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EYL #188 Black Owned Social Media Platform · Earn Your Leisure

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  Speaker 2: And so I tell people all the time, do you
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  Speaker 2: want a million followers or do you want a million
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  Speaker 2: dollars a million follow I know people with five, ten,
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  Speaker 2: fifteen million followers broke can't even pay their bills, but
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  Speaker 2: fifty thousand people paying you two dollars a month is
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  Speaker 2: one hundred grand a month, one point two million dollars
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  Speaker 2: a year. I know y'all heard about bad Baby, catch
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  Speaker 2: me outside. She made fifty five million dollars off OnlyFans, right,
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  Speaker 2: I said, she made fifty five million dollars off one
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  Speaker 2: hundred and sixty pieces of content. The next thing I
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  Speaker 2: did is I went to her Instagram page and there
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  Speaker 2: was no content on the page.
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  Speaker 3: It was like six posts. But I was like, see.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, she hit all her content because she
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  Speaker 2: knows she makes Instagram. Instagram doesn't make her. She's like,
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  Speaker 2: I have sixteen million followers. This serves me no purpose
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  Speaker 2: at all. So she archived all her content and she
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  Speaker 2: put a link tree and said you can stream my song,
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  Speaker 2: watch my music video, and come to my only fans.
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  Speaker 2: Because what is this sixteen million people doing for me.
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  Speaker 2: It's doing nothing. It's just a vanity number. It means
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  Speaker 2: absolutely no. What is good as having sixteen million follows
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  Speaker 2: so you can't use them?
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  Speaker 4: My graduates from my school being forced back drop drop
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  Speaker 5: All right, guys, welcome back, e y l South.
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  Speaker 6: This is gonna be a legendary episode, something that the
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  Speaker 6: public has asked for and something that we've been in
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  Speaker 6: communication for a long time.
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  Speaker 5: A lot of people they they lack patients. They're like,
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  Speaker 5: why don't you get fan based on I'm like, what
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  Speaker 5: we keep talking about. It's down. We are for the culture.
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  Speaker 5: Everything just has to happen in the right time.
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  Speaker 6: But you did do our guys ask cash is shows
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  Speaker 6: inside the whole, shout inside the vote.
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  Speaker 5: So Isaac Hayes the third.
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  Speaker 6: Legendary situation fandis this is something that if you're not
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  Speaker 6: familiar with it, we're gonna I'm gonna let you explain
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  Speaker 6: it because I don't want to do it any disservice.
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  Speaker 6: But it's a social media app that's designed for monetization.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah right, yeah, absolutely, And.
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  Speaker 6: It works similar to like a lot of the other
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  Speaker 6: social media apps where you can like interact with your photo,
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  Speaker 6: video stories, live live short form audio chat, audio chat.
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  Speaker 6: So it's like a combination of a lot of different
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  Speaker 6: social media.
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  Speaker 2: Apps, every media vertical you can think of subscription service
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  Speaker 2: in one.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: So we're gonna have no conversation.
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  Speaker 6: We're gonna talk about the process, your thought process that
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  Speaker 6: even developing the app, of course, raising money for the app,
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  Speaker 6: marketing the app, the business model where do you see
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  Speaker 6: it going?
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  Speaker 2: You know, the whole the whole gambit. But first and fall,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for joining us, appreciate it, Thank you guys
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  Speaker 2: for having me. This is like my favorite interview before
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  Speaker 2: it starts, my favorite before it's like everybody like, but
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  Speaker 2: I told people I was coming in there, like I
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  Speaker 2: want to come. I love those guys, you understand, like
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  Speaker 2: I watched earlierly, so this is the one showed that
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  Speaker 2: everybody I know watch it.
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  Speaker 7: So they got to make sure that they watched this one.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely the Holy g of financial absolutely.
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  Speaker 5: So all right, So where does it start?
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  Speaker 6: Obviously, if you didn't catch it by his name, his
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  Speaker 6: dad is Isaac Hayes, legendary vocalists and performer. So where
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  Speaker 6: did this start with you? You never wanted to go
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  Speaker 6: into music and followed your dad's footsteps. What made you
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  Speaker 6: wanted to be an entrepreneur in text based?
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  Speaker 2: So I was a producer, like I started producing in
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  Speaker 2: ninety nine, and then I decided that I wanted to
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  Speaker 2: license my music, and so I started licensing my music
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  Speaker 2: for television and film and did that for like ten
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  Speaker 2: or fifteen years. And after my dad passed, somebody my
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  Speaker 2: family wanted someone to run the estate, and so my
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  Speaker 2: family named me the manager of his estate.
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  Speaker 3: So I had been managing his estate.
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  Speaker 2: But while simultaneously, you know, like I said, A simultaneously
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  Speaker 2: licensing my music for TV and film. The idea to
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  Speaker 2: develop an app came out of left field, came out.
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  Speaker 2: It came from It came from my connection to Memphis, Tennessee.
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  Speaker 2: So I was born in Memphis, left Memphis at an
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  Speaker 2: early age and moved to Atlanta. But just me being
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  Speaker 2: on social media all the time, this young kid went
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  Speaker 2: viral for dancing in a Spider Man costume and a
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  Speaker 2: game stopping. He was from Memphis, and I just sent
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  Speaker 2: him a text message like a DM said congrats young
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  Speaker 2: Memphis and he immediately hit me back, was like, are
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  Speaker 2: you a manager? And I was like, well, I manage
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  Speaker 2: my dad to stay. He goes, I need a manager.
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  Speaker 2: I really need a manager. And this is back and
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  Speaker 2: forth of bus Well year was this twenty eighteen? It
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  Speaker 2: was Instagram. Yeah, sent him an Instagram DM. I'm saving Instagram.
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  Speaker 2: I'm saving the DM. So when this is the largest
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  Speaker 2: tech company in the world, I just people don't know
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  Speaker 2: that this is the moment that I came up with
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  Speaker 2: the idea.
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  Speaker 3: So it was March twenty eighteen.
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  Speaker 2: So anyway, I left that conversation like, Yo, this kid
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  Speaker 2: is like he don't know how to.
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  Speaker 3: Make no money and he doesn't own Spider Man.
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  Speaker 2: And whenever Marvel and Disney want to shut down him
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  Speaker 2: monetizing their property, they can.
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  Speaker 3: But people need to learn. People need to be able.
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  Speaker 2: To subscribe to him like you subscribe to like Netflix,
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  Speaker 2: and learn how to dance like him. If he wants
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  Speaker 2: to teach people to dances, he does, and charge people
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  Speaker 2: for those dances.
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  Speaker 3: And so that's when I was like, yo, we need that.
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  Speaker 2: And it was like and then only Fans was out
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  Speaker 2: at the same time, and I remember only fans, Yeah, legendary,
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  Speaker 2: and so I remember seeing I remember saying like, yo,
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  Speaker 2: when the strippers find out about this one?
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  Speaker 5: Oh so you you was on it before it became
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  Speaker 5: what it became.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, because because I because one of the things
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  Speaker 2: that I did, the first things I did when I
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  Speaker 2: thought of the name fan base, I trademarked it.
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  Speaker 3: So I hadn't built anything.
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  Speaker 2: I trademarked the name fan base in the in the
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  Speaker 2: form of an application that's downloaded with software for subscription
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  Speaker 2: based whatever.
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  Speaker 8: Very important Yeah, the details on how you trademarkets very important.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, you got to get the class and the
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  Speaker 2: territory and I did all that so because I don't
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  Speaker 2: ever want to take an idea to fruition and then
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  Speaker 2: not be able to fully execute it because a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people, you know, rappers have a name, can't use
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  Speaker 2: a name, right, somebody have a product, can't use the product.
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  Speaker 2: So I just know that from music like trademarket first
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  Speaker 2: and so then after trademarking the name, I just went
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  Speaker 2: ahead and like I said, was figuring out like only Fans,
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  Speaker 2: like all the other platforms out here that kind of
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  Speaker 2: did it. I was aware of Patreon. Patreon only Fans
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  Speaker 2: were the only two that I heard of. A matter
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  Speaker 2: of fact, Only Fans was called fans only. So I
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  Speaker 2: was like, okay, cool, and then I just knew that.
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  Speaker 2: But I said, we got to build something that's just
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  Speaker 2: straightforward for the community of people that are going to
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  Speaker 2: be able to monetize the content in the future.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: So, I mean creating a tough company obviously takes capital,
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  Speaker 8: and he did something very brilliant. Never signed a publishing
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  Speaker 8: deal when you were producing, right, and so you were
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  Speaker 8: able to license. The content that you were making was
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  Speaker 8: born in jail. So is that the basis or the
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  Speaker 8: foundation of where you got capital to create it?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, okay, And so being a pre do so I
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  Speaker 2: never did a public deal because my dad had terrible
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  Speaker 2: relationships with publishers. So I was able to go to
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  Speaker 2: my pro which are like being my ass cap, the
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  Speaker 2: performing rights people that collect your money and ask for
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  Speaker 2: a loan. And I asked for a loan of like
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  Speaker 2: one hundred thousand, and I got another one hundred thousand.
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  Speaker 2: I just I could pull from it whenever I wanted to.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the thing mailbox money is like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I say, you got to make money while you sleep.
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  Speaker 3: So that was a cool thing about me.
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  Speaker 2: It's like I'm watching Real Housewives and married to medicine
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  Speaker 2: and loving hip hop and my beats and playing NBAT
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  Speaker 2: be the All Star Game, Like I would hear my
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  Speaker 2: music all the time, and I just go to the
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  Speaker 2: mailbox and be a check for you know, twenty thousand whatever,
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  Speaker 2: fifty thousand, you know, every quarter. So I'm like, okay, cool.
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  Speaker 2: So when I came up with the idea, I was like, well,
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  Speaker 2: let me just pull from this. I'm you know, when
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  Speaker 2: I started managing my dad's the state, I said, just
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  Speaker 2: take care of my expenses. I don't want to take
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  Speaker 2: no salary. So I just had capital to be able
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  Speaker 2: to build that.
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  Speaker 5: So talk about the loan. How did that work?
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  Speaker 6: So you took a loan from the record companies and
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  Speaker 6: then they recouped.
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  Speaker 2: That from my pr Yeah, they recoup it from from
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  Speaker 2: what's paid so as ay.
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  Speaker 3: So it's it's not like a year.
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  Speaker 2: You probably get paid like a year after, like nine
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  Speaker 2: months after something airs. So whenever your song is played
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  Speaker 2: on the radio or it is on a television show
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  Speaker 2: or a movie, about nine months after it airs is
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  Speaker 2: when you actually get the money for it.
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  Speaker 5: That's like it's out the ghost face. He said. Waiting
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  Speaker 5: on these royalties take too long. It's like waiting on babies.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, yeah, so that's when you So when you
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  Speaker 2: when your joint hit, you know, you got nine months
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  Speaker 2: before you get the check. So that's a long it's
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  Speaker 2: a long gap. So yeah, I was able to just
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  Speaker 2: you know, take in advance.
