Chillin Mastaa

47 Simple Steps to Go From $0 to Selling Your Company (only takes 16 years to complete!) 1. Watch The Social Network on your 14th birthday, startups seem pretty cool 2. End up working at Chipotle because you don’t know anything about building 3. Finish high school early, intern at a law firm before college. On track to become good asian son 4. Hate it. Go to college to become a poet instead 5. Meet co-founder at UCSD. Remember love for startups. Convince him to build a company with you 6. Fail 5 startups in a row. Delete years of your life and exhaust all savings 7. Transition to part-time student and work at sushi restaurant to afford tuition 8. Convince random stranger on plane to invest $10k. Apparently you can just ask for things 9. Drop out of college. Startup #6 fails. Return the $10k 10. Start Jenni AI 11. Cold call 8 hours a day to hit $2k MRR 12. Get rejected by every accelerator, go completely broke, move back in with parents 13. Covid hits. Company going to die 14. Get $100k from Jason Calacanis. Immediately fly to Malaysia to extend runway 15. Run out of money again 16. Fly to Korea, win startup funding, almost go bankrupt anyway 17. Get emergency $250k investment from VC 18. Random viral Twitter thread 10x's revenue overnight 19. Pivot to EdTech, figure out how to go viral, hit $1M ARR 20. Get diagnosed with cancer 21. Get thyroid removed, cancer free 22. Get discharged, GPT-4 comes out, then Google releases AI on google docs, then Microsoft announces they’re adding AI to Microsoft word. All in same week 23. Go straight back to work 24. Hit $2M ARR on your 27th birthday 25. Hit $3M ARR 67 days later 26. Hit $4M ARR 87 days later 27. Hit $5M ARR 38 days later 28. Almost sell your startup. Change your mind at the last second. 29. Co-founder leaves the company 30. Girlfriend breaks up with you 31. One of your closest friends passes away 32. Startup stops growing 33. Feeling pretty bad 34. Retreat back into work, double down on Jenni 35. Acquire companies 36. Add key hires to the team 37. Hit $10M ARR 38. Meet Digital Science, realize they are the perfect buyer 39. Go through Due Diligence 40. Turn 30 years old 41. Spend an ungodly amount of money on lawyers and bankers 42. Jenni AI acquired by Digital Science 🥳 43. Coincidentally, Social Reckoning, sequel to Social Network, comes out 16 years later on the same week of your acquisition. Kinda crazy 44. Wire hits your bank account at 3AM 45. Stare at it for two hours 46. Text mom good news 47. Finally get a good nights sleep :)