#5 - The First Viral Website: "Hot or Not"
James Hong (@jhong) is the creator of Hot or Not? He sits down to tell us how the silly website went from 42 friends, to 2 million page views per day within a week. I love his philosophy of running it like an "internet laundromat" - collecting nickels & quarters from the machine (up to $20,000 per night!) Great guy, great energy, checkout the episode. - shaan (@shaanvp on twitter) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
23 Juli 201951min
#4 - How Product Hunt's Ryan Hoover Built A $20M Community From Scratch
Who knew a product about other products could be worth tens of millions... Ryan Hoover (@rrhoover) tells us the struggle of trying to find a place in the startup world and how to tackle job rejection the right way - becoming his own boss! Truly starting from scratch, he runs us through the scrappy early days of e-mailing people one by one just to gain an extra dozen users... now that's some hustle! Tune into this episode and he'll teach you ways to push that little bit further to making your first million. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
16 Juli 201950min
#3 - Making Millions off an Email Newsletter?! Sam Parr from The Hustle Tells All
Sam Parr (@theSamParr) is the founder of The Hustle - a simple email newsletter that has surpassed 1M daily subscribers and will be north of 8 figures this year. Sam walks us through how he built The Hustle from scratch as well as his adventures starting a hot dog stand (7min), selling booze on the internet (13min), meeting celebrities on the street and convincing them to hire him (11min) and how he would get rich if he was 21 again! (33min) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
9 Juli 201951min
#2 with Ramon Van Meer - Blogging His Way To $9M in Cash
Ramon Van Meer (@ramonvanmeer) has never seen a soap opera. Yet somehow, he built the most popular soap opera blog on the planet - and was raking in millions per year! Today's conversation is about how he got the idea, and flipped a $49 WordPress theme into a multi-million dollar payday.
2 Juli 201951min
#1 - From making $76k at Microsoft to selling TinyCo for $100M+
We talk with tech founder & investor Suleman "Suli" Ali (@sulemanali) about his journey from making $76k a year at Microsoft to selling multiple companies for $100,000,000+. Highlights: Meeting Naval (19:00) getting grilled by Keith Rabois (22:00), & risking his life savings on TinyCo (57:00) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
23 Juni 20191h 16min