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  Speaker 5: And then they charge like a percentage.
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  Speaker 2: Of no, because it's not it's not a publishing deal.
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  Speaker 2: It's just the money I was gonna get paid anyway.
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  Speaker 2: It's just they just keep collecting it till it comes back.
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  Speaker 2: So you spoke about your dad's a state. That's I
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  Speaker 2: mean that's pretty expensive catalog, Yes, especially in music. I
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  Speaker 2: know he did voiceovers even in.
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  Speaker 8: South Park, right, it's so so like, I mean, you're
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  Speaker 8: into music at the time, but managing the state is
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  Speaker 8: a totally different thing.
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  Speaker 7: So where did you like figure out the skills to
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  Speaker 7: manage that.
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  Speaker 2: So most of it, most of managing the state revolves
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  Speaker 2: or my dad to say, will revolve around publishing and
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  Speaker 2: masters and so I've been doing that. So it's like
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  Speaker 2: you want to license his name it was in likeness
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  Speaker 2: or a song or anything like that. That's that's very,
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  Speaker 2: very simple. So it wasn't a hard thing to do.
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  Speaker 2: The only thing the only hard thing to do is
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  Speaker 2: probably is expand the brand, and you need relationships to
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  Speaker 2: do that. But I also have and my family has
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  Speaker 2: hated me for this for a long time because I
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  Speaker 2: told him it's going to take a long time for
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  Speaker 2: us to be in position because as a songwriter, you know,
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  Speaker 2: my dad's copyrights have been owned by other people, just
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  Speaker 2: for the for the way that publishing deals were done
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  Speaker 2: in his era. So when you wrote a song in
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  Speaker 2: my dad's era, the publisher would actually have ownership of
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  Speaker 2: the copyright for fifty six years. So then so even
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  Speaker 2: my dad never got to see his copyrights back returning
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  Speaker 2: his lifetime. So the songs that he wrote in nineteen
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  Speaker 2: sixty three just started coming back a couple of years ago.
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  Speaker 2: And so one of the biggest songs that he ever
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  Speaker 2: wrote before even became an artist, as a song by
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  Speaker 2: Sam and Day call hold On I'm Coming. So I
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  Speaker 2: know people hear that dum.
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  Speaker 7: Du hold I'm coming.
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  Speaker 2: So he wrote that song. So we wrote, yeah, him
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  Speaker 2: and David Porter. So we just got that song back
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  Speaker 2: like last month. And even since we did that, like
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  Speaker 2: it's already like licenses coming in. But think about like
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  Speaker 2: how many how much money has been made off that record,
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  Speaker 2: and then think of all this sampling and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 3: So again, yeah, I.
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  Speaker 8: Feel like once I heard that, you made me think
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  Speaker 8: of Malcolm Nuts in the movie, like when he's at
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  Speaker 8: the whole.
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  Speaker 3: That's the song that's playing everything. And listen, there was crazy.
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  Speaker 2: There were songs they used, they used hold on them
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  Speaker 2: And this is the crazy thing because the publishers are
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  Speaker 2: trying to get us to do new deals, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: like the numbers that they were sending us. Was like, na, man,
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  Speaker 2: there's there's no way you can offer us this. If
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  Speaker 2: I say they offered us like two million, right, I
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  Speaker 2: was liked. I just heard this song on an oil
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  Speaker 2: cookie commercial for Christmas.
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  Speaker 3: They played it.
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  Speaker 2: When the Lakers won the championship, they played it. They
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  Speaker 2: had a Toyota truck commercial. It's a bunch of different,
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  Speaker 2: you know, different commercials that I hear in it. That's publishing,
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  Speaker 2: so it doesn't matter who does the song. So I
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  Speaker 2: was like, Nah, y'all not feeling Offersta and we have.
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  Speaker 2: We haven't even gotten to his artist catalog where even
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  Speaker 2: in his songwriting catalog, everybody is sampled. My dad, like
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  Speaker 2: I always say, James Brown is the most sampled artists
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  Speaker 2: of all time, right, but Isaac Hayes, there's not a
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  Speaker 2: Every iconic rapper has an Isaac's song that you know
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  Speaker 2: that's an Isaaca sample. And I'd be like, so Warning
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  Speaker 2: by Biggie is Isaac's Can I Live by Jay z As,
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  Speaker 2: Isaac Kay's Creamed by Wu Tang Clan is Isaaca's Me
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  Speaker 2: Against the World by Tupac is Isaacay's Shimmy Shimmy y'ah.
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  Speaker 2: A bout old dirty Bastard is Isaac's explosive by Doctor
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  Speaker 2: Dre is Isaac's. So it's like you can't think of one,
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  Speaker 2: Like there's not any of the icons, right, you know
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  Speaker 2: what I'm saying classic, Let's.
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  Speaker 9: Just right the sample or the lyric, the sample, the musical.
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  Speaker 9: So he produced the record, He wrote and produced. He wrote, Yeah,
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  Speaker 9: the writer and producer and artist.
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  Speaker 2: So he was a songwriter first and then he became
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  Speaker 2: an artist because Otis Redding died and then Sam and
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  Speaker 2: Dave got they got taken back. They were on loan
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  Speaker 2: from Atlantic and it was a bad deal with Stacks,
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  Speaker 2: so they had no artists, so they had to rebuild
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  Speaker 2: their catalog and they asked everybody to do an album.
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  Speaker 2: They had like twenty nine. They had twenty eight artists
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  Speaker 2: and they needed twenty nine. It's called the Soul Explosion,
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  Speaker 2: and they said we need you to do an album
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  Speaker 2: and he was like, okay, but y'all did an album
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  Speaker 2: on we before and it was some bullshit. So if
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  Speaker 2: I do an album this time, you got to let
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  Speaker 2: me do it the way I want to do it.
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  Speaker 3: And that album was Hot Buttered Soul.
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  Speaker 2: So that's the album where you know he did walk
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  Speaker 2: on By and it's like the first time you ever
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  Speaker 2: heard like soul artists and orchestra's merge or organs and
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  Speaker 2: bass and all that stuff together with orchestras and stuff.
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  Speaker 3: So like that.
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  Speaker 2: He even had to go to Detroit to record the
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  Speaker 2: strings because there were no people that can play strings
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  Speaker 2: in Memphis. So imagine going to like Motown to put
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  Speaker 2: your sound with they sound and come back. And really,
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  Speaker 2: I always state my dad is the inventor of modern
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  Speaker 2: day R and B because you can't imagine R and
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  Speaker 2: B without flutes and strings.
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  Speaker 3: And you think of marriag jr. Blige when you think
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  Speaker 3: of like.
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  Speaker 2: Mask off by Future or whatever when you hear flutes
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  Speaker 2: and hip hop is like Isaca is the first person
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  Speaker 2: to put flutes and strings on top of like organs
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  Speaker 2: and gritty guitars and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 8: So when the publisher companies are coming at you now,
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  Speaker 8: are they now trying to renew the deals? Obviously fifty
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  Speaker 8: six years not gonna happen in this dayage, but are
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  Speaker 8: they doing like short term leases on the content is.
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  Speaker 2: Five years ironically, and this will go this, This will
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  Speaker 2: transition a lot into tech. What they're doing now, they're
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  Speaker 2: trying to buy catalogs, and I know you hear all
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  Speaker 2: the time people are buying catalogs, right, And I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: why these people selling their catalogs? It doesn't make sense
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  Speaker 2: to me because I understand the value of the music.
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  Speaker 2: And so I tell I think about this, and I say, well,
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  Speaker 2: how many people on Earth have a smartphone? And it's
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  Speaker 2: like six point three billion people with smartphones? Right, And
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  Speaker 2: I'll ask you, guys, this question aize people all the time. So,
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  Speaker 2: of six point three billion people on smartphones, how many
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  Speaker 2: people do you think have music streaming services on their phone?
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  Speaker 2: Like Apple Music, Spotify and Title in the millions or billions?
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  Speaker 2: How many people would you think of six point three
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  Speaker 2: business this point three? I say four billion? Cool, what
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  Speaker 2: do you think?
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  Speaker 5: Three billion?
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: Okay, no, it's five hundred twenty five million people. It's
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: so it's left so seven percent of the available market
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: of people that could have a music streaming service on
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: their phone have it. So in my mind, I'm like
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: they said, by twenty thirty, it'll be like a billion
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: people on streaming services. So in the next eight years,
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: the streaming revenue is gonna double or triple, So why
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: are you I wouldn't sell shit? And it's the same
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: thing for Netflix. It's only two hundred and twenty two
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: million people that have Netflix out of six point three
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: billion people with the device that could have Netflix on it.
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: So I'm like, oh, content is gonna be like the thing.
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: And so when I talk about when I mentioned the
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: fan base, the reason why I think that's important because
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: I believe that person to person subscription is going to
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: outpace platforms like Netflix because anybody that I know has Netflix.
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: They watch a Netflix or a Hulu for one or
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: two shows, but there's like thousands of pieces of content
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: on there. So in the future, why wouldn't I just
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: subscribe directly to the brand or the person that I
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: really like their content from as opposed to paying this
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: twenty five twenty dollars a month with commercials too shows
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: for stuff that I don't really like. But if I
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: really rock with like you know, Cardi B, then I'll
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: just subscribe to her. If I really rock with this
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: particular brand, and I'll subscribe directly to them or that
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: person or you guys like you guys just like okay,
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: then I'll just subscribe directly to y'all, and you guys
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: get all the revenue. You own the content, and you
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: make the and you call the shots.
• 16:51
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  Speaker 6: So, all right, so let's get into this conversation off
• 18:16
  Speaker 6: fan base. What's the first steps that you took to
• 18:19
  Speaker 6: get the company off the ground and how much money
• 18:22
  Speaker 6: was it actually to actually get the company off the ground.
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: So do you don't have a tech background? Right?
• 18:26
  Speaker 7: No?
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: All right?
• 18:27
  Speaker 6: So you have an idea, but you don't necessarily know
• 18:29
  Speaker 6: how to actually go about it. So what's the first
• 18:31
  Speaker 6: thing that you did to actually get an app? Because
• 18:34
  Speaker 6: a lot of people have ideas about app they don't
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: even know how to go about it.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I think I educated myself through mentors.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: So there's my three mentors and tech immediately, Joel Berk's
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: Barry Gibbings and Justin Dawkins, and so the three of
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: them have a company called Collapse Capital. So Jewel Berks
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: had a company called part Pick that she saw the
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: Amazon and exited. And Barry Gibbons had a vent a startup,
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: a tech startup, and Justin is their partner, and they
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: have a company called Collab Capital where they invest in people.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: So I went to them and I met them at
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: the gathering spot in Atlanta, Georgia where everybody comes together
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: and meets and has great ideas. And I got to pick. Yeah,
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: so I got to I got to pick their brains.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: And they were more than gracious to just give me
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: the information about you know, you know, how much should
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: a CTO have, what kind of equity like to the
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: other this idea which you're gonna build, You need an MVP.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: So I was just learning, you need a deck, you
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: need you know, you need a proof of concept.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: So they're okay, okay, okay.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: So I just had all that information and I just
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: started researching and then I'm kind of one of those
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: kind of do it do it off, I need to
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: do it all type of people. So even the deck,
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: like I had somebody, they gave me somebody that builds decks,
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: but I said, send me the deck in Keynote and
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: then I just started clicking buttons and I built my
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: deck and learned how to use Keynote. Now, so now
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: I'm a keynote whiz. So I'm the kind of person
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: that is just figure it out on my own if
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: I need to. And I'm a produce, so I know
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: what it's I know what the app is supposed to
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: look like, what it's supposed to feel like, what the
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: buttons are supposed to do.
