond — matched to your exact pain points. Each gets a dossier and does their homework.

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One hour of questions only

A moderator coordinates the first hour — nothing but questions, detailed, pointed, sometimes uncomfortable. No advice yet. The experts dig into every corner of your business until the real problem (often not the one you came in with) surfaces. You choose whether your session is open or closed (private) — most choose open.

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Pinpointed solutions

After a short break, the experts come back with specific, tactical fixes: do this, stop that, talk to this person, use this resource. About 2 hours 20 minutes total. It can be emotional. It's almost always transformative. And besides your own notes, only you get an AI summary, audio file and full transcript of your session.

Most hot seats are open to the audience — and watching them is where audience members say they take pages of notes for their own business. Occasionally a participant requests a closed session, and that's when relaxing and networking in the Mansion is just as valuable.

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Watch One For Yourself

See a Real Hot Seat in Action

Hot seats are usually never recorded — they're too raw and too personal. But Kate Bray wanted to share hers to help other founders, and Florian Werner's was captured at BDSS XI in Iceland. This is exactly what happens when the polite filter comes off.

Kate Bray's hot seat — shared with permission to help other founders.

Florian Werner's hot seat — filmed at BDSS XI, Iceland (April 2025).

The Two Hot Seats You Just Watched

Kate Bray and Florian Werner are the two founders in the recordings above — proof of how the room works on businesses at completely different stages. Whether or not you're in the seat, you'll learn from watching every one.

DTC · Femcare

Kate Bray — Period-Pain Heating Pad Brand

~$400K since Oct 2024 · mostly Shopify

A weighted, diaper-shaped heating pad that reframes brutal cramps as "athletic recovery for the uterus," driven by a fiercely loyal community and founder-led content.

  • Cash flow constraints choking growth ("$17 in the account")
  • A 900-person waitlist she's under-monetizing
  • Marketing a product she legally can't fully describe
  • Whether to chase a 9-figure exit — or whether that's ego
Amazon · EU + US

Florian Werner — $10M Travel Pillow Brand

€10M/yr · 3 SKUs · ~45% market share in Germany

Built a category-leading brand in a product everyone says you shouldn't sell — then asked the room how to stay focused, structure his team, and whether the idea is too small.

  • Founder is the single point of failure — nothing breaks if he leaves, but nothing grows
  • Thin margins and a dying category capping any real exit
  • 13% US return rate and no defined customer avatar
  • Missing IP and an aging review moat
Live This August in Austin

A Sneak Peek at 4 of the 9 August Hot Seats in Austin

These four cover the full spectrum on purpose — pre-revenue startup, seven-figure brand, eight-figure brand chasing nine, and a founder rebuilding around AI and freedom. Whatever stage you're at, one of these seats is your business. You won't watch theory — you'll watch real operators with real numbers get taken apart and rebuilt, live, in the room.

Amazon · Powersports

The $2M Powersports Brand Fighting Amazon Dependency

~$2M/yr peak · 82% Amazon US, 18% Canada

Started with $300 of stock in 2014. Sharp on product development, openly weak on email, social and funnels. The goal: scale to $5M annualized while working three days a week and removing himself as the bottleneck. If you've ever felt trapped inside your own Amazon business, you'll see your problem solved live.

  • Trapped inside an Amazon-dependent business
  • Walmart, UK, Germany & real DTC all still early
  • Founder is the bottleneck
Multi-channel · Sleep

The $28M Sleep Brand Chasing Nine Figures

~$28.6M US (~$44M consolidated) · Amazon US $20.5M / ~110 SKUs

Premium memory-foam toppers & bedding — one of the few brands running Seller Fulfilled Prime at real scale, with deep supply chain and R&D muscle. Plan: a $45M run rate to $70M next year, then cross $100M. Watch the experts pressure-test how a serious operator breaks through the next ceiling.

  • Gaps in email, SEO, AEO/GEO and social
  • AI automation still untapped
  • Breaking through the next revenue ceiling
B2B · Pre-revenue

The Pre-Revenue Marketplace Swinging for the Fences

Pre-profit · built atop a 45-employee company

A B2B services marketplace, mid-build. The founder is a strong visionary and brand builder who admits the hard part is the plan — the stated ambition is "the next Uber." The earliest-stage seat of the four, and a live look at how the experts turn a big vision into a prioritized go-to-market roadmap. Anyone early in their journey will see themselves here.

  • Big vision, no prioritized go-to-market roadmap
  • Pre-profit and mid-build
  • A live look for anyone early in their journey
Multi-channel · Skincare

The $1.2M Skincare Founder Going Location-Independent

$1.2M in 2025 → on track for $1.5M in 2026 · grew $35K → $90K/mo on Amazon

Clinical-grade peptide skincare, US-manufactured, already across Amazon FBA, Shopify, Walmart, TikTok Shop and now Coupang in Korea. Strong on organic sales and formulation with 20+ years of experience; weak on awareness, conversion and launches. The dream: a lean, AI-run business operated from anywhere in the world.

  • Low brand awareness & conversion
  • Launches not landing
  • Wants growth without chaining to the desk
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Beyond the Hot Seats

6 In-Depth, 90-Minute Workshops

Not PowerPoint — working sessions. Bring your laptop and build alongside the presenter, then follow up with them directly throughout the weekend to make sure it actually landed. Everyone is welcome and highly encouraged to attend.

Build Your Own AI "Hermes" Agent

Andrew Erickson

Build a custom AI agent from scratch. Set up a Brand Second Brain, wire in the best MCPs, and run listing optimization and supply chain management through one agent built for your business.

Idea → Live Tool, No Code

Marc Messer

Watch an idea go from blank page to a live, working tool — built with frontier models like Claude and Codex, deployed on Cloudflare to handle real traffic. Leave with a repeatable process, even if you've never written a line of code.

Content at Scale That Performs

Rob Green

Generate images and video at scale, build out personas, and turn it all into content that actually converts. Feed the machine on TikTok and Meta without burning hours or a whole team.

Controlling Retail AI & Agents

Tim Jordan

Tim's been reverse-engineering retail AI and building agents on the raw LLM. Learn how the hidden instructions inside these models really work — the stuff providers don't want you to see — and control AI far more accurately than you do today.

Earn Press Without a PR Firm

Matt Harris

The exact system Matt uses to get quoted by CBS News, National Geographic, NBC and TODAY — no PR firm, no cheesy paid placements. Become the expert journalists call, and turn credibility into customers.

Turn Your List Into an ATM

Kevin King & Norm Farrar

Your inbox list is the only audience you truly own — and most brands leak money from it daily. Turn your warm list into a private ATM, and build cold intent lists of live, in-market buyers. No ads, no SEO, no bidding.

A Message From Matt About His Workshop

Don't Just Take Our Word For It

Why Your Butt Needs to Be
in Austin This August 20–24

30+ of the world's top e-commerce experts and BDSS Dream 100 members are in the room all weekend — plus many more stopping in and out. The brain power and experience you get to rub elbows with and get mentored by is insane.

  • Proximity is power. You'll be sitting beside — and eating dinner with — people doing $80M, $120M, $200M+ a year. The raw truth, no sugarcoating, from experts in branding, PPC, fulfillment, TikTok and off-Amazon traffic.
  • The Friday curated dinner. You'll be grouped into a table of 6–8 people you don't know but should — instant connections engineered to put the right people across from you off-site.
  • The famous Saturday night Mansion party. Murderbot gambling, loads of drinks, and a room full of fun games — plus the new Side Hustle Live. It's the night people talk about all year.
  • Every meal & every drink at the Mansion is on us. A team of private chefs cooking for you the way you like it, all your drinks (alcoholic and not) included, snacks all day.
  • Get pampered while you work. Kevin's trainer is on hand to work you out and his masseuse is on site — recover between hot seats and show up sharp.
  • Watch every open hot seat & corner the experts. Take notes for your own business all weekend, then pull any expert aside over a meal, a break, or a party.
  • Leave with actions, not overwhelm. 6 hands-on workshops you can implement on the spot — and attendees say it makes every other event pale in comparison.
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In Their Own Words

What Past Attendees & Experts Say

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What came out of this was specific, actionable things I can do starting tomorrow to take my company to the next level.

— Mark Thornton
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The last 30 minutes turned out to be a conversation that will probably change the trajectory of the business for the next five years.

— Mike Bitter
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Proximity is power. When you're sitting next to the top 1% of the whole e-commerce world… it's very, very powerful.

— Vanessa Hung
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Honestly, when I heard how much this cost, I thought — that's too cheap.

— Adam Heist
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I've never been at another event where each participant gets this level of breakthrough by having top experts focus on them specifically.

— Rich Goldstein
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This is the kind of event that scales you from $20 million to $100 million.

— Gracey Ryback
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I sat in a hot seat and had my business torn apart, ripped and grilled — because I wanted it to be. Phenomenal value for a phenomenal return.

— Charles Chakkalo
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I already paid off my entire trip because I got advice that changed my life.

— Elizaveta Ritz
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If you attend one, it will make all the other events you attend pale in comparison. Kevin King doesn't do anything half-assed.

— Janelle Page
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You don't always get what you want — but you're going to get what you need. And that's what happened here.

— Amy Wees
The Experience

3.5 Days at The Gatsby Mansion

An 18,000 sq ft estate on Lake Travis in Hudson Bend — indoor pickleball stadium, pool, theater room, cigar room, casino games. About 30 minutes from downtown Austin and 40 minutes from the Austin airport (AUS). You won't want to be anywhere else all weekend.

The Gatsby Mansion — 18,000 sq ft estate on Lake Travis

✦ Food & Drink — Included

Every meal at the Mansion — breakfast, lunch and dinner — is private chef-prepared and included, plus snacks all day. All drinks (alcoholic and non-alcoholic) are included too. We can accommodate any dietary needs.

The only exception: the Friday-night curated dinner off-site, where the check is split among your small assigned group (a deliberate way to meet people you should know).

✦ Arrival & Departure

  • Arrive late afternoon / early evening Thursday, Aug 20 (check-in after 4pm)
  • Depart early evening Sunday (Aug 23) or anytime Monday, August 24 — Mansion checkout is 10am
  • Lake Travis in Hudson Bend — ~30 min from downtown, ~40 min from AUS airport

✦ Lodging & Shuttle

All rooms inside the Mansion are sold out. We recommend booking direct with our preferred resort, Lakeway Resort and Spa, about 12 minutes away (~$250/night). We run a private shuttle several times a day between the resort and the Mansion.

Book direct: lakewayresortandspa.com

You're welcome to stay elsewhere — but getting to the Mansion is on your own (Uber is available). Note: no meals or activities happen at the resort. Everything happens at the Gatsby Mansion.

✦ Wellness & Extras

  • Kevin's trainer Mike runs workout sessions (included)
  • Massages with Jennifer & facials available (extra cost)
  • Saturday: Side Hustle Live + a Gatsby-themed Mansion party with Murderbot
  • A hack contest with a cash prize — 3 minutes to share your best nugget
Lakeway Resort and Spa on Lake Travis

Lakeway Resort and Spa on Lake Travis — our recommended stay, ~12 min away, with a private shuttle several times a day to the Mansion. lakewayresortandspa.com

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The Hack Contest — Open to Everyone

Everyone in the Mansion can compete for a cash prize. Got a killer hack, a tool, or a quick little nugget that could win it for the room? Be ready to deliver it in 3 minutes or less. It's one of the most fun — and most useful — moments of the weekend, where the whole room walks away with something new.

The Rough Schedule

Three hot seats and two workshops each day, plus networking. (B/L/D = breakfast/lunch/dinner at the Mansion.) All meals and activities happen at The Gatsby Mansion — nothing happens at the hotel. This is a rough outline, subject to change — it is not final.

Thursday
  • Check-in 4pm–10pm & dinner at the Mansion
  • Informal networking
Friday
  • 8am–6:30pm: Hot seats & workshops · B, L at the Mansion
  • 7:30–10pm: Assigned Curated dinners off-site (pay your own way)
Saturday
  • 8am–6pm: Hot seats & workshops · B, L, D at the Mansion
  • 7:00–8:30pm: Side Hustle Live at the Mansion
  • 8:30–11pm: Gatsby-themed party with Murderbot
Sunday
  • 9am–7pm: Hot seats & workshops · B, L, D at the Mansion
  • Sunday night: Networking throughout the Mansion and cigar lounge with the Misfits
Monday
  • Departure anytime · checkout 10am

Bring: a laptop for workshops, your Gatsby party outfit, $50–$100 cash for Murderbot & games — and remember, it's warm in Texas in August.

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When They're Gone, They're Gone

Two Ways In. Both Change Your Business.

Included All meals & all drinks at the Mansion
Not included Airfare · hotel · Friday curated dinner

There are only 9 hot seats — and just 3 remain. And there are only 30 audience seats for sale and they're going fast. Sitting in the hot seat is the most life-changing; being in the audience is close behind. Either way, you'll leave with the people, the truth, and the plan to grow.

"Take the weekend, come have fun, but fix your business and personalize it to what you need."

— Gracey Ryback, BDSS Dream 100 Member

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