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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

1348 His BlockChain Wallet Will be on 100m Phones by EOY 2018, Does He Make Money?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

Ceo, Entrepreneurs, Founders, Software, Business, Entrepreneurship, Saas, Startups

4.6683 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Worked in Telecom for much of my carrier. Starting as EIR at IDT Telecom. Then worked as director of mobile apps for PCS wireless. It's there that I saw the market opportunity. I left PCS, sold my home and launched UpChannel.

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0:00.0

If you guys love the podcast, you want to get the audible version of my new book,

0:04.1

How to Be a Capitalist Without Any Capital at Capitalistbook.com.

0:08.9

A user named just Jay on Amazon said this in a review, a four-hour workweek for 2019.

0:15.5

He goes on to say, I bought this book because I read somewhere that it was like a four-hour work week of 2019,

0:20.1

and it absolutely delivered. The book delivered on both big ideas and has specific actionable templates,

0:25.5

including unredacted and minimally redacted emails. This book is not chalk full of self-promotion

0:30.5

or useless platitudes, but has broken down into four key rules explained in solid detail and

0:35.2

with specific and often amusing anecdotes.

0:38.0

Reading this really got my wheels and my head turning of how to be resourceful,

0:41.3

which many say is the ultimate trait of a successful entrepreneur.

0:44.5

My favorite of the four rules is blank.

0:47.2

You have to go read the review to find out.

0:48.5

But guys, thanks for supporting me on the podcast.

0:50.7

I hope you go grab the book on Audible today at capitalistbook.com.

0:56.2

He wishes he knew to buy Bitcoin. Interesting statement coming from someone that's investing

1:00.9

in the tech related to blockchain versus the speculative nature of Bitcoin. But he's jumped in

1:05.3

the space, founded upchana, raised $1.5 million, team of 11 people and working on this product,

1:10.2

essentially providing the first form of a wallet on these phones that are produced by

1:15.1

manufacturers that are not the typical ones you think of. They've got 2 million phones already

1:20.1

in the hands of people using it today. The average engagement rates are way higher than other

1:24.3

app engagement rates, which is great. They've got another 100 million in terms of devices committed over the next year to roll out their

1:30.8

wallet too.

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