66: From Trailer Park to Tech Mogul - The Inventor of Face Filters Jeremy Greene
The Chris Harder Show
Chris Harder
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🗓️ 23 October 2017
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
By all accounts, today's guest and CEO of PingTank, Jeremy Greene, shouldn't be running one of the most successful tech companies around. As a child who grew up poor, spent years in the foster care system and barely graduated high school, he was certainly not groomed to be an entrepreneur, but there was one difference… he had an innate sense to survive and hustle to get where he's at today.
From a start in the music business to the face filters you see today in social media, Jeremy's 8-Mile-esque story is mind-blowing. If you're looking for an inside scoop on pitching your ideas and turning them into realities, Jeremy's no-nonsense talk will set you straight about what works – and what doesn't.
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Question Highlights:
- Tell us how you got started in the music industry
- Why did you drop your career in music?
- Where did you get the posture to present yourself to billionaires?
- When you were figuring out how to be an entrepreneur, were there setbacks?
- What's your best trait as an entrepreneur?
- How do you get people to say yes?
- Where did you get your huge financial thermostat from?
- Do you feel that you're able to make a bigger impact because of your wealth?
- Where do you like to make an impact with your money?
- And more…
In This Episode You Will Learn:
- How Jeremy went from trailer park to tech mogul
- How Jeremy got his start in the music business
- Why Jeremy shifted his focus from music to technology
- Why you must fail in order to succeed
- The importance of instilling a fear of missing out mentality when pitching your product
- What Jeremy's new app Mojiit is all about
- How one can make in impact without money
- Why hustling is so important to get the money to build a bigger platform
- Tips on how to part ways from people you've outgrown
- And so much more…
Jeremy's Thoughts…
"I really understand that marketing plays a big aspect in everything you do in life."
"If you could create and sell people on a product and you can build a good product, you could convince anyone to be a part of it."
"Building a good company starts with building an amazing product first, marketing it right and giving people the fear of missing out."
"You don't learn anything until you have failures behind you."
"If you want to disrupt anything, it starts with just being OK with the comfortability of you first. You can't sell something to other people if you don't believe it yourself."
"Money doesn't buy you happiness, but it makes you comfortable."
"Money doesn't define who you are and what you become. Where you grow up does not define where you'll be one day. It's OK to outgrow people, places and things."
"You don't need money to be successful. You have everything that's built within you to be successful."
"If you have money in the bank and you're not helping people, you're an a**hole."
"Do what you love."
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Jeremy Greene is an American serial entrepreneur based in Los Angeles, California . He grew up in Maine. Greene was the number one musical artist on Myspace and ended up receiving record deals with P Diddy. He is the founder and chief executive officer of Mojiit. After his musical career ended Greene was inspired by The Social Network Movie to start a tech company and founded PingTank with a friend. Greene received publicity for his marketing stunts, including faking his arrest at a large party and then bringing out Tyga and Kylie Jenner for an impromptu performance. PingTank later did a deal with Facebook to be incorporated into Facebook Messenger. In early 2016, Green launced FwayGoApp, a party invitation and discovery application. In July 2017, he started Mojiit (Company) .
Resources:
IG: @realjeremygreene
@mojiitapp
YouTube: Jeremy Greene
Youngry Summit – Oct. 28, 2017
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everybody this is for the love of money where we are making you |
| 0:08.6 | unapologetic about your pursuit of success by sharing the tools, tips, and stories of those who have already made it. |
| 0:16.5 | My name is Chris Harder, and each week I will bring you incredible guests |
| 0:21.2 | in order to prove that when good people make good money they do great things. |
| 0:37.4 | Welcome back to another awesome episode of For the Love of Money. I am so freaking pumped for this episode with Jeremy Green because he is the dude that |
| 0:42.2 | invented the face filters that we all are addicted to |
| 0:46.5 | whether it's Snapchat, Instagram, whatever. This is the guy. This is a guy that thought up the idea, |
| 0:51.9 | put together the team and made it happen. |
| 0:54.0 | So we have him to thank for that. |
| 0:56.0 | But before we get into the interview, I want to remind you guys, |
| 0:58.0 | Lori's World Famous Bliss Project event for women is almost sold out. If you're thinking about |
| 1:06.3 | getting tickets make sure you get them soon. All you have to do is go to the |
| 1:10.7 | bliss project. info again it's the bliss project that info and if you are a woman who feels like you are trying to figure out what makes you happy trying to figure out what your purpose is trying to figure out what direction you're supposed to go in then |
| 1:24.8 | guess what? That is your tribe because everybody else there is trying to figure out the exact same thing |
| 1:30.0 | and that is exactly what the Bliss Project weekend provides for you. |
| 1:34.3 | So go check it out, The Bliss Project. info. |
| 1:37.9 | Now I am so stoked to get into this interview with Jeremy because he grew up in the foster care system and he went |
| 1:44.9 | from trailer park to tech millionaire in one year you guys by partnering with Facebook. |
| 1:51.9 | How amazing is that and so he is walking partnering with |
| 1:55.0 | a a a you can start anywhere and end up with as big of a dream come true |
| 2:02.0 | as you want. We talk about his journey, his story, we talk about the people |
| 2:05.9 | that he had to transcend and leave behind in order to make it happen, and there's even this really |
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