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Val Katayev

11 statements across 2 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jul 14, 2021 by Sam Parr · said 36 times in 5 episodes since 2021 · across every show →

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2024 12 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
2021 24 mentions in 1 episode

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Jul 14, 2021 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Val Katayev scaled a solo ringtone business to $10M annual profit
“He started a cell phone ringtone business. He was the only employee and it did ten million in revenue in year three. He was started when he was 18, so this is when he was like 21. Ten million, so ten million in profit, he said.”
Sam Parr Jul 14, 2021 ▶ 37:05 When to Go All In on an Idea & the Crypto Exchange That Could Have Been | My First Million #200
Jan 26, 2022
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Ringtone Matcher hit $10 million in annual revenue as a solo operation
“I think, I believe the year, I think the year we merged, it was ten million.”
Val Katayev Jan 26, 2022 ▶ 16:33 $1M By 19, $100M+ By 35 -- Here's How He Did It
Jan 26, 2022
Disclosure
Katayev: Underpriced paid search inventory drove massive affiliate marketing profits
“And at the same time, the media wasn't expensive. Right. Because the supply was there, but the demand wasn't there. So that's what I took advantage of. I start buying up a lot of the supply. Mostly it was search, search page search. And that's what made everyt…”
Val Katayev Jan 26, 2022 ▶ 7:56 $1M By 19, $100M+ By 35 -- Here's How He Did It
Jan 26, 2022
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Katayev: Dot-com crash collapsed ad CPMs from $3 to 30 cents
“Then the.com bubble hits. My revenues disappeared. 90%. My traffic was still up there, but I had no revenues because all the ad revenue disappeared. Like it went from being three dollars CPM down to 30 cents CPM.”
Val Katayev Jan 26, 2022 ▶ 5:02 $1M By 19, $100M+ By 35 -- Here's How He Did It
Jan 26, 2022
Disclosure
Katayev personally invested over $10 million into his fine jewelry startup
“I mean, at this point I put in eight figures into this business.”
Val Katayev Jan 26, 2022 ▶ 25:48 $1M By 19, $100M+ By 35 -- Here's How He Did It
Jan 26, 2022
Insight
Digital arbitrage windows have compressed from six years to one year
“The windows of opportunity, those white spaces, right? The windows, windows are becoming shorter and shorter and shorter every iteration, right? There was the page search probably lasted a good six years. After that or around that same time, there was display …”
Val Katayev Jan 26, 2022 ▶ 30:24 $1M By 19, $100M+ By 35 -- Here's How He Did It
Jan 26, 2022
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Katayev's Ringtone Matcher platform reached 500 million monthly users
“I was in front of ringtone match. It was in front of a half a billion people a month.”
Val Katayev Jan 26, 2022 ▶ 14:57 $1M By 19, $100M+ By 35 -- Here's How He Did It
Jan 26, 2022 positive
Disclosure
Katayev systematically restricts resources from his kids to teach them natural resourcefulness
“I suppress resources for my kids systematically. Not like I don't feed them, like they're very, they're doing just fine. Like they're, they go to school and everything. They live in a nice neighborhood, but I systematically make sure that they're not given all…”
Val Katayev Jan 26, 2022 ▶ 36:57 $1M By 19, $100M+ By 35 -- Here's How He Did It
Jan 26, 2022 positive
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An unnamed cosmetics brand scaled to $80M using only YouTube influencers
“I know I know like for one company, they scale to like, eighty million in sales a few years ago. I'm not gonna mention the name of it, but they scale up to like, eighty million in sales just on the back of YouTube influencers.”
Val Katayev Jan 26, 2022 ▶ 32:32 $1M By 19, $100M+ By 35 -- Here's How He Did It
Jan 26, 2022 neutral
Disclosure
Katayev: Driven primarily by winning and fear of losing everything
“I think what I'm driven really is by just winning. And there is, I think there is a bit of sense in me of that I'm one step from losing it all.”
Val Katayev Jan 26, 2022 ▶ 38:10 $1M By 19, $100M+ By 35 -- Here's How He Did It
Jan 26, 2022
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Katayev generated $10,000 per month brokering online ads in high school
“So I went to all these other video game sites and like just was a broker for advertising. So that was kind of like my first you know, making decent amount of money. I was making five and then like just from the site and I was making probably another 10 a month…”
Val Katayev Jan 26, 2022 ▶ 5:59 $1M By 19, $100M+ By 35 -- Here's How He Did It
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