April 15, 2025

From making $6/week selling worms to making $110M+

From making $6/week selling worms to making $110M+

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Episode 697: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) sits down with James Currier ( https://x.com/JamesCurrier ) to talk about going from $0 to $110M through network effects. 

Show Notes: 

(0:00) $0 to $1.6B

(4:23) Your life on network effects

(8:00) Savage founders

(13:40) Speed

(15:49) The art of unlearning

(21:23) Technology window curves

(30:29) Network Vampire attacks

(37:37) Language first

(43:15) Tickle

(42:29) Finding a business bromance

(58:47) James isolation mistake

(1:01:27) Become an API

(1:05:02) AI business ideas

(1:16:07) What to do in your 20s

(1:22:18) One world currency

(1:32:16) Go to therapy


Links:

• NFX - https://www.nfx.com/ 


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