#45 - Drones Washing Windows, Airpod Guided Tours & Mario Kart VR with Furqan Rydhan

My First Million

Hubspot

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Sam (@thesamparr) and Shaan (@shaanvp) are back talking news, trends, interesting products and businesses. Today we’re joined by Furqan Rydhan (@FurqanR) who is a tech badass. He was paid $120K as a 15 year old programmer during the Dot Com Boom, made a million dollar e-com biz at 17 and was an early employee at Applovin that was valued last at $2 billion. Remember Ramon’s soap opera blog that he sold for $9M in cash? He did that through the online business broker Quiet Light Brokerage. We’ve partnered up with them to give you guys a FREE 25-point checklist to see how sellable your online business is. To receive this free guide, visit quietlightbrokerage.com/myfirstmillion. Topics for today: Our Guest’s @FurqanR Background (00:36), Funny Story about Vungle’s Jack Smith and Lance Armstrong (07:12), The Process of Brainstorming Ideas (09:36), VR/AR Experiences (10:16), Opportunities in Reviving Stale Franchises and Company Turnarounds (17:07), iPad Whiteboard Meeting Idea (22:44), Reinventing the Phone Call through Airpods (27:51), Furquan’s House Hackathon Ideas (29:49), Serialized Story Apps like Hooked (37:09), Drone Washing Windows on Big Buildings (38:38), Money Printing Mobile Apps (44:44) and What Furqan learnt being Applovin (50:20). See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0	All right, there's this amazing book called Getting Everything You Can Out Of All You've Got.
0:04.9	I read it a few years ago and it changed my life.
0:07.8	And the reason I loved it was because it basically talks about how to get and make more money
0:12.7	using things that you already have.
0:15.1	Coincidentally, today's podcast is brought to you by Business Made Simple.
0:19.6	It's a podcast by Donald Miller, who I'm going to tell you about in a second, but he has
0:23.3	this amazing episode that's all related to this book and the things that I learned in this
0:26.9	book.
0:27.9	It's called How to Make Money With What You Already Have.
0:29.4	It's an incredible episode.
0:30.9	It talks about all the stuff that I learned in this book.
0:33.2	The host is Donald Miller.
0:34.7	I didn't know who Donald Miller was up until recently, but over the last 12 months, this
0:37.9	is totally by coincidence.
0:38.9	There was all separate people.
0:40.2	They said you have to check out Donald Miller.
0:42.0	He's amazing.
0:43.0	So I'm happy that he's part of Howspot's Podcast Network.
0:45.5	You can check it out.
0:46.5	Business Made Simple Podcast.
0:48.4	It's where he coaches you on how to build your business like an airplane, where the cockpit
0:52.1	is your leadership, the body is your overhead, the right engine is your marketing, the left
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