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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…”
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.”
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.”
Katayev personally invested over $10 million into his fine jewelry startup
“I mean, at this point I put in eight figures into this business.”
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 …”
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.”
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…”
Katayev: Global Fine Jewelry Is a $300B Market Dominated by Independents
“And this is a three hundred billion dollar industry, by the way, globally which fragmented, but controls is actually bigger. Independence are bigger part of the business find jewelry than the majors, the chains.”
Katayev's six real estate development projects have a combined value approaching $100M
“The value of the combined sale value of value of those projects would be approaching a hundred million dollars.”
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.”
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.”
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…”