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: All I need I need.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: I know what the colors are supposed to be, so
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: all I need is somebody to build it. So that
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: was the part that was very very.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: Hard for me. Yeah, it was. It was. It was
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: a challenge.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: But again, and I had somebody that was working with
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: me on this, which is really weird. It was this
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: young lady that was working with me on the app
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: and she was kind of like guiding me through it.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: But then she just disappeared and I was like, Okay,
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: now I'm really out here, like I'm dolo. So my
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: attorney at the time introduced me to my now CTO
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: and and he built the app. Very talented god by
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: the name of Romero Cannavas. That's like my guy, my
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: right hand and what we do at fan Base couldn't
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: build it without them, And so we just started the
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: process of putting together the early stages of what fan
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: Base would be.
• 20:54
  Speaker 8: So when you meet him and you're putting the plants together,
• 20:57
  Speaker 8: how long before the actual completion of the idea.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: So it's about six months.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: So we built it from We built the MVP from
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: like July to December.
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: MVP middle viable products, And that's just like.
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: The most important things that need to be part of
• 21:14
  Speaker 6: the situation.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because so typically, and this comes from people in
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: black tech, is like we don't get to write our
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: ideas down on a napkin and slide it over to
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: somebody say okay, I'll fund that for twenty million dollars,
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: because because along the way, you know, I would hear
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: from from other people in tech and say, man, like
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: these dudes got twenty million dollars and spend all the
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: money on some other bullshit and never even built an MVP,
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: never built a prototype. They just take the money and
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: trick it off or do something like that, and they're
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: not They're not black. R we don't get we don't
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: get you know, we get to you know, we don't
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: get a nap. We have to prove ourselves be on
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: a shadow of a doubt. So I knew, Okay, I'm
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: gonna have to make something that like, Okay, this shit
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: really really works and once people have those light bulb moments, right,
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: And I'm gracious enough in building a platform that I
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: know that because I hated every social media platform that
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: came out except for Instagram. I was hated all on
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: my thought, and I mean not dislike them. I hated
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: on them, like oh, this is stupid. Like first time
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: I saw first time I saw MySpace, I was like.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: That's done. And I was like, oh, and I was
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: on Facebook, that's done. I was like oh.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: And I saw Twitter and I was like I got
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: on Twitter and oh eight nobody was on there. And
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: I left and then I came back like the end
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: of O nine, and I thought about it. I was like, Oh,
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: this is going to be the news before the news,
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: so somebody get to shooting. This is how I think
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: somebody get to shooting. It'll be on Twitter before the news.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: Even though they were shooting at the club. And that's
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: kind of what you see now. I checked Twitter. Twitter
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: is my news before anything, so that's you know, I
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: knew that. So and then Instagram is the only one
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: that I got because I said, this is going to
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: kill the website.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: So websites are done.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: I haven't been to a website in ten years because
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: I can see TMZ and ESPN and you know, some
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: funny comedians and all this kind of stuff all at
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: the same time. So I just knew that that was
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: what the future of social media is gonna be. So
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: that's what that's what led me to thinking about fan base.
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: So all right, so you get the CTO, he builds it.
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: You hadn't mentioned the equity, So did you give him
• 23:17
  Speaker 6: equity as opposed to paying him or so.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: So the first thing, and this is when I knew
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: I was onto something. I paid them directly right just
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: to build it. But I made sure that on the code.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: How was it to cost the building It costs like
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: two hundred thous what costs initially about one hundred thousand
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: to build it just to do that, And and the
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: fact that if this was done in the state, it
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: probably would have cost me like three I couldn't have
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: built this in America because it's the time and the
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: resources it takes the building. It probably would have taken
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: me like three hundred and fifty grand to build it,
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: because that's just how much. You know, if you get
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: somebody because you hear it, you hear a lot of
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: people say, oh, I'm gonna go to India.
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: We did that. Yeah, yeah, we so we had not
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: to cut you off.
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: But we had an app that he was building for DJs,
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: and we realiz that it was going to cost like
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: five hundred thousand buildings in America, but in India except
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: they said we can get it done for like fifty
• 24:07
  Speaker 6: thousand man, so we ended up paying You paid one
• 24:13
  Speaker 6: guy like twenty thousand. Yeah, we paid him like twenty
• 24:16
  Speaker 6: thousand and eight. They it was terrible, you know, telling
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: was wrong, it didn't work properly, everything was bad, and
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: they after a while they stopped answering. Then they went
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: on holiday, which you found out the holidays is like
• 24:28
  Speaker 6: three weeks.
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: And then we hired another Indian to go find.
• 24:32
  Speaker 6: This the guy in India, Yeah, he was in the jungle,
• 24:35
  Speaker 6: and paid him like five thousand.
• 24:36
  Speaker 8: Right, we paid a flight for him. So the next
• 24:39
  Speaker 8: thing he tried to find was in the jungle. So
• 24:41
  Speaker 8: then we paid it his flight to go find him.
• 24:43
  Speaker 8: But he end never ran.
• 24:45
  Speaker 6: Off on He ran off on this so we got
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: burnt pretty bad. We lost about thirty thousand dollars.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: Yeah, never got any kind of proble.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: Mean, And what I tell people about when I tell
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: people about India, it's not a knock to get India,
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: it's it's on the other side of the plane. So
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: the times is off. Argentina is just like an hour head.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: And Argentina is just like they hungry, like they like yo,
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: we can cold, just as good as Facebook and all
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: these major corporations and so and it was just fortunate
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: that Ramiro lives in Atlanta, so his company is based
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: here in Atlanta. So equity was not a part of
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: the conversation. It was built. And then what he did,
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: and this is this is when I said, Okay, I
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: got something here. Because they had been in business for
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: about ten years or so already, and he said, we
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: want to invest in this. This is the first this
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: is the first app that we've ever been a part of.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: And they've built stuff for the CDC and Taco Bell
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: and all these other companies and a lot of startups
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: to come through their doors and they've built stuff and
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: gone along. But it was like, nah, we want to
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: we want to be a part of this because we
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: rock with you and we think this is like what
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: the future is about. And I said, okay, I'm on
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: this something because and it was great because then I
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: had him. And this is a lesson that I learned
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: and had to know is if you're going to raise capital,
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: you're going to have to have a ct because if
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: you because if nobody's gonna give you money, if the
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: person that is gonna build they can just pick up
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: and leave.
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: The technology officers, yeah.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: They have to have some skin in the game that
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: they're attached to the product just as much as you.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: So you guys are in it together, so that they
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: just look at like they don't take it as a check, like, oh,
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: here's a check, here's your app. Because then when you
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: go to raise money, somebod's gonna ask you we who's
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: gonna help you build this? And if you don't have
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: a CTO, you have to get one. So people, and
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: those are the things that I learned from Jewel and
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: Barry and justin like you got to have a CTO,
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: they have to own part of the company, you know.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: And so that's the that's the situation that arose because
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: it makes me best just feel comfortable.
• 26:38
  Speaker 8: Was that the first time, as you were obviously finding
• 26:40
  Speaker 8: Romero he's building it. Is this the first time you're thinking,
• 26:43
  Speaker 8: all right, this is my company, I'm gonna allow other
• 26:46
  Speaker 8: people to have shares in this equity In the situation.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: No, so we were still we were still going to
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: go the route. Initially, I just left it alone because
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: I didn't want anybody to know that I was attached
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: to it, because of the stigma that.
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: That Unfortunately.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: When my companies, Yeah, when white people build something, it's
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: a perceived it's for all people. But when black people
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: build something, it's perceived it's only for black people. And
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: fan base, its fan base is for every single user
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: on the planet. So I just wanted to stay as
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: far away as I possibly could. So I did that,
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: and I wanted a proof of concept without without corrupting
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: the data. So I didn't tell anybody I built it.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: I didn't tell nobody to use it. I just want
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: to see if I put it out there with somebody
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: use it and make money, and people did, and in
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: a year we got to about ten thousand users and
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: a couple of users made four grand, six grand. I said, Okay,
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: now I can walk into a room and say I
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: didn't tell nobody, I didn't pay nobody to talk about this.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: I didn't spend any money on marketing that someone could
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: actually use the platform and do that. And so that
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: I had one VC call and it's still kind of
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: rub me the wrong way, like you're supposed to like
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: you're supposed to be like, Okay, here's the money to
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: do this, And it didn't work out that way. And
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: then covid just came down like a hammer, and we
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: was all inside.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: What was that feeling like?
• 28:09
  Speaker 8: Right, you had the idea, you built it, you don't
• 28:12
  Speaker 8: tell anybody's all word of mouth. What's that feeling like?
• 28:14
  Speaker 8: Because every time we tell people like celebrate all the ones. Right,
• 28:18
  Speaker 8: once you start seeing people making money on your idea,
• 28:20
  Speaker 8: what's the feeling like at that time for you?
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: It was enormous because I just because in my mind
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: the calculations I'm learning about, like Okay, how much can
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: you scale this? How far can this idea go? That
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: every single person on the planet has the ability to
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: turn themselves into their own business because that's what you're doing.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: You're democratizing access to distribution for every single user on
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: the planet. And that's enormous for brands and every single person.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: And when I think of our competitors out there, I
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: don't like when people talk about fan base, they say
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: it's fan base for content creators or artists or musicians,
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: and they isolated and platforms the other the other platforms
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: tend to do that they call the user a content creator,
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: when in truth, we're all content creators. Every single person
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: on social media's creating content. If you're commenting, posting, you're
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: posting once a year, one hundred times a day, we're
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: all content creators. And so that that made me feel,
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: you know, really good, because now the sky's the limit.
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: So let me ask you this, as far as the app,
• 29:25
  Speaker 6: can you just explain every single aspect of the app
• 29:29
  Speaker 6: and details where you can give like a a perspective
• 29:32
  Speaker 6: of people that might not be familiar with it.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: Well, okay, yeah, So so fan base is photo, video,
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: livestream and audio and long form content that's monetizable for
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: every single user on the planet, so you can have
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: so you can it's free to dol, free to use.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: But you can also simultaneously have subscribers at the same time,
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: so you can have follower you have one hundred thousand
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: subscribers and one hundred thousand followers and twenty thousand subscribers
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: and they be on the exact same page. It's just
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: the content that you deem for subscribers only they can
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: see and it's paywall or they can unlock it, and
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: then the free stuff is for everybody else like all
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: the other social media platforms.
