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The a16z Show

The Hustler's Guide to Getting Paid

The a16z Show

a16z

Software Eating The World, Technology, Innovation, Science, Disruption, Culture, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.21.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

with @bhorowitz @shakasenghor ram @earnin & vaughn ferguson Hustlin’ Tech is a new show (part of the a16z Podcast) that introduces the technology platforms — and mindsets — for everybody and anybody who has the desire, the talent, and the hustle to ...

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0:00.0

Welcome. This is the Hustler's Guide to Tech, where you don't need a degree from Harvard or Stanford or a STEM education or none of that.

0:22.6

All you need is drive, ambition, and the will to get it done. In other words, you need to be a hustler.

0:32.0

No doubt. And we're here today with my co-ho, Shaka.

0:36.1

What's happening in Shaka? Happy to be here, man. Excited. Shaka. What's happening, Shaka.

0:37.8

Happy to be here, man, excited.

0:39.3

Shaka came straight out the penitentiary, sold books off the street.

0:43.5

Yeah, out the trunk of the car.

0:44.7

Oh, the trunk of the car by himself, that he published himself.

0:47.4

And now is the New York Times bestselling author.

0:49.8

And we're here talking to Ram, the CEO of Earnin, where you can get paid as soon as you work.

0:57.8

And then we're here with Vaughn, the hustler, who's taking advantage of that and getting his.

1:03.3

So let's get into it.

1:04.6

Let's get into it, man.

1:06.2

So dope name.

1:07.0

I love the name Earning.

1:08.2

The first thing that came to my mind was Harry D. Money Earned Mount Vernon. I was like name, Ernin. The first thing that came to my mind was, Kevin D. Money Earned Mount Vernon.

1:13.6

I was like, that's the house for name right there, Ernan, though, you know.

1:18.3

Money earning.

1:19.1

Yeah, money earning, right? But that's like a brilliant concept.

1:22.5

Well, why don't you tell us, like, what earning is and what it does?

1:26.0

Yeah, so there's this problem that people now call the $400

1:28.5

problem, which is 40% in the country can't find $400. And to me, it's crazy that that happens

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