Your First Million

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Ryan Hoover is the co-founder and CEO of the wildly popular startup platform Product Hunt. After selling it to AngelList, he remains at the helm of the company and leads a ~20-person remote team across the world. Product Hunt has helped give meaningful exposure to more than 50,000 companies and their tens of millions of product launches, and Ryan is regarded as one of the most influential people in tech. He now also invests in startups out of his Weekend Fund and recently relocated from San Francisco to Los Angeles.

Guest

Ryan Hoover

Links:

• Ryan Hoover
• Product Hunt
• Weekend Fund

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• • • • Suzy Ryoo

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Music:

• https://soundcloud.com/jeff-kaale/the-art-of-cool
• https://soundcloud.com/jeff-kaale/sunday-afternoon
• https://soundcloud.com/jeff-kaale/pancakes
• https://soundcloud.com/jeff-kaale/hearts-flowers

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Paul Judge is an entrepreneur, inventor and investor who has been based in Atlanta since 1995. He is a co-founder of TechSquare Labs, Pindrop (valued at $600million as of Dec 2018), Luma (acquired 2018), and Purewire (acquired 2009), and former Chief Technology Officer of CipherTrust (acquired 2006). He has invested in over 60 technology startups to date. Paul also briefly worked with IBM and NASA. His companies have gone on to exit for hundreds of millions of dollars cumulatively.

Paul is featured prominently in Fast Company’s September 2019 Atlanta issue.

Guest

Paul Judge

Links:

• • • Twitter
    • Instagram
    • Website
    • Fast Company article

Transcript

The transcript for this episode will be available shortly.

Credits

Music:

• https://soundcloud.com/jeff-kaale/the-art-of-cool
• https://soundcloud.com/jeff-kaale/sunday-afternoon
• https://soundcloud.com/jeff-kaale/pancakes
• https://soundcloud.com/jeff-kaale/hearts-flowers

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Justin Kan is the co-founder of Twitch, a live streaming company that was acquired by Amazon for nearly $1 billion in 2014 and is currently used by more than 15 million people daily. He’s a former Y Combinator (startup accelerator) partner, and has invested in dozens of companies as an angel investor. Today he is the founder and CEO of Atrium, a legal startup for the modern age.

Guest

Justin Kan

Links:

• Twitter
• Instagram
• Website
• Atrium

Mentions

• • Twitch
  • Justin.tv
  • Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
  • Bullet Journaling

Transcript

The transcript for this episode will be available shortly.

Credits

Producer and Editor: Anna Eichenauer
Senior Producer: Bryan Landers
Additional audio mixing and mastering: Alfred ‘Rook‘ Hamilton
Additional production: Chacho Valadez
Executive producer: Arlan Hamilton

Music:

• https://soundcloud.com/jeff-kaale/the-art-of-cool
• https://soundcloud.com/jeff-kaale/sunday-afternoon
• https://soundcloud.com/jeff-kaale/pancakes
• https://soundcloud.com/jeff-kaale/hearts-flowers

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Jewel Burks Solomon is co-founder of Partpic, an Atlanta-based startup that was designed to streamline the purchase of maintenance and repair parts using computer vision technology. After Partpic was acquired by Amazon in 2016, Jewel became an angel investor and advisor to dozens of startups across the country. She is a native of Nashville, Tennessee and a graduate of Howard University.

Guest

Jewel Burks Solomon

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• Twitter
• Instagram
• Side Hustle Pro episode

Sponsor

This episode is sponsored by DigitalOcean. Apply for DigitalOcean Hatch here.

(To inquire about sponsoring the YFM podcast, please get in touch here.)

Mentions

• Nashlie Sephus, PhD

Transcript

The transcript for this episode will be available shortly.

Credits

Producer and Editor: Anna Eichenauer
Senior Producer: Bryan Landers
Additional audio mixing and mastering: Alfred ‘Rook‘ Hamilton
Additional production: Chacho Valadez
Executive producer: Arlan Hamilton

Music:

• https://soundcloud.com/jeff-kaale/the-art-of-cool
• https://soundcloud.com/jeff-kaale/sunday-afternoon
• https://soundcloud.com/jeff-kaale/pancakes
• https://soundcloud.com/jeff-kaale/hearts-flowers

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Keith Wasserman is the co-founder of Gelt, a Los Angeles-based investment firm that acquires, manages and re-positions real estate investments. Since 2008, Gelt has acquired over 10,000 units, starting with their first acquisition of 4 units. These properties are worth more than $1 billion collectively.

Guest

Keith Wasserman

Links:

• Twitter
• Gelt

Sponsor

This episode is sponsored by DigitalOcean. Apply for DigitalOcean Hatch here.

(To inquire about sponsoring the YFM podcast, please get in touch here.)

Mentions

• You First Million Episode 3 with Liz-Fong Jones

Transcript

The transcript for this episode will be available shortly.

Credits

Producer and Editor: Anna Eichenauer
Senior Producer: Bryan Landers
Additional audio mixing and mastering: Alfred ‘Rook‘ Hamilton
Additional production: Chacho Valadez
Executive producer: Arlan Hamilton

Music:

• https://soundcloud.com/jeff-kaale/the-art-of-cool
• https://soundcloud.com/jeff-kaale/sunday-afternoon
• https://soundcloud.com/jeff-kaale/pancakes
• https://soundcloud.com/jeff-kaale/hearts-flowers