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: How much is it.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: It's like it's four ninety nine a month per person
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: you subscribe to.
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: So per person subscribe to. So if I subscribe to.
• 30:24
  Speaker 6: Little Wing, I'm paying five dollars. If I subscribe to
• 30:27
  Speaker 6: Earn your Legion, I'm paying five dollars.
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: If every single time it's a five dollars yall, we
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: couldn't do that.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: And this is important to say because I know that
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: the conversation of subscriptions has become so mainstream the last
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: two or three years. Fan Base was the first native
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: application to allow a user to have a follower and
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: a subscriber at the same time, and the reason I
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: know we were first because Apple wouldn't let us do it.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: And that's the crazy part about it. So when you
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: when you subscribe it like Spotify or or Netflix or
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: whatever it is, you create something called a subscription profile
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: on Apple, right, And so we went to Apple said
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: we want to make an app that allows you to
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: subscribe to whoever you want to subscribe to, and they
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: were like no, because if one person subscribed to fifty people,
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: that's fifty subscription profiles we have to keep up with.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: They were like, we're not letting y'all do that. So initially,
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: what we did is allow users to subscribe to one person,
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: three people, or five people, so each one of those
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: is an individual subscription profile that only Apple has to
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: keep up with.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: But you get five people for one profile.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: So fast forward to Instagram aligned subscriptions.
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: And I was like, wait a minute.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: I was like, that means Apples changed it their way
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: because now you can subscribe to whoever you want to
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: on Instagram and I was like, that didn't exist before
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: we did it. And I remember Rameiro saying, that's a
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: good thing because you're cause that means you're doing something
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: that nobody's been done. Whenever you run into a barrier
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: in tech, that means oh, nobody's done it. But he's like,
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: but we can work our way around that. And that
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: was the workaround we came up with.
• 31:58
  Speaker 8: So when they're creating content, content creators, everybody is right,
• 32:02
  Speaker 8: I know, especially like on Instagram you have five hundred
• 32:06
  Speaker 8: thousand followers, a million followers, Not everybody sees that content.
• 32:11
  Speaker 7: What's that like for fanbase?
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 32:12
  Speaker 8: Is it the same out Like everybody that follows me
• 32:14
  Speaker 8: will be updated on what I'm doing. Yeah, it doesn't
• 32:17
  Speaker 8: matter if I'm free or subscription. I'ld still be something
• 32:20
  Speaker 8: that could be unlocked it from subscription.
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: You know, it doesn't matter.
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter because that that is the goal is
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: for us to allow anybody to make as much money
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: as it possibly can.
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: So on current social media platforms like Instagram, and I'm
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: very critical of that. Instagram was fun until about twenty fourteen, right,
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: and that's when they started running ads, and so because
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: you would go viral, you could wind up with a
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: million followers in a day.
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: It was popping.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: Somebody might say something, you know, go viral and it's like, yo,
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: I got like three hundred thousand followers in a day. Right,
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: It doesn't work that way anymore. That's because Instagram and
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: Facebook are built around advertising, and so I tell people
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: all the time, and people are like, I never thought
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: of that. I was like, why would Instagram you reach
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: a million people? When they charge people to reach a
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: million people? So they can't do that. Right, If you
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: go to your iPhone right now, try to boost your
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: posts on Instagram. It'll take you ten thousand dollars to
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: reach the minimum of a million people, and you may
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: or may not reach those people. Right, So if you
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: got twenty million followers, you think that every time you
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: post a photo, Instagram's gonna send that to twenty million
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: people if you could do that every single time. And
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: what I said before was it was cool when it
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: was just text and photo. Once video gets involved, now
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: you're a network, you know, Like I say, eighteen million
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: people watch Sunday Night football during football season. NBC charges
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: eight hundred and sixty thousand dollars for a thirty second spot.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: So if you could post a video on Instagram and
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: it reached eighteen million people, you catch charge eight hundred
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: and sixty thousand dollars every time you did that. But
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: guess what happens. The brands would come and pay you
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: and not pay Instagram. So for that very reason, they
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: have to limit the amount of people that see your
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: content so they can make money. You still get engage,
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: but it's about three to four percent of your following,
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: but it's not the one hundred percent. So on fan base,
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: we want everybody to see your content. I mean, Beyonce
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: got two hundred and thirty one million followers.
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: She cheat.
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: You could charge ten million of posts and never work again,
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: like ten million here, ten millionaire. They're not doing that.
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: If you go to Beyonce's page right now and click
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: on the video portion of her page, her videos have
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: like three four million views, five million views max. May
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: other ones that go viral because it went viral, so
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: might have eleven million, eighteen million, But most of the
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: videos are like three to four million, which is like
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: three or four percent.
• 34:31
  Speaker 5: So let's talk about this algorithm. What is an algorithm?
• 34:35
  Speaker 6: Because every social media, every single one of them, has
• 34:38
  Speaker 6: an algorithm to TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, to Instagram. My understanding
• 34:44
  Speaker 6: is that as the apps get bigger, the algorithm is
• 34:48
  Speaker 6: needed because it filters out who they think would be
• 34:52
  Speaker 6: more engaged with it and it's easier to navigate as
• 34:55
  Speaker 6: opposed to like just getting it to every single person. Yeah,
• 34:59
  Speaker 6: that may be true, that may not be true. Does
• 35:01
  Speaker 6: your app have an algorithm and what is it? What
• 35:06
  Speaker 6: is the actual purpose of algorithm because everybody's heard the term,
• 35:09
  Speaker 6: but I don't think a lot of people actually fully
• 35:10
  Speaker 6: understand album.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: Well the purpose of algorithms. They can serve many purposes.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: One is to actually moderate content, right, So content moderation
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: is key.
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: In the early days of social media.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: You might see someone that you might someone might be
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: able to post a hashtag that says like big booty bitches, right,
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: and it's like, okay, it's vulgar, but people might go viral.
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: But you don't want brands and people to get on
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: your platform and see big booty bitches. So the algorithm
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: might see that and be like, if it has big
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: booty bitches in the hashtag, then we're gonna hide that content.
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: A suppressor or there's algorithms, there's there's content moderation that
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: actually recognizes big booty and then they be like, yeah, demographics, right,
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: but it actually can there's actually algorithms and and and
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: stuff that can actually recognize the human form, right, so
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: let's say, oh, this is new. So because to manually
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: moderate content it's too expensive. You can't do it, especially
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: on a platform that has billions of people, because when
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: you're talking about eight ten billion pieces of content today
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: and you can't have people looking like, is that a nipple?
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: Is that a shadow of a nipple? We ain't got
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: time for all that shit.
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: So so algorithms are designed to take a lot of
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: the human workload off of what's being done. They're also
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: designed to help boost visibility of content or make the
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: content more engaging for the benefit of the business. So
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: the TikTok algorithm is very, very simple. It really is
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: based off how long you hover on a piece of
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: content and if you rewatch it. So if you hover
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: on a piece of content that's about like dogs and cats,
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: then the algorithm will serve you another piece of content,
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: you know, ten fifteen pieces later and see what you do.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: And if you hover on that one and rewatch it,
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: then they say, Okay, we think they like pet videos,
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: so we'll start sending them more pet videos. But the
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: problem is if the video is about suicide or you know,
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: conspiracy theories, then the algorithm. It is just an algorithm
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: still doesn't know, but it'll start sending you suicidal content
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: so you can get down these rabbit holes of negative content.
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: So algorithms are just programs that are designed to enhance
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: the experience of the platform. But sometimes they can work
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: to the benefit of the user or you know, to
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: the defeat of the algorithm.
• 37:25
  Speaker 8: Yes, so if that's I'm thinking, so for fan base,
• 37:27
  Speaker 8: it would be more advantageous to actually have it boost
• 37:31
  Speaker 8: the content because of more visibility.
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: Well, there's we don't have algorithms. We don't have algorithms
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: that boost content. It's simply if you have a million
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: followers on fan base, some closer piece of content, then
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: we're going to send it to a million people. I
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: don't want to because once I start controlling the amount
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: of visibility on the content that you receive, then I
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: become you know what I said, I didn't want to
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: be because it's about maximizing visibility to turn the And
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: this is a good a good thing to talk about.
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: Five percent of the people that follow you are your
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: fan base. So if you have a million followers on
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: social media and fifty thousand people really rock with you,
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: the other ninety five percent of people follow you follow
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: you passively like a magazine at a checkout aisle, or
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: their nosy or their haters. The other five percent they
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: are like, I rock with y'all, and that's what you
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: focus on. And so I tell people all the time,
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: do you want a million followers? Or do you want
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: a million dollars a million follow I know people with five, ten,
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: fifteen million followers broke can't even pay their bills. But
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: fifty thousand people paying you two dollars a month is
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: one hundred grand a month, one point two million dollars
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: a year.
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: That's it. Fifty thousand people.
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: In fact, when bad Baby, I know y'all heard about
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: Bad Baby, catch me outside, she made fifty five million
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: dollars off OnlyFans, right, right. And the first thing, there's
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: two things that I did. First thing I did is
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: went subscriber page. Not not because I wanted to. I
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: wanted to see what he did market research, yeah, no, absolutely,
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: but to see what she posted that got that and
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: I was surprised. Number One, she wasn't naked on any
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: of the content. The videos might have been ten says,
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: it might have been like ten seconds max and there's
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: a lot of pictures right of her and like bikinis
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: and lingerie and it was only like one hundred and
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: sixty pieces of content. I said, she made fifty five
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: million dollars off one hundred and sixty pieces of content.
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: The next thing I did is I went to her
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: Instagram page and there was no content on the page.
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: It was like six posts. One of them was I
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: made fifty five million dollars. Go cry about the bitches.
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: And that's what the that's what the capture said, right.
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: And I said, and this is something that I know
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: in our community we need to hear.
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: And it's gonna be a little controversial.
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: But I was like, see, I was like, she hit
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: all her content because she knows she makes Instagram. Instagram
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: doesn't make her. And that mentality came to her because
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: she's white. And what I mean by that if she
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: understands she runs shit. These apps don't run me. On
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: the other hand, we said, these apps are in us.
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: They take our pages, they throttle us down. We beg
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: giving my page back. They kick Boosy off the Instagram
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: every other week he begging to get his page back on.
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: He comes right back on. She's like I have sixteen
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: million followers. This serves me no purpose at all. So
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: she archived all her content and she put a link
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: tree and said, you can stream my song, watch my
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: music video, and come to my only fans. Because what
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: is this sixteen million people doing for me? It's doing nothing.
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: It's just a vanity number. It means absolutely no. What
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: is good as having sixteen million followers if you can't
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: use them?
