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Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85
Q Where'd you get, it's crazy that you and your family, you just find all these opportunities. Where did it start? So your thing, first thing was a PlayStation website, which, what is that?
A So the site called PSX extreme. Um, we, this is like, I launched like in 98, 99 or something like that. Actually it was 99. It was right before the, the, the bubble, the.com bubble burst. I was like about eight months into the, the, the bubble and it was doing really well. It was very easy to, to generate revenue. And you know, once I got the traffic, it was, the site was all about anything related to PlayStation. So like get cheat codes, your reviews, Um, screenshots, whatever, right? Anything for like PlayStation fans. So it was like a PlayStation fan website. 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. If you could be lucky enough to get that.
AI assessment note: “So the site called PSX extreme... the site was all about anything related to PlayStation.”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.30
Q Yeah. How did you get into the jewelry business to start with?
A Um, so after I sold those two music related companies, um, which I took like three years off. Off, you know, I thought I retired, I'll retire, um, but it was anything but, I just got, started getting like, my, my curiosity was just taking me into all different, like, I was on all these boards, and I was like, you know, investing into a bunch of things, and, um, and I realized after three years, I need to build something again, so I started looking at, I knew that I wanted to do something where it's, uh, fixing or, Disrupting a fragmented space. I didn't really want to go after like corporate America. Um, I wanted to go after like a mom and pops that when I say mom and pops, it could be like, you know, I'm thinking like car dealerships, right? They do tens of millions of dollars. It doesn't mean they're tiny. Right? So I wanted to go after something like along those lines. Um, And I had some investments in the jewelry space. I had some family in the jewelry space. It's a pretty tight knit community. Uh, I just happened to be, uh, had some family that, uh, to, that, that knows that, that, that business. Um, I actually worked as a teenager. I worked, um, every weekend I worked in a, in a jewelry, in a jewelry store. I knew how to fix, like, I knew how to fix jewelry. I mean, I would sit on the bench. Uh, with a blow torch at like 15 years old. Uh, cause my cousin taught me it was …
AI assessment note: “I had some investments in the jewelry space. I had some family in the jewelry space.”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 3 4.15
Q Ten billion profit with just you. Do you, why do you think, so this is the, we'll get to the rest in a minute, but why do you think that you find this weird stuff, and why don't you hire people? Two different questions, but how on earth do you find this type of stuff?
A You know, it's, it's, it's funny, like, I know, I see how organized you are, right? Like, you make your goals, you lay everything out on paper, right? You're, you're very organized and you could think about it. You ask people for feedback. Um, I'm totally opposite of that. Um, I just kind of go with where, like I type to test things and I'm, I guess I'm very curious. Um, and, uh, and I, and I, I could be very, very focused, but if I get distracted, I get very easily distracted. Right. So it could be like, sometimes it's a curse, but sometimes it's a blessing. A lot of times it's a blessing. Um, and I come across these interesting things and my curiosity just takes it further. Um, so when I, when I, so the w the way I actually came across This thing was because I felt that there was a point of my life where I was seeing Google was just too dominant part of my business. And I didn't like that, um, because I didn't want to rely on any one thing. So I started looking outside of page search for supply. Um, And I came across these music sites and I actually started testing Rhapsody on them. Cause I had such a good deal with Rhapsody. I was like, let me start marketing outside of search. It did okay. And I had these, you know, start building these relationships with the music sites. And then, then, then I kind of tested a ringtone service and it just crushed. Like it was not even clos…
AI assessment note: “I come across these interesting things and my curiosity just takes it further.”
Answered raw tape
D 3 · C 3 · P 4 · Cm 3 3.25
Q But did they know that you're like, hey mom, like, I bet you I'm making more money than you?
A Uh, I, I think she, she kind of knew, I don't know if she knew, but, uh, what I was making, I don't remember. Um, but it was, it was strange. I was pulling up to my university or to the college. Uh, I went, I went to Baruch, um, um, New York city, Baruch business of, uh, finance, Zicklin business of finance. Um, and I would pull up in a, at some, I would pull up in like a drop top Lexus, like a 70,000 dollar car, and I was like 19, right? So, or 18, whatever I was. I think I was 18 at that point. I think, I don't think I even started the paid service at this point.
AI assessment note: “I think she, she kind of knew, I don't know if she knew”
Not addressed raw tape
D 2 · C 3 · P 2 · Cm 2 2.30
Q And it's all rooted in distribution, which is how do you get distribution quickly? And you're saying that you think that's TikTok. Do you think that window is still open?
A Um, I, I think if you have a knack for understanding how get virality or get content, then, then You have your own distribution. If you don't have that knack, you got to figure out how to work with people that have that, um, that access. So there's one company that could work with all the same parts, right? All the podcasters. Uh, how much is that worth? Like, We're using a platform here right now, right? That is smart. They're, they're, they're doing the right thing. Like they're focusing on guys like you who have all this access, but they're not selling anything, right? They're just selling you a platform. If somebody could sell, figure out how to sell a product across number of podcasts, that's worth a lot. And you could sell, you could move a lot of product. And by the way, It doesn't have to be podcasts. What about all the tick talkers who doing all those dances? Right? I know, um, I know, uh, like for one company, they, they scale to like, eighty million in sales a few years ago. I'm not gonna mention the name of it, but, um, they, they scale up to like, eighty million in sales just on the back of YouTube influencers.
AI assessment note: “I think if you have a knack for understanding how get virality”
