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3 Genius Business Ideas We're 'Borrowing' From Syed Balkhi

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All right, we've got our buddy Said Balke on today. If you don't know Said, he is one of the few people on earth who has bootstrapped a company. Two A unicorn status, a billion dollar company without ever taking outside money. The guy's a legend, he's in his thirties and he's done all this. What I liked about this episode is Most people. We talked to a lot of guys who've made it.

But they're kinda just like You you ask them, What would you do today? And they kinda just shrug, like I don't know, that's what worked for me back then, but Good luck to you. And you're like, shit, all right, I gotta figure this out myself. Said's the opposite. He didn't close the door behind him. He kinda just puts a ladder down and he's like

Hey, here's three specific opportunities that I see. And what I liked about these opportunities is He's very specific. He says exactly what he would do. And actually that he's looked into doing some of these things. Uh the second thing is that He these are not like moonshot ideas. It's not like Oh, invent the next big AI thing. These are just

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