This Creative Thinker Makes Bank on Real Estate In Weird Way With Ben Uyeda of Homemade Modern
SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Nathan Latka
4.6 • 701 Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2016
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
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 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 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. |
| 0:09.7 | You'll learn how much revenue they're making, what their marketing funnel looks like, and how many customers they have. |
| 0:16.3 | I'm now at $20,000 per talk. |
| 0:18.6 | Five and six million. |
| 0:19.5 | He is hell bent on global domination. We just broke our 100,000 units sold. Five and six million. He is hell-bent on global domination. |
| 0:21.6 | We just broke our 100,000 unit sole mark. |
| 0:23.6 | And I'm your host, Nathan Latka. |
| 0:30.6 | In the last episode, number nine, you met the 15-year-old who sat on the board of a Japanese company, |
| 0:36.6 | made $15,000 per day selling |
| 0:39.1 | Beanie babies in a super weird way, and now sells over $80 million in cars every year. |
| 0:47.3 | All right, guys, our guest today is Ben Weta. |
| 0:50.7 | Now, Ben graduated from Cornell with his master's in architecture in 2005, where he then |
| 0:56.7 | continued guest lecturing. Now, in 2006, he founded Zero Energy Design, where his work was |
| 1:03.2 | featured in architectural record and popular mechanics. Ben continues to run his own firm in Boston, |
| 1:09.9 | right there on Milk Street, and is actively investing in real estate in a not so common way, which we'll discuss on the show. |
| 1:16.4 | So, Ben, are you ready to take us to the top? |
| 1:20.5 | Well, maybe just a little bit higher than we previously were, but let's call that the top. |
| 1:25.7 | Such an architecture major response. |
| 1:28.8 | Well, dude, listen, we've had a ton of fun together, |
| 1:32.0 | whether it's been out on Santa Barbara, |
| 1:34.2 | going out sailing to the Catalina Islands. |
| 1:36.8 | And you know, I knew I really liked you |
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