• 40:29
  Speaker 5: Oh do you think that it to play devils out
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  Speaker 5: of the kid? Oh? Gods, now the kids.
• 40:33
  Speaker 6: My god nineteen Keys would say, it is a great
• 40:37
  Speaker 6: form of promotion that's free, that you can reach. You
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  Speaker 6: might not be able to reach one hundred percent of
• 40:43
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• 40:49
  Speaker 5: You know, don't think so.
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: I believe that. But they're your followers. If I follow you,
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: I want to see you.
• 40:56
  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 2: But my point is the only thing that the only
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  Speaker 2: reason why it isn't done that way is because they're
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  Speaker 2: making money off you. What I tell people all the
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  Speaker 2: time is that if you're not making money directly from
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: the platform, like the platform itself isn't hang you.
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  Speaker 3: You're the product. There's no way.
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  Speaker 2: And I was laughing the other day cause who was
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  Speaker 2: I talking I can't remember who I was talking to.
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  Speaker 2: And I was like, yeah, you know, I was like,
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  Speaker 2: they don't even let you reach your followers, even you know,
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  Speaker 2: you know, get a lot of money. They're like, well, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they're not gonna let you build a business on top
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  Speaker 2: of their business, Like who won't let you do that?
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  Speaker 5: And they're not, what's so you kind of did you
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  Speaker 5: kind of like we built the business on their business?
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  Speaker 2: You do until they don't allow you to just they
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  Speaker 2: shadow you, block you, so they block you, or they
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  Speaker 2: just say we don't allow that. Like people, because I
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: have there are a lot of people that are making
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  Speaker 2: money off bonuses, like off reels. They're like, oh, if
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  Speaker 2: I make if I get I can make up to
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: thirty five thousand dollars. If I get three hundred and
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: fifty million views, and I took out my calculator, I said,
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: that's point zero zero zero one cent of you.
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  Speaker 3: Point zero zeros.
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: It's like one hundredth of a percent per view, right,
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  Speaker 2: And they could decide and even remember that they're not
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  Speaker 2: on bonuses anymore. But if you're making that money month
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: of a month and then in the program, your business
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: is done.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And it's not. It's not my design.
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  Speaker 2: It's not my My design is not to My design
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  Speaker 2: is to let people build an infinite business off the
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: tools that I give you the build it, and I
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: just collect the fee. I just take a percentage, make
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: you make your business as big as you want to
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  Speaker 2: build it. I'm not the business. My business is making
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  Speaker 2: you a business.
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  Speaker 7: So do you take a percentage of the four ninety nine?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 8: But there's also other ways to monetize, right, So like
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  Speaker 8: if I go live, is it flicks?
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  Speaker 2: It's just gonna live. But Flix is like our version
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: of short form like TikTok and rails, So I, oh,
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  Speaker 2: I do flicks or something like that. People could actually
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: like give money while it's happening. Almost like people like
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: YouTube has super chat or something like that. So, so
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: we have subscriptions, and then we have a virtual currency
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: we call love, and so love is purchased by the
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: user to tip anybody on the platform or unlock content
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: that you don't feel comfortable completely subscribing to. So so say, oh,
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: I go to somebody's page and they got twenty pieces
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: of content. Let me unlock one to see what's behind there,
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: and then you get that and for that for that reason, right,
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  Speaker 2: So a lot of these other platforms used they make
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: you go through the process of pulling out your credit
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: card or sending up some sort of account. We use
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: the innap purchase technology that's already built into Google and
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: Apple for that reason. Their gangsters and they take thirty
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: cents of every dollar, which is hefty, and we take
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: twenty and we give fifty to the user. Now, when
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: I hear it in the record business, when you got
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: to think about people that are getting like sixteen cents
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: out of a dollar, nine cents out of a dollar,
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: fifty percent is a lot of money if you're making
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: two dollars and fifty cents a subscriber, right, even that,
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: even like I said, even if that's what is that
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: that's one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars a month,
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: one point five million dollars a year for fifty thousand people.
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: Even if you wanted to, even if you wanted to,
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: just go down to five thousand people subscribing to you,
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: and you're making two fifty that's more money than you
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: know ninety six percent of Americas one hundred and fifty
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: thousand dollars a year.
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: That's a lot of money.
• 47:03
  Speaker 8: So I'm just thinking, like, if I'm an artist, you
• 47:06
  Speaker 8: come from music, why would I just not put my
• 47:09
  Speaker 8: I make a piece of art of music, and I
• 47:12
  Speaker 8: put it directly there?
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: Is it?
• 47:14
  Speaker 7: Meaning?
• 47:14
  Speaker 8: If I'm getting fifty percent on each view or each listen,
• 47:18
  Speaker 8: will it make more sense?
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: You get artists approaching you about this, Yeah, but most
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: artists are tied into recording contracts and those people own
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: that copyright, so they own the music video, they own
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: the song, they own the master. But in this what
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: I tell people all the time as an artist. For musicians,
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: there are two ways of artists monetize their content. Primarily
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: monetize their content through like music, like people buying your single,
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: streaming your record, right, and then they monetize their audience
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: through doing shows. So monetize your monetize your content through music,
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: monetizer your audience by performing and doing concerts. There are
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: large gaps of time where you're doing neither, and people
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: want to know about your life. So people want to
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: know where do you shot, who you dating, how do
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: you stay fit? What happened at time? Y'all got in
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: a fight in the club. So when I see people
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: go live, this has happened two times in the last month.
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: And I'm just and I say this all the time.
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: When I seen when I seen Mega Stallion with Gail King,
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: and I just saw Danny Lee talking to and Andy Martinez,
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: I was like, what purpose did this serve? You could
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: have literally sat down where Angie Martinez and told the
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: whole story and put it behind the paywall. And now
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: not even if you got kicked out the baby's house,
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: go buy two houses, because everybody gonna tune in to
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: see They might not even tell you they gonna watch,
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: but they gonna watch. You know what I'm saying, Like
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: monetize like fan base gives the ability for people to
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: own their celebrity and monetize their celebrity. Don't let because
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: what you do is when you tell it for free,
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: TMZ takes it Baller at the Shade Room, all these
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: places and they get all the views and.
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: Continue to make money. And you just gave away your
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: story for free.
• 49:03
  Speaker 5: So what's the business model? Fan base?
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: So, so the business model is subscriptions and virtual currency.
• 49:12
  Speaker 6: I mean, as far as the company's making, how does
• 49:15
  Speaker 6: the company make money?
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: It makes it takes a percentage of we takecription, Yeah,
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: twenty percent of anything. That so twenty percent of every penny,
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: twenty percent of every dollar.
• 49:25
  Speaker 5: So for five dollars a month, you get a dollar.
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the creators get fifty cents.
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: Remember Apple, Apple and Google take thirty. We take twenty, okay,
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: and then we pass fifty to the creator.
• 49:36
  Speaker 5: So they get to fifty.
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, two fifty person scrap that? Yeah, all right?
• 49:43
  Speaker 6: Is the plan to also at one point have ads
• 49:47
  Speaker 6: like all these other companies have.
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: Again, if I have to run ads, then I have
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: to probably limit the visibility of content because at that point,
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: how am I gonna make revenue If I don't limit
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: Brands are gonna want to come to the people that
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: are on the platform to make money. And I don't
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: think we have to run ads well, I think there's
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: ways to be creative in the way that you advertise
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: without actually running ads. I don't want to say what
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: it is because every time I say something, it literally
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: winds up on an app. I'm not lying like nobody's listening. No,
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: for sure, like it's happened. So it's literally happened, like
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: in real time where I and actually I had a
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: friend of mine. I'm not gonna say what company he
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: worked for, but he came and said, I want to
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: talk to you because I want to talk to you
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: about face, a huge like media company. He goes, we
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: have this software, like like Facebook use us. All these
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: companies use us. He's like, you know when you be
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: like saying, like you talk about a product and also
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: you get an add for Yeah, we're listening to your
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: microphone like they hear it and they transcribing what you're saying.
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: So if you talk about some shit and it show
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: up on your phone, yes, they're absolutely. He's like, if
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: you don't turn that shit off on your phone, your microphone,
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: they're listening to everything you say.
• 50:53
  Speaker 3: They're geo. They're geo fencing you.
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: You walking, If you walk into a lingerie store, you're
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: gonna get an ad about some brawls, and if they
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: hear you talking about it, they hear you talking about
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: a certain car or a certain product, they gonna send
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: you and you know, oh, go go to this car
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: wash or you know, do you know want some new
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: rims or you need you know, anything like that. That's
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: how they targeted a marketing target. So I know they listen,
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: trust me.
• 51:18
  Speaker 5: So there is a way. I just can't say it
• 51:20
  Speaker 5: right now.
• 51:20
  Speaker 6: But because I say have to say, that's one of
• 51:22
  Speaker 6: the problems with Twitter, right they can't find a way
• 51:24
  Speaker 6: to make money and they don't run ads.
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: So elon, just say what he just said, he wants
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: to turn into a subscription platform.
• 51:32
  Speaker 6: Well it's yeah, but I'm just saying it still hasn't
• 51:36
  Speaker 6: been done yet, So there's no there's no proven model
• 51:39
  Speaker 6: that a social media company can be extremely profitable just
• 51:43
  Speaker 6: based off of subscriptions.
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean only fans. Only fans extremely profitable for
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: the company.
• 51:50
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 51:52
  Speaker 9: Absolutely, They about to change the whole business model through
• 51:55
  Speaker 9: because they were trying to get.
• 51:57
  Speaker 3: Away from that.
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: But they were But again, it's like it's the same thing.
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: It's kind of like you're you can't cut off your
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: source of revenue to maintain your business. And I think
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: it's great for sex workers. I think it's terrible for
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: people that want to establish their brand beyond, you know,
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: being associated with sex work, which is why a lot
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: of people shy away from the platform because it's hard
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: because brands will not rock with you for that very reason.
• 52:27
  Speaker 6: Have you thought about leaving it up to the creative
• 52:30
  Speaker 6: to see how much they want to charge?
• 52:32
  Speaker 5: So?
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: Yes, and no, we can't the reason. So I've done
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: an enormous amount of research on this, But what tends
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: to happen is anything over like the seven eight dollars mark,
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: subscriptions fall off about fifty percent month over a month.
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: If I go into like if you going to only
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: fans and you get there and it's a stack of
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: folded clothes, you're out of there, like you're not. I
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: came here to see boobs and so and she and
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: she charged me like twenty five dollars.
• 53:00
  Speaker 5: That's just what's your call of charge?
• 53:02
  Speaker 3: That baby? She charged twenty four dollars, twenty four dollars
• 53:05
  Speaker 3: twenty four a month.
• 53:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so it's working for.
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: Her, Oh no, because but it's it's it worked. I
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: did I calculated it, it's still she made If you
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: look at the image, she made like twenty five million
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: dollars off messages, which is basically like unlocks, like what
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: we're talking about, like how you can unlike.
