EP 98: "Did ABC Reality Show Kill Your Startup?" w/ John Frye
SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Nathan Latka
4.6 • 683 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2015
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Listen to The Top if you want to hear from the worlds TOP entrepreneurs on how much they sold last month, how they are selling it, and what they are selling - 7 days a week in 20 minute interviews! Join the Top Tribe at http://NathanLatka.com/TheTop
The Top is FOR YOU if you are:
A STUDENT who wants to become the CEO of a $10m company in under 24 months (episode #4)
STUCK in the CORPORATE grind and looking to create a $10k/mo side business so you can quit (episode #7)
An influencer or BLOGGER who wants to make $27k/mo in monthly RECURRING revenue to have the life you want and full CONTROL (episode #1)
The Software as a Service (SaaS) entrepreneur who wants to grow to a $100m+ valuation (episode #14).
Your host, Nathan Latka is a 25 year old software entrepreneur who has driven over $4.5 million in revenue and built a 25 person team as he dropped out of school, raised $2.5million from a Forbes Billionaire, and attracted over 10,000 paying customers from 160+ different countries.
Oprah gets 60 minutes or more to make her guests comfortable to then ask tough questions. Nathan does it all in less than 15 minutes in this daily podcast that's like an audio version of Pat Flynn's monthly income report. Join the Top Tribe at http://NathanLatka.com/TheTop
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| 0:00.0 | This is the top, where I interview entrepreneurs who are number one or number two in their industry in terms of revenue or customer base. |
| 0:09.0 | You'll learn how much revenue they're making, what their marketing funnel looks like, and how many customers they have. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm now at $20,000 per talk. |
| 0:18.0 | Five and six million. |
| 0:19.0 | He is hell-bent on global domination. |
| 0:21.2 | We just broke our 100,000 unit sole mark. |
| 0:23.9 | And I'm your host, Nathan Latka. |
| 0:27.0 | Coming up tomorrow, you're going to hear from Jay Poe with Bessemer Ventures. |
| 0:31.9 | I specifically asked him, will Pinterest IPO in 2016? |
| 0:36.5 | Again, Jay is with a $4 billion venture capital firm that invested |
| 0:40.2 | in Pinterest. Okay, Top Tribe. Good morning. Good morning. You're going to love my guest today. |
| 0:46.1 | You know, I just got in studio here in Southwest Virginia and Roanoke, and I'm joined today by |
| 0:50.5 | John Fry. He is the youngest at 18 on a recent reality show called Startup You with |
| 0:58.0 | Tim Draper. We're going to talk about that. But his startup was called Study Better and then pivoted |
| 1:03.5 | and is now called Granted. So what he does is he's focused now on building that post show. He |
| 1:09.8 | reached out to me and I said john come on the show |
| 1:11.4 | let's talk about the show i want to talk about also your startup so john are you ready to take us to |
| 1:16.2 | the top i'm ready sir let's do it all right let's do it let's do it so first things first abc reaches |
| 1:23.2 | out to you why on earth do a reality TV show? |
| 1:35.8 | Well, I mean, it's a crazy story, man. So I actually reached out to them. I saw a article talking about Draper University. And I was at University of Santa Cruz. And I was like, you know what? |
| 1:41.2 | This is not for me. I need to be surrounded by entrepreneurs |
| 1:44.2 | and doing something like that. And I applied and I didn't hear for them for a long time, |
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