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How to build a billion dollar company with zero tech skills by “just” writing a better content
Tim Chen was 27 when he was fired and decided to start his own business. 12 years later it got $1B evaluation during the IPO.
Tim Chen had a bright future in front of him: a Stanford graduate, he immediately got a position in a hedge fund as a junior manager due to his degree in Finance.
Too bad, in just several months JP Morgan Chases trading business collapsed, and young promising graduates started being fired in dozens from every financial institution. Tim received his “farewell” notice right before Christmas. He had a little bit saved after 12 months of hustle for the fund, so he figured he’d “out-sit” the crisis — there was no way for a financial professional with less than 5 years of work experience to be hired in a decent company in the nearest future.
A 3-minutes task
Tim’s family decided to put his “out sitting” time to a proper use and started asking for his financial advice — he was a financial professional, after all. It was not something fancy, more like very routine questions: what find was more secure than the other? What credit card had better international transaction rates (his sister just landed on…