• 53:22
  Speaker 7: Conscious took the content.
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but sixteen million off subscriptions, And even if I
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: did it, when you do the math, it's still about
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: fifty six thousand people that she made sixteen million dollars
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: off of just fifty six thousand people. She made sixteen
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: million dollars off of a year. That's a small town. So,
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's so because like it's you don't want
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: to do it.
• 53:43
  Speaker 8: But we see pretty much every subscription service started at
• 53:46
  Speaker 8: a low tier and then they may offer another tier,
• 53:50
  Speaker 8: not that they have to raise the price, but they
• 53:51
  Speaker 8: just have an added to.
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: Is that maybe an option? Yeah, it's it's hard. It's
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: hard to do. I'm not trying to get too much
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: of the game away. There's a reason why I'm not
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: going to. I'm going to tell you it's it's it's doable,
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: but it's not as easy as people think it is,
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: just because of where technology is now. But it's it's doable,
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: and I think we can we can do it. I
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: just know that people, and I'll tell people all the time.
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: If you go on your phone and look at the
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: subscription you have on your phone, like I probably got
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: like fifteen sixteen subscriptions on my phone. You forget about
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: that three ninety nine. You remember that thirty four ninety
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: nine or whatever, like, oh yeah, let me take that
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: off because I'm getting killed. But you know anything, that's
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: a price for bagg of chips in the soda and
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: you're and you're getting what you want.
• 54:32
  Speaker 3: People forget about that.
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: And then you'll have a subscriber for a year, two years,
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: and they're just into what they're locked into your content.
• 54:38
  Speaker 3: That's what you want.
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: You want the want, the you want the acquisition, you
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: want the purchase to not immediately hit you. And especially
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: reasons why I did virtual currency and love and why
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: I built fan base, Like I said, I didn't build
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: fan base for me. I build fan base for the
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: generation or two after me, right, because you know, those
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: those kids are transactional. They spend their money, they live
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: their life like now and they're like I'm gonna save
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: and you know, go to Paris when I get you know, retired,
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: Like nah, we go into Paris this weekend, and I'm
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: gonna go buy you know, the the rick Owens, and
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna go buy all the fly clothes and even
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna quit my job, and bro, they gonna live
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: life like right now, so they gonna buy. They'll buy
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: what they want. And they understand virtual virtual payment. So
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: they got Venmo cash at PayPal. They understand that they're
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: transactional and they're born into this. That's all they know.
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: They don't My little brother don't really know paper money.
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: I mean, he's sixteen years old. All he knows is,
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: you know, I send him money, you know, digitally, and
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: he has a card and he's not counting cash, like
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: if that hurts to pull out money and spend it
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: that way. So and then there's no amount of innovation
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: that Facebook and Instagram can do to capture kids because
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: kids are always gonna want to be on apps that
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: their parents are not on. It's about community building. So
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: soon as my mama got on Facebook, I was like,
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: Peece's like, you know Facebook as stated by a young child,
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: which which the user sent me, and he sent me
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: the tweet. His daughter said, Facebook is where old people
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: go to brag about their grandchildren. That's what a young
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: person thinks of Facebook. So I don't care what Facebook
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: bill you can build. As matter of fact, the child
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: said meta credit feta, I don't care what Facebook bills.
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: It'll never be as cool as roadblocks because Facebook is
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: where old people go to brag about their grandchildren.
• 56:22
  Speaker 3: So build whatever you want.
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: Kids are gonna want to be able to talk about
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: their love life, their sex life, the music that they're
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: listening to, the things that they're going through in spaces
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: and places where their parents are not.
• 56:32
  Speaker 5: So let's talk about this funding conversation.
• 56:34
  Speaker 6: So you raised three point five million, I believe in
• 56:37
  Speaker 6: the regc crowd six million, six million, two rounds.
• 56:41
  Speaker 3: So I raised three point four in the first REXCF
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: and two point six in the second.
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: Oh so this is crowdfunding, right, yeah? Equity crowdfunding? What platform?
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: Start engine starting? Oh, it's equity crowdfunding. Yeah so all right,
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: So the equity crowdfunding is people who have ownership, right, yeah,
• 57:00
  Speaker 2: so talk about that. So this is where my good
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: friend don Dixon, who's raised money multiple times on Starter,
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: and she's like the she's the first black woman to
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: raise a million dollars to equity crowdfunding, and so she's like,
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: you know, you can do this too, I because you
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: understand your business is a great product, and then who
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: better to have equity in the startup than the people
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: that actually use it. And it's different for other companies,
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: but I think it fit well with fan base and
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: the time that we were in because there were so
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: many complaints about what was going on on social media.
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: It's like TikTok had this huge scandal about how if
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: you put black anywhere you on the creator marketplace and
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: you use black lives matter, black success black people. They
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: were like, it's inappropriate concept, but you can put white supremacy,
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: you know, and still charge for that. So TikTok had
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: had a bad rich problem and they still do. And
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: I tell people all the time, like, there's nothing that
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: TikTok can do to to help you as a creator
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: in the United States of America. That's a Chinese based company.
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: The algorithm in China. All the shots get caught from China.
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: So for us that the opportunity to equity crowdfund came about.
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: And it's hard because only two percent of startups that
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: apply for equity crowdfund and get accepted. So It's not
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: like I could just sign up the start engine and
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: do shared. It's a very very long process. You know,
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: you have to go through multiple financial disclosures, like you
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: got to fill out a lot of paperwork, file a
• 58:28
  Speaker 2: lot of paperwork. So once you do all this kind
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: of stuff, you know, then you're allowed to raise, and
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: then you have to you know, market the raise to
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: the point that the money that you're trying to raise.
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: So I've known people that have tried to raise a
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: million dollars and weren't able to raise ten thousand, right,
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: and so you have to become the raise. You have
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: to live it and really market and promoted non stuff.
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: So we were successful two different times.
• 58:49
  Speaker 3: So you have.
• 58:51
  Speaker 8: Correct me if I'm over eight thousand investors. So what's
• 58:55
  Speaker 8: the minimum to be able to invest? And obviously I
• 58:59
  Speaker 8: don't know if obviously there's a.
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: Maximare So when you're doing a RecF, the minimum is
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: is I mean somewhere and around the nature of about
• 59:07
  Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty to two undred fifty dollars. For
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: our raise was two fifty minimum to invest with two
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: hundred and fifty six dollars and the maximum is one
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: hundred grand one hundred thousand dollars.
• 59:16
  Speaker 8: Okay, So what's the marketing plan to make sure that
• 59:20
  Speaker 8: people hear about it? They're interested in it? Obviously beyond you.
• 59:23
  Speaker 8: It must be a marketing plan that's put behind it
• 59:25
  Speaker 8: so we can have awareness. Are you going on social
• 59:28
  Speaker 8: well social media to promote it? Are you using the
• 59:31
  Speaker 8: other platforms?
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: So Dawn was Dawn was my coach, and I took
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: a lot of what she said a little bit of
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: what I do. Because most people that raise capital, like
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: do equity crowdfunding, have to take it a portion of
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: their raise and put it back into advertising the campaign.
• 59:46
  Speaker 3: I've never done that.
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: I've never running ad campaign to raise money for fan base.
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: What I have done is use platforms like clubhouse, you know,
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: or use the use the climate of the in of
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: what people are going through right now to say there's
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: an alternative to this. If you if you're tired of
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: these platforms treating you the way that you're treated, then
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: you can definitely own part of one platform and continue
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: to use this. So doing shows like this like I
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: was Fun, like I did the I did the first round,
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: I raised like three hundred thousand dollars.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 3: The first goal was to.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: Raise a million, and we did that in about I
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: raised like three hundred thousand dollars in like the first
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: two and a half weeks, and I did the Breakfast
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: Club and then the day that I did the breakflub
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: in that air, I raised like seven hundred thousand dollars
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: unless an hour close that raise and had a wait
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 2: list of like one point three million dollars.
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 3: So you just never and that was viral. You never
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 3: know when you're going to go viral.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: But also I think a key factor in doing when
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: you're doing equity crowdfunding is letting people know how you're
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: doing because it becomes a game to people, like people
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 2: are watching it.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 3: Oh he raised a little fifty.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: Thousand dollars, I know he trying to raise like a million,
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: two million, all right, and then they'll see you raise
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: one hundred thousand, and they'll see you raised two hundred thousand.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 2: And that's what happened, and people were like, oh, man,
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 2: I'm missed out because then went viral and to raise
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: clothes at a million, I was able to open it
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: back up and accept the wait list onto three point
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: four million dollars. But a lot of people missed out
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: and so but they'll follow it and they'll be like,
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: I don't think he gonna make it then, and then
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: when you make it, then they get like, I ain't
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: missing the next one because you don't, you know. We
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: The importance of equity crowdfunding is that accredited investors are
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 2: allowed to go in and put minimal amounts of money
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: into companies and walk away with huge.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 3: Amounts of return. Right.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: And so the credited investor, for those that don't know,
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: is a person that makes over one hundred thousand dollars
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  Speaker 2: a year for two consecutive years, or has a networth
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  Speaker 2: of a million dollars minus their primary residents.
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  Speaker 3: Right. So I give this example, and I tell people
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  Speaker 3: all the time. One of the seed.
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  Speaker 2: Investors in uber or in Michael's Google him, he put
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 2: five thousand dollars into uber in twenty ten, So I
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: think the first you know half a million that they're raised,
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 2: he put five g's an accredited investor. When the company
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 2: ippiled in twenty nineteen, his five thousands worth twenty four
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: million dollars. And I'm like, oh, okay, I'm not trying
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  Speaker 2: to be funny, but I know I know a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people with five j one thousand dollars. I know
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  Speaker 2: ten people with five hundred dollars. How come we can't?
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  Speaker 2: How come ain't nobody call me about Uber?
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  Speaker 3: Right? Because you're not accredited.
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  Speaker 2: So the accredited investor rule came in in nineteen thirty five,
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: and it was really a rule to lock out the
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 2: good opportunities only for the rich people. So like, oh,
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 2: you got to be rich in this because we don't
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: want you to blow your life savings on a bad investment.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 2: We don't want you to take your retirement money and
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: put it into this thing called Uber and it goes
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 2: belly up and you lost your fortune. But I tell
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 2: people all the time, you don't have to be accredited
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 2: to go to Vegas and blow five thousand dollars on
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: the crap table. You don't have to be accredited to
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 2: go buy lottery tickets five thousand dollars with a lottery
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 2: tickets and wind up winning nothing. So why can't we
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 2: gamble with startups the same way? And so that is
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: where companies like start Engine come in and allow us
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 2: for people to put the price of a pair of
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: Jordan's into a startup and see where it goes. Because
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 2: you're gonna eat it, you know, you're gonna buy it
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: on some bullshit or hookah or whatever, you know, throw
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: it at the strip club or you know, just do
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 2: normal things.
