Kevin Ryan: How This Billionaire Founder Finds +$20B Business Ideas
My First Million
Hubspot
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🗓️ 14 September 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You, you like violate this rule that I have for myself and you do it so wonderfully, which is focus or at least it appears as, as you do you like launch like I don't know how many companies a year do you launch eight eight goddamn |
| 0:15.1 | I feel like I could rule the world. I know I could be what I want to |
| 0:23.3 | All right, we're live Kevin do you this is Kevin Ryan. Do you remember me? |
| 0:28.9 | I don't remember where we met. I know we've met, but I don't remember where that's good. Okay, you don't have to remember so basically I'm gonna tell you why this is funny |
| 0:36.6 | So basically I've studied you for maybe 10 years so you started you were the president of |
| 0:43.0 | And CEO of double click which had like a a billion dollar plus exit and then you have started like four or five companies that are |
| 0:49.3 | One's worth I think 28 billion today one's worth a |
| 0:53.0 | You have a couple billion dollar exits, but you started business insider and I called emailed you |
| 0:57.9 | maybe 50 times and |
| 1:00.3 | One of those times because I admired you so much and we'll talk about your career |
| 1:04.1 | But I wanted to be like you and one of those emails you finally replied and you just said like thanks for the updates whatever and then |
| 1:12.5 | I lied and I said I'm gonna be in New York tomorrow |
| 1:15.9 | Can I get 20 minutes of your time and you let me do that and I came to your office for literally 20 or 30 minutes |
| 1:22.1 | We had such an impactful conversation and then you did another follow up call with me |
| 1:26.0 | And I have the notes from those calls and this was in 2017 and you made a bunch of predictions about my life as well as |
| 1:33.1 | The media business and a few other things that were 100% true and |
| 1:37.5 | I refer back to that note sheet on a consistent basis to help make some decisions. Oh interesting |
| 1:43.5 | I'm glad I sometimes I get lucky and I get it right and you want to know what your your PR people |
| 1:49.3 | Colt email us to get you on the pod so the tables have turned my friend welcome to my world |
| 1:56.4 | But I just want to say like I've admired you for a long time |
| 1:59.6 | You're you're a really big deal to me and so I'm so happy that we're able to like finally do this |
| 2:04.5 | This is awesome and Kevin you don't know me |
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