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EP 112: He Quit Google Now Serial Entrepreneur

2015/11/16
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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

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3 Key Points:

  • Understand your customer pain points and alleviate them—it’s the quickest way to success.

  • Know your growth story and paint the vision.

  • Don’t waste a moment in a day—once time ticks past, it’s gone forever.

Time Stamped Show Notes:

  • 01:01 – Nathan’s introduction to today’s show

  • 01:55 – Ethan loves product because it’s all about understanding what the customer needs to make their life easier

  • 02:28 – What it’s like working at Google and why Ethan left

  • 03:55 – The Google video team was floored when YouTube was bought

  • 04:55 – The story behind Red Beacon)

  • 07:00 – Red Beacon made money by taking a percentage of service provide bids

  • 08:15 – The problem with Red Beacon was an absence of usage frequency

  • 10:15 – Companies don’t get sold, they get bought

  • 11:30 – The original concept of MyTime was to become the Amazon of local services

  • 12:45 – MyTime Marketplace gets 1M visitors per month

  • 13:50 – 2/3 business still use pen and paper

  • 15:20 – Time is precious—once it’s gone, it’s gone

  • 16:10 – MyTime is a multimillion dollar business with the potential to become a billion dollar business

  • 17:00 – MyTime rolls with a churn rate that’s less than 10% per month

  • 18:24 – Be able to tell the growth story and paint the vision to investors

  • 19:30 – www.MyTime.com) @Ethan_Anderson)

  • 20:24 – Famous Five