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  Speaker 3: But why not be able to take some money and
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 3: run with it?
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  Speaker 6: So, all right, VC, are you interested in getting venture capital?
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  Speaker 6: Did you have you tried to get VNCI traditional venture capital?
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 6: What's your thoughts on venture to capital? And you investors?
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 2: So I took one venture capital meeting before we did
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: equity crowdfunding, and it felt really like, we don't want
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 2: you to let we don't want you to play in
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 2: our field. And then it just so happened that again
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: like COVID hit. And so I'm definitely interested in venture capital,
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 2: but I'm interested in the right venture capital and then
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: the right way that it's done. And so I think
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 2: the benefit of working in the music business, and I
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 2: say this all the time, is that I've seen the
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 2: worst deals possible.
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  Speaker 3: I've seen the worst.
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  Speaker 2: Publishing bills, I've seen my friends get signed, the bad
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 2: publish deals. I've seen the worst kind of business deals
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 2: done for artists and labels. So a VC can't slide
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: me a deal Because a lot of my friends that
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 2: are into tech, they have their version of bad record deals,
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 2: like they have versions of where they might have given
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: up too much equity or too much power in their
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: company and got voted out of the company like Steve
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: Jobs did, like Steve's all the genius. How do you
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: get voted out your own damn company? But you know
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 2: you're so fixed on I know I can make this work.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 2: That'll never happen. But now things happen and you get
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 2: voted out. So I'm definitely interested in that. And so
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 2: I treated I treat fan base like an independent artist
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 2: because when the vcs were like that, one VC was like,
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: oh no, it's like trying to go to the record
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: company like Drake and they dish you and then you
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 2: put your mixtape out and it which is my version
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: of selling shares out the truck of my car to
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 2: the tune of six million dollars. So now I was like,
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 2: I got the streets. I don't need y'all. So now
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 2: a VC can't come along and just hand me any
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 2: old deal, right, the deal's gonna have to be respectable,
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: and I under stand in the market and so and
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 2: I can always go back to raising capital from the streets.
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: So it's like I can always go back being independent.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 2: So if I do do a deal, my goal is
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 2: to make fan base it's hot as little baby. So
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 2: when the vcs come along, they're like, we got to
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 2: sign you because you're so hot in the streets. If
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 2: we don't, we're gonna miss out. And that's the that's
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 2: the the the the model of the energy that I have.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: I definitely want vcs because they're they're definitely good business
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 2: parties and can open up a lot of doors. But again,
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 2: it just has to be the right deal.
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 8: So you got over eight thousand, and now the app
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 8: is in one hundred and seventy countries, maybe.
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 3: More one hundred and thirty plus. Why why would that work?
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 8: As far as international investors are people from other countries
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 8: able to invest?
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 2: So the only only two countries that you couldn't invest
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 2: that started and had limitations on, and that was based
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 2: on the country where the UK and Canada. Everywhere else
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: is open. It was open for people to wes. We
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 2: have international investors from overseas and stuff like that. I
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 2: don't know what regulations prevent you from investing from Canada
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 2: and the UK, and and those are the two places
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 2: where people.
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 3: Were like, man, I want to invest, like I'm right here,
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 3: like I'm right.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not for y'all let me and I just I
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 2: had no choice, you know, I had no control over that.
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  Speaker 5: How many users is on the app right now?
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  Speaker 2: Two hundred and fifty thousand.
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 5: What's your goal for users?
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 2: I mean, I want to get I want to get
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 2: to a million users before the end of the summer.
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: And we in the entire time we've we've you know,
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 2: we've raised six million dollars. Even though we've raised six
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: million dollars, I didn't we haven't done any marketing. So
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 2: now we're getting to the point in the phase where
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 2: we're going to do some marketing and do some strategic marketing.
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 3: But there's a plan to onboard a lot.
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 2: Of users and and you know, and really have a
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 2: strong push through the summer. I want to get young.
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 2: We got we have a creator advisory board of young
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 2: talent that is geared toward what the app is going
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 2: to do with creators, and then you know, audio rooms
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: and stuff like that that are happening. So the goal
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: is to get to a million users super super quick
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 2: and then raise a significant Series A because that'll just
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 2: give us the capital continue that's what you do even
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 2: even even investors and and and vcs aren't so much
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 2: concerned about the revenue because even in startups it's like,
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 2: you know, you got to figure out monetization, even though
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 2: monetization is built in. They're more they're more excited about
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 2: the user base. So I want to focus on the
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 2: user base. We're making money, We've made a lot of
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 2: money with fan base, but I want to continue to
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: to scale the user base because that just becomes more advantageous.
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 9: To the community and vcs. So okay, so is it
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 9: all right? I get the subscription side of it, but
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 9: is it still a social side? Like what if you're
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 9: going on you don't want to follow anybody to pay?
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 5: Yea, is it still a social It's free, it's free,
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 5: it's free to follow.
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  Speaker 3: There's there's tons of free companies.
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 5: Is it designed strictly for creatives or is it designed
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 5: for just general public?
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: This is not for every user. It doesn't it doesn't matter.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 2: That's the thing about it. You're going to make money
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: on fan base whether you want to or not. You
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 2: don't never have to like enter your your debit card
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 2: or whatever to get paid. You're gonna still go look
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 2: at your revenue and see some money because somebody's gonna
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 2: love what you do. That's what I mean by being transactional.
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: Somebody's gonna be like, oh, I'll give you like a
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 2: couple of pennies for that. And when you think about
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 2: scaling that over time, because we all don't know what
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 2: we're going to become, you might somebody might have a
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 2: really good knack for designing sneakers or dying tennis shoes
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 2: or whatever, and all of a sudden, people want to know,
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 2: like how do you die your tennis shoes? And you
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 2: start making videos about that, and before you know it,
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 2: you've got a whole business built on the content that
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 2: you've created. So I just wanted to leave it wide
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 2: open for you to discover your passion and then if
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: you want to monetize it in the form of conversation,
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 2: in the form of photo, in the form of long
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: form content like a TV show, you know what I'm saying,
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 2: Like I imagine, I imagine like how Whatterray did with
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 2: Black Awkward, Black Girl, but she never sold it to HBOS,
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: so it just eventually became Insecure and she just had
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 2: subscribers subscribing to Insecure the whole time. Because now She's like,
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 2: she owns the whole whole thing, and she owned a fab.
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 2: If they want to come along and license it or
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 2: buy it or go ahead, but it's mine. It's that
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 2: Tyler Perry mentality, like own your content first, because you
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 2: own your content on fanbase. If you if you blow
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 2: up and somebody wants to come along and say, hey,
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 2: we want to put the show on ABC, you have
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 2: a decision to make. You want to sell the ABC
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 2: or do you want to still own it? Make the
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 2: line's share of the profit and call the shots. So
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 2: obviously when you're raising each round, you're collecting the money.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 2: With development back into the business, talk about how you're
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 2: going strategically about adding technologies because I know you don't
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 2: want to build everything at once.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 8: It takes time. And obviously as you're building, other companies
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 8: are building. So what's that process? Look, I mean it's tough.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 2: I mean I think we because we don't have and
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 2: when I tell people to look like I'll bring I'll
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 2: do like small focus script when we have people come
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: out office and I'll hand them the app and I'll
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 2: say how much of this feel like? Current platforms like Instagram, TikTok, Clubhouse,
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 2: and they'll say, man, this is like I say, on
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 2: scale of one to ten, they be like eight or nine.
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 2: I say, okay, we've built this with less than like
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 2: three and a half million dollars, three million dollars, Like
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 2: what do you think we could do with thirty five
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 2: or three hundred million? Right, So that's the thing about it.
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 2: So I mean, our strategy, like I said, is continue
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 2: to build the technology that people want, because everybody wants
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 2: everything now, but you have to build things that also turn.
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 3: Revenue and create engagement.
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 2: So we focus on things like short form video because
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 2: it's super super in gaging audio. Like when you think
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 2: about platforms, like we in our data in our analytics,
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 2: the average user spends about forty minutes a day on YouTube,
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 2: twenty nine on Instagram, about ten to fifteen on TikTok.
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 2: Because of the audio and video combined. On fan Base,
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 2: people are spending about an hour and thirty minutes a
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 2: day hour and twenty minutes a day on the app.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 2: Because you can score, you can be in an audio
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 2: room and roll the app at the same time, so
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 2: you can use your eyes and your ears at the
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 2: same time. When you're on audio apps, you typically just
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 2: listen and look at the phone, Like I said, who's
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 2: an audience, and then that's kind of that it. But
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 2: when you can engage with multiple mediums and content at
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 2: the same time, we do that.
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 3: So we wanna I call them user tools.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: We wanna build user tools that allow people to monetize
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 2: and discover what their abilities are and make sure that
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 2: those verticals are there while the things that people may
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 2: want that are not so much geared towards like oh,
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 2: we want more filters or we want carousels, like, we'll
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 2: get there, But we have to focus on the things
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 2: that I know that that the users want, because the
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 2: users define a platform. You know, there were no there,
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 2: There wasn't the things retweets. Still people started putting our
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 2: t and then putting them behind the height and then
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 2: they just added the functionality.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 3: So your community will tell you what it wants and
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 3: we listen.
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: So whatever whatever it gets sent in the most or
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 2: of of most urgency, we develop the buildings of the platform.
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 7: Do y'all have a partnership program? I know like Snoopers.
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 8: I've seen Snoop promote the brand, perhaps an investor Charlotta Maine,
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 8: is there like a part program or people hearing about
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 8: it here say they meet you to talk to you
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 8: about what the platform is based on, and they say,
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 8: I want to be a.
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 7: Part of It's like, what's that process like for you?
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 2: I mean so it's more like, and again I say
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 2: this all the time, it's more about people just saying, hey,
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 2: like this is a real chance for us to own
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 2: and monetize our content, because like, the users make the
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 2: value of the platform. Everybody left Instagram tomorrow, Instagram me
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 2: worth zero dollars and zero cents, right, and so they
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 2: create the value, and so everybody we're in this moment
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 2: where everybody's so frustrated with shadow banding and all that
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 2: kind of stuff. Like even when Snoop came on the
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 2: platform and started using it more is because the day
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 2: of the Super Bowl, Instagram wouldn't let him go live.
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 3: So he's like, I'm going to fan base.
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 2: Right where I can you know, send it out and
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 2: go there and be live. And what I noticed was
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 2: whenever we make a move and I said this, I
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 2: said this before, is like, initially when we were building
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 2: subscriber based story story that you can put behind the
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 2: paywall so you don't have stories for followers, and stories
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 2: for subscribers. Instagram was going to call that functionality fan clubs.
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 2: I was like, come on, y'all right, they copy everybody,
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 2: so it's cool, right they want to call it fan clubs.
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 2: We were changing our price. Our price was three ninety nine.
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 2: We went from three ninety nine to four ninety nine.
