NOW
What I'm Doing Now
GUS
Gus is a one-time payment online store SaaS startup. I am sick of all these subscription models. It is greedy, especially in the entrepreneurial space. At Stan, we knew that a majority of our creators never made a sale. And those that did would take about six months to get their first one. That's a long time. On the pro plan, that would cost them $600. Plus, six months of rent, groceries, insurance, etc. Entrepreneurs can't thrive with that. So I'm changing it.
DIME BOX
Game Stop changed the way individual traders could (and should) view investing. Instead of trying to compete with massive hedge funds and the quants of Wall Street, individual traders should be focused on how they can plug into the culture to find obscure trades with high social fluency. There are signs of social fluency, and when it blends with a stock (or crypto), the financial rewards are astronomical. Dime Box is taking advantage of these new digital black swan events.
ALONE
I am writing a book for middle school-age kids that is a combination of Hatchet and the documentary "Alone Across the Arctic." It features a fourteen-year-old explorer taking on a 1,000-mile solo trek across the Canadian Arctic in order to save the wild while some of it still remains. More on this soon.
THE ACT
Advertising today is everything. Actually, advertising today is an act. Mike Tyson and Jake Paul were acts. Tesla's Cybertruck racing a Porshe was an act. My next nonfiction book will be about how advertising has transitioned from TV to social media and to an act that, if done right, can have massive rewards.