The Startup Kids Page #2

and all that fun stuff. It was

all about wanting to create

something out of nothing.

I studied marketing and I also

did a minor in politic science

I wanted to study something

that was completely unrelated

to tech, that was in liberal

arts so that I could learn how

people on the other side of

the table were thinking

and it was very enlighten. I was

able to learn a lot about

perspectives around politic

theory and one of the things

it helped me do was to

understand power structures

and politics is inherently turn

around power and if I could

learn how to navigate these

power structures, I could be

successful in other areas and

so that is what political

science really made me do

I started a web design company,

like every other web

entrepreneur ends up doing at

some point and I called it a

design consultancy and we

basically charged people to

make layouts and it was really

me and my buddy, like, hammering

out code and then sending it off

to someone on a freelance

website to make it all work and

then send it off to that client

and charging a lot

of money for it.

Wasn't work at all. It was just

me spending time, to have fun

and it happened to pay us well.

We were able to pay most of our

college tuition from it, that

was great but other then that,

I didn't think too much of it

After skipping four grades in

school and finishing college at

only 18, he decided to move

to San Francisco.

I realized if I were to do

something meaningful for the

rest of my life it had to be in

a city that was larger,

that had more money in it and

more people I could relate to

and I knew that Silicon Valley

was the place to be, so I'm

going to go check it out and

see it with my own eyes

was it really "Nerdtopia", as

they called it, is it actually

that awesome. So I flew down and

cold emailed just people.

I figured, you know, what is the

worst thing could happen if I

email all these people and they

say no, OK great, I was not even

going to meet with them, in the

first place

By emailing people in Silicon

Valley Brian managed to get

meetings with some of the

world's most respected venture

capitalists and entrepreneurs.

He got a job at a startup named

Digg, a popular social content

website. Digg had to lay off

40% of their staff, and after

only a year Brian was fired.

I had like 2000 dollars left on

my bank account, I was about to

go bankrupt, bed was like

fifteen hundred, it is not cheap

to live in the city and I

remember talking to some of

my friends that I made over the

last few months and I was like

hey I have got this idea and

they were like, hey I know this

VC, Adam. And I met with Adam

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