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 2: Instagram had rolled out a pilot program for subscriptions and
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 2: giving it to about ten or fifteen people the day
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 2: that we announced that we were going to four ninety nine.
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 2: The next week, everybody got subscriptions. Everybody black, I'm sorry.
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 2: Everybody was on my feet. Subscribe to this person, subscribe
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 2: to that person. Everybody's like, do you see this?
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 3: I'm like yeah.
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 2: I was like, look at this company is raised six
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 2: million dollars influencing a nine hundred billion dollar market cap
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 2: company because they know that they've underserved an audience for years,
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 2: and there's somebody that's stepping in the void to actually
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 2: feel that that place for users and really allows them
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 2: to take full advantage of their following.
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 5: So what's next for fan base? Like, what's your what's
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 5: your six month, twelve month vision?
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, a million users. Series A.
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 2: We've been getting calls about Series A and I happily
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 2: accept the phone calls and I think they're they're great
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 2: and people are interested in So we're just gonna continue
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 2: to have conversation with vcs and if the right partner
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 2: comes along, because it's just it's just about the right partner.
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 2: It's about a person that believes in what we're building,
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 2: believes in the culture of what we're building, and then
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 2: we'll continue to scale the platform. I want to be,
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 2: like I said, I want to be the guy that
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 2: disrupts so much media because here's the thing that I
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 2: said about bad Baby, and I think people don't understand
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 2: what Like I don't people understand understand what she did
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 2: because she made fifty five million dollars. She's signed to
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 2: Atlantic Records. Atlantic Records can't pay her fifty five million
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 2: dollars a year, so when her dealer is up at
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 2: Atlantic Records, she'd be like, ninety ten, I keep ninety
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 2: you keep ten. I don't want this fifty to fifty
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 2: whatever y'all you know, or I'll just go somewhere else
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 2: and somebody will get rid of that deal. That's leverage,
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 2: you know. NIL has kicked in for athletes, So the
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 2: ability for an athlete to build a fan base to
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 2: monetize it, and then if Nike comes with a deal,
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 2: he'd be like, I make that a month on subscriptions,
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 2: put that away. I'm giving leverage. It's like, you know,
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 2: for talent, for people that do you know TV shows.
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 2: That's why I say and I said this and shout
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 2: out to Dre Davis, who works in fan base is
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 2: a good friend of mine. He remembers when I said this,
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 2: I sat across from a rapper, a female rapper, and
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 2: I said this. This was less than a year ago.
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 2: I said, if you're not monetizing your content today, five
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 2: years from now, you're going to be out earned by
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 2: somebody that's less talented than you that decided to do it.
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 2: And I said, you're gonna walk up one day and
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 2: somebody said, somebody made a million dollars off. Only fans
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 2: are a million dollars subscribing. And he was like, it
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 2: won a million dollars. It was fifty five million dollars
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 2: And she made more money than Cardi B, Nicki, Minaj,
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 2: Meg Thee Stallion, all the female rappers Doja Cat can't,
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 2: nobody diss her can did her? She made fifty five
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 2: million dollars off one hundred and sixty posts. You can't
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 2: you can't disser for that. And she didn't get naked,
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 2: she ain't busting open or nothing. She just went to
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 2: her fan base and monetized it and made money. So
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 2: that was that was such a such a moment that
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 2: I don't think people realized what she did because she
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 2: triggered the ability for people to say, oh, I again,
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 2: I'm the I'm the show. You don't make me, I
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 2: make you. If I decide to pick up and take
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 2: my talents to fan base, they coming with me. And
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 2: I think the moment that people realize that in mass
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 2: these platforms are in trouble.
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 5: One last thing before we wrap.
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  Speaker 6: You mentioned earlier that she was reluctant to shut that
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 6: out because you didn't want to be looked at as
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 6: like a black She did come out, y'all vocal and basically,
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 6: so why did you decide.
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  Speaker 3: To do that?
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  Speaker 5: And do you think that people look at fan base
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 5: as a.
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 3: Black app So two reasons.
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 2: One at the same time, the Black Lives Matter move
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 2: happened when you were in middle of COVID and George
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 2: for what happened, and the protests were going on, and
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 2: all of a sudden, the tech community, the business community
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 2: was acceptant, accepting of recognizing the effect that black culture
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 2: and black people have on the economy and how we've
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 2: been locked, you know, economically.
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 3: Out of you know, those those systems.
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 2: And then to most tech startups, you really you really
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 2: invest also in the company, but you invest in the founder.
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 2: And I think for me, I wanted the people to
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 2: know me and understand that who you were investing in
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 2: and what product you were getting and the person that
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 2: had the passion behind what you were doing and what
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 2: I was doing. So I was very very you know,
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 2: cool with be in that. Now to that point, again,
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 2: it's unfortunate that when you know, white people build things,
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 2: it's perceived that they're built for all people.
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 3: But when somebody black builds something, there's real luck to that.
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 2: But what we also know is that wherever the culture goes,
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 2: everybody follows. It doesn't matter wherever the party is. And
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 2: I say that, I say, I treat fan base like
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 2: a nightclub. I said, it's like, right now, fan base
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 2: is like ten thirty, Like it's cool.
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 3: You can get right to the bar, it's some girls
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 3: in here. It's really cool.
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 2: Whatever but once it hits like one am, everybody's gonna
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 2: pull up at the same time. It's gonna be like, oh,
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 2: it's the hottest club in the country. And fan base
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 2: is the is the rule and not the exception. Companies
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 2: like Instagram are the exception. Companies like Clubhouse are the exception.
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 2: When I look at byte Dance, which is TikTok's parent company,
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 2: or I even look at Patreon, those companies were started
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 2: in twenty twelve, in twenty thirteen, and it took them
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 2: years of raising capital and growing their audience to where
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 2: even people know. People still don't know what Patreon is, right,
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 2: and they've they've managed to raise I think three hundred
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 2: million dollars so far, three hundred plus million dollars so far.
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 2: And byte Dance started out twenty twelve and they become
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 2: profitable until twenty nineteen. So it's it's usually a long
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 2: grind of really, you know, building the company. So we're
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 2: in it for the long haul and we're just ahead
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 2: of the curve and where everybody else is that right now?
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 6: So how can people follow you? How can they sign
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 6: up to the app? What's all the information can they
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 6: is the still raising money?
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 3: No so we've closed both of our rounds.
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 2: I can't tell if I'm going to raise another round
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 2: to the public because that's illegal.
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 3: Everybody said, are you gonna raise on the round?
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 2: Can't say you can only announce a raise once a
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 2: raise is live. So if I do, I'll come back
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 2: here and tell y'all. I know a lot of people
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 2: hear about it, and come do that. I'll do that.
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 2: You can find me on fan Base. It's on iOS
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 2: and Android. It's free to download, free to you. That's
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 2: what I tell everybody. It's like, it doesn't it doesn't
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 2: cost anything to use the platform at all. And I'm
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 2: isaacase three on those platform So I aac h A
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 2: y s and number three on Instagram, Twitter and fan Base,
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 2: especially because I don't really post. I kind of post
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 2: like about fan Base on my other socials, but I
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 2: put what I do, what I eat, how I live,
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 2: what I'm doing on fan.
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 3: Base because that's that's where we at.
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 2: And Twitter and twitters, and I say this Twitter to
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 2: all the people that do make content. Your stories on
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 2: Instagram and Twitter are your most valuable pieces of IP.
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 2: That's where you can get the most traction and the
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 2: most potential varility of what you.
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 3: Do everywhere else TikTok.
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 2: They're the most disloyal audience by way of they they
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 2: just want people want to see this videos and be entertained,
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 2: so they're not really attached to the user. They just
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 2: want to be entertained, like what you got to do
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 2: for fifteen seconds in this or one minute in this
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 2: video dance. But if you really want to get to
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 2: know the nuts and bolts of the persons in their
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 2: real life, then content platforms like fan base that allow
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 2: people to post photos and videos and give you a
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 2: more inside look at what's going on is where it's
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 2: going to be at.
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 3: But Twitter also because again it's the.
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 2: Only evergreen social media platform in my opinion, every social
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 2: media platform has a lifespan, right including fan mase who
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 2: have a lifespan. So all these platforms are defined by
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 2: the generation that use them. Twitter is defined by what's
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 2: happening right now, like who won the game?
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 3: Who got divorced? Who? What? What is what's going on
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 3: in Congress? Like right now?
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 2: So I think it's evergreen, and that's why a lot
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 2: of young kids use Twitter. Like young people flock the Twitter.
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 2: They're still like what's happening at the Yeah, that's what
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 2: makes that's that's the genius. That's when I say every
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 2: app you have that aha moment like oh this is
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 2: like you know, this is like the dark night where
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 2: if something happens, it's like multiple angles of what's going on.
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 2: So this is my version of what happened. This is
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 2: my version, and it all comes together and paints this
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 2: picture of what what really happens. So I think it's
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 2: I think it's a genius platform. Eli's gonna's gonna turn
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 2: up on it.
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 2: He gonna make it pop, hes gonna he gonna put
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 2: I think he's gonna bring those I said. I think
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 2: he gonna bring Doge into Twitter. So if you got Doge,
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 2: even though it's in the toilet right now, fall onto it.
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 2: The Doge Father. Yeah, the Doge Father. I think he's
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 2: gonna blow that up. But yeah, that's where you can
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 2: That's where you can find me. Though I'm on fan base, y'all,
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 2: but y'all should come to Fambly, y'all should start doing
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 2: like we need to find a way to get y'all
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 2: do some really dope audio rooms on fan Base. We'll
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 2: find some ways a part of what y'all and maybe
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 2: have some conversations with some people because I think people
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 2: like to have access to Because we're about to launch,
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 2: we're about to watch subscriber based audio rooms too, so
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 2: I know, so people have to subscribe to get into
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 2: your audio rooms. So if EYL wants to have subscriber
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 2: based audio rooms and you have thousands of subscribers or
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 2: hundreds of thousands subscribers to come in here, y'all talk,
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 2: that's something we can do. We'll be the face of
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 2: the campaign.
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 9: Hey, I love it absolutely, Troy House, keep up.
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 8: Shout everybody on fan base, Shout to everybody on that
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 8: other company, you know, Shout everybody on patri you all
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 8: our patrons, everybody in EYL University, all our earners, over
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 8: twelve thousand people that are subscribed and executing on if
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 8: it may, but not only that, passing it on to
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 8: the next generation and changing lives forever. So shout out
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 8: to all of y'all, Shout to everybody in the merch team,
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 8: Shout out to the entire.
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 3: Atlanta, the city of Atlanta.
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 8: We are here, obviously, this is our second home, UH Studios,
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 8: obviously looking impeccable. Uh so, shout out to Mike and
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 8: Ben and Smitty our team down here.
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 3: Love is love.
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 5: Thank you guys rocking with us to see you next week.
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 4: Peace, Peace, my graduates from my school being forced back.
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 4: Drop Bag Drop, Mike Drop.
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