Most people reinvent once or twice in a crisis. Dan Chan has reinvented himself deliberately three times in 25 years – from PayPal engineer to children’s magician earning $250 per show, to corporate entertainer at $10,000 per night, to the ultra-exclusive “Millionaires’ Mentalist” commanding $10,000–$50,000 for a single private performance. On stage, Dan reads minds and predicts choices in impossible ways, then reveals the exact mental models, pricing strategies, and positioning moves that let him 100× his fees while cutting his working days by 85%. 

This is not motivation – it’s a repeatable playbook for turning any career, even commoditized skill, into a lifelong wealth engine. Audiences leave understanding how to make their next reinvention inevitable, profitable, and fun. 

Why do some people get paid 100× more for similar services? Dan went from the lowest-priced magician in the Bay Area to one of the highest! Live on stage he demonstrates psychological influence techniques, then deconstructs how he applied the same principles to pricing, packaging, and client perception.

You’ll discover the “Luxury Reframe,” the “Scarcity Engine,” and the exact scripts that let him raise fees even during recessions. Sales teams, consultants, agency owners, and executives walk away with immediate ways to double (or 10×) their rates without losing clients. 

In 2000, Dan signed a petition to remove Elon Musk as CEO of PayPal. In 2024, he performed an exclusive show inside Elon’s living room. That single full-circle story proves relationship capital can compound longer and more profitably than almost any financial investment.

Blending jaw-dropping mentalism with real-world examples from PayPal Mafia members, Fortune 500 CEOs, and billionaire investors, Dan shows how to plant “relationship seeds” that bloom 5, 10, even 24 years later. Attendees learn a simple system for tracking, nurturing, and activating high-value relationships so that decades from now, the people in the room today become their biggest paydays. 

Every market looks red until someone makes it blue. Dan entered the most saturated, race-to-the-bottom industry imaginable (birthday-party magicians) and turned it into a blue ocean of billionaire clients and eight-figure performers.

Using live demonstrations of influence and prediction, Dan illustrates how he applied Blue Ocean Strategy, category design, and extreme differentiation to escape competition entirely. 

Perfect for teams in crowded industries (real estate, consulting, software, legal, wealth management, etc.), this session delivers a step-by-step process to redefine your market so competitors become irrelevant. 

Picasso, Hermès, and Dan Chan have one thing in common: they turned pure creativity into a scarce, high-status luxury good. Dan shows how any creative skill (design, writing, coding, magic, music, coaching) can be repositioned as a Veblen good that becomes more desirable as the price increases.

Through astonishing mentalism and never-before-shared case studies (including his own journey from $250 kids’ shows to $10,000 private performances for tech titans), audiences discover the exact branding, storytelling, and distribution tactics that transform creativity from freelance income into generational wealth. 

The most improbable redemption arc in Silicon Valley history – told by the only person who lived both ends of it. In 2000, Dan Chan was PayPal employee #155 and one of the signers trying to oust Elon Musk.

Twenty-four years later, he was the only entertainer ever invited to perform inside Elon’s private home. Part mind-blowing mentalism, part never-before-told insider stories about tech titans, and the early PayPal days, this keynote explores forgiveness, long-term thinking, reputation compounding, and how yesterday’s enemies can become tomorrow’s highest-paying clients.