Ep. 61 - Trip Adler: Overnight Success - 7 Years in the Making

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James Altucher

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🗓️ 14 November 2014

⏱️ 51 minutes

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One of Forbes recent 30 under 30 Trip Adler is a real life success story. Growing up in Palo Alto and graduating with a biophysics degree from Harvard, it seemed a given that he'd create a successful startup. But locking in on the right idea wasn't...

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0:00.0	This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.
0:06.4	This is the James Alteter Show on the Stansbury Radio Network.
0:20.1	I'm here with Trip Adler, the founder of Mega Website, Scribbed.
0:27.2	You're also where you're like a little baby, right?
0:30.1	You're like 30 years old.
0:31.4	Yes, I am 30.
0:34.7	I thought I was getting older for Silicon Valley standards.
0:38.9	That could be.
0:40.7	When you turn 30, did you like get to get to get to New York?
0:43.8	I'm glad you took that so young.
0:44.8	So that's good.
0:45.8	Well, at least you've kind of semi-made it by 30.
0:51.0	You've got a website that gets...
0:54.6	How many pages do you just do your website get a year?
0:58.4	We reach about 95 million monthly unites.
1:03.1	So about a billion a year, a little more than a billion a year.
1:06.4	Something like that, yeah.
1:08.2	And I just want to do full disclosure.
1:10.8	Your site...
1:14.3	Your site does many things.
1:15.6	First of all, it's like you initially described it as a YouTube for documents.
1:19.8	People can upload documents to the site and all their friends can look at it.
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