How This Billionaire Founder Finds +$20B Business Ideas | Kevin Ryan Interview (#495)

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September 14, 2023

Duration

1h 0m

Channel

My First Million

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

No more small boy spreadsheets, build your business on the free HubSpot CRM: https://mfmpod.link/hrd - Episode 495: Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) talk with Kevin Ryan, Founder and CEO of AlleyCorp, an incubator and venture capital fund behind Business Insider, MongoDB, GILT and Zola among others. Kevin shares how he runs his +$20B venture studio AlleyCorp, why Buzzfeed ultimately failed, how he launches 8 companies a year and much more. — Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com
• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire global talent (like Shaan does) and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than their US equivalents.

— Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/
• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/
• Copy That - https://copythat.com
• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

💰 Pitch your startup for a shot at a $1M investment with Sam Parr as the MC https://clickhubspot.com/pitch Check Out Our Clips Channel:

• MFM Clips - https://www.youtube.com/@ClipMFM — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (3:15) Selling DoubleClick to Google for ~$3B (5:20) Starting Business Insider, MongoDB and Gilt (11:00) What led Kevin to start Business Insider (15:00) Why Kevin hired Henry Blodget to run Business Insider (16:45) What did Buzzfeed get wrong? (18:45) Why has AlleyCorp been such a success compared to other venture studios? (29:20) What businesses Kevin’s excited about right now (39:00) Thoughts on buy vs. build vs. bootstrap (41:00) What business has been the easiest and most profitable? (42:50) Thoughts on AI (44:50) Launching 8 companies a year (47:40) Why Kevin isn’t on social media (50:20) Starting companies in the recruiting space (54:20) The benefit of being emotionally stable (56:20) Kevin’s investment portfolio — Links:

• Kevin’s Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinryan3/
• AlleyCorp - https://alleycorp.com/
• Business Insider - https://www.businessinsider.com/
• Henry Blodget - https://twitter.com/hblodget
• MongoDB - https://www.mongodb.com/
• Gilt - https://www.gilt.com/
• The Ladders - https://www.theladders.com/
• RippleMatch - https://ripplematch.com/

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🎤 SPEAKERS

• Sam Parr

  host

  Co-host of My First Million and entrepreneur (The Hustle founder).

• Kevin Ryan

  guest

  Billionaire entrepreneur/investor; former DoubleClick CEO and co-founder of AlleyCