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Someone asked me for advice on building a business. I think it really just comes down to this: Consistency and iteration. It doesn't matter if you want to trade memecoins, start a window cleaning business, build an app, dropship, or run an agency. The underlying process is the same. Find someone who is already successful at what you want to do. Use them as proof of concept. Study what they're doing. Form a hypothesis about why it works, test that hypothesis yourself, analyze the results, and iterate. This process is completely business agnostic. Focus on inputs, not outputs. Instead of obsessing over making $10K/month, ask yourself what you need to do every day to get there. Measure your performance based on whether you're consistently executing those tasks, not whether you've reached $10K yet. Once you've executed, look at the resulting data. What worked? What didn't? What needs to change? Then repeat. You can't directly control your outputs, but you can control your inputs. If you're consistently learning from the results and improving your inputs, eventually the outputs will catch up. It's really that simple.

You can build a $1M/month business. You can become worth $10M. You can travel anywhere, buy beautiful things, and experience extraordinary opportunities. But you still have a finite amount of time to experience all of it.

Apple banned me on May 14, 2026. I was doing $500K+ ARR. At the time, I thought it was the worst thing that could happen to my business. I had to start over. New platform. New funnel. New marketing strategy. 147 days later: $102K MRR. $1.2M+ ARR. Solo founder. Fully bootstrapped. All on Stripe. Turns out getting banned was the best thing that ever happened to my business. Oh, and Stripe's ~2.9% fee beats Apple's 30%. Thanks, Apple. Ask me anything in the replies. I'll answer your questions. P.S. I'm looking to sell the business. I genuinely believe it can reach $1M/month, but I'm ready for my next chapter. DMs are open for serious buyers.

Happened to me as well. I was running “bloater ai”. Hit +$100K/mo. Apple banned me and refused to pay out remaining funds: ~$50K+ No response. No explanation. Nothing. Lost the money Apple owed me and I lost any money I could get from exiting the app. Apple sucks. But I’m back at +$100K/mo. Never give up, it’s part of the game.

Making 1M vs 1B is no different: Amass capital. Amass leverage. Avoid ruin. People get stuck on 2.

Someone recently asked me for advice on building a business and becoming successful. I thought I’d share my answer here too, in case it’s helpful to anyone else: The best business advice I can give: Focus on what you're naturally good at. I grew up coding and was always figuring out how to go viral online. Eventually I combined those two skills into a business. Then pick something you can stay obsessed with. Consistency matters more than grandiose goals. Everyone says they want to be successful. Very few people are willing to do the same thing, learn, improve, and show up every single day for years. I didn’t build a business around my life. I built my life around my business. That works for me because I genuinely love it. It feels like I’m playing on a playground. That makes me very hard to compete with, because I don’t plan on stopping. Ask yourself: What does the successful version of me look like? What are they doing every day that I’m not doing? Then find people already winning at what you want to do. Study them. Imitate what works. Whether it’s SaaS, ecommerce, real estate, TikTok Shop - whatever. Business is really just: Form a hypothesis. Test it. Look at the results. Iterate. Repeat. "Build your character and your character becomes your destiny" - naval The goal isn’t just to want success badly. It’s to want it badly enough that you keep learning, adapting, and showing up until you become very difficult to bet against.

When you do nothing. Contribute nothing. Build nothing. You’re already dead. You have no impact on your surroundings. You make no difference, dead or alive. Go do something.

There's always a best move and worst move.

Before you build an app you should know how you're going to market it based on proven viral formats.

When you know what to work on, you actually work less

Everyone says life is a playground. Everyone forgets there is no winning on a playground.

Aspirations > Desires

Are you more likely to convert at 29.99 or 31.99? This is exactly why you shouldn't let Apple auto localize your prices, do it yourself.

Instead of asking how to do it, ask why it works. Form a hypothesis. Test it. Learn. Iterate. That’s the game. You can figure out far more by yourself than you think.

Podcasts still make millionaires. So do apps. Saturation is just another word for competition. The best product/marketing still wins.

This guy is singlehandedly carrying my LTV...

The easiest way to answer 'does X matter?' in business is to limit test it. 'Do creatives matter when running ads?' Run a blank black image as your ad. Intuitively you know it would tank. There's your answer. Creatives matter. Take any question to its most extreme negative or positive and the answer becomes obvious. It won't tell you how much something matters, but it kills the debate on whether it matters at all.

Imagine if ChatGPT built a social graph the way Facebook builds friend suggestions. You mention that X did something. ChatGPT finds X through the network and associates that data with them. Person 1 fills in the blanks on Person 2 without Person 2 ever saying a word. Eventually it knows more about everyone than they know about themselves.