#5 - The First Viral Website: "Hot or Not"

Basically you I had nothing to do. I was just going out drinking with my friends all the time. Like almost like five days a week. We have the system sending the stats like at noon and at midnight. Ten thousand dollars, fifteen thousand dollars on a good day like twenty something thousand dollars. And is it recording? Okay, so what is this? So something that entertains me. And so I wanted to create a podcast which was First and foremost just an excuse to hang out with people who I haven't been able to hang out with as much. So uh one way is to say, hey, let's go grab a coffee. And the other way is to say, what if we recorded this so that other people could be a fly on the wall and hear stories or chatter about random stuff. And I'm not trying to do it educationally. So for me it's uh stories. So stories is the part where so the podcast is called My First Million.

And the reason I picked that is because the audience that listens to this, they are st you know, entrepreneurs already or wantrepreneurs kind of thinking about, hey, you know, it'd be that's the dream. I'd love to sort of quit my job and start a business someday. Yeah. And I remember for me, and I think for this applies to many people, which is The idea of a million bucks is like a magic number. Even today when everyone's billionaire, still if you if you're a thousandaire, a million bucks sounds like all the money. Totally understand. And so In fact when I f made my first million, I put it all in one account and I went to the ATM Just to look at it. Yeah. And and I and I withdrew money so I had would have a slip of paper that said I had a million dollars. Yeah. Well, you know, the funny thing is like then we had all these jokes'cause I had these ATM slits with a million dollars on it and um we were just joking around like man We should like keep these in our wallet and then like when you give a girl your phone number and she's like oh uh let me let me write it down on let me write this before f everyone had phones or let me write it down on a slip of paper. I I have one right never actually did it, but it was a funny it was it was a funny idea. And actually it turned out I remember like Then I was w I was search googling the idea

And like there were companies I remember that sold fake ATM slips online. Oh wow. So it wasn't the same. So you weren't the first guy thinking about doing this. It's a whole new industry. I'm talking to people about how they made a million bucks in all different ways. So some people are tech entrepreneurs start a business. Some people made a million bucks um selling mushrooms and they're mushroomers. Someone's They did in crypto, CBD, you know, all the different uh types of things, real estate. And so I want to tell stories so that the listeners basically hear. Man, first there's a million ways to success. You don't have to follow a particular track. Right. And B, um just a little bit of inspiration and entertainment about how you know these stories tend to be really interesting. They kinda come out of nowhere. It wasn't a perfect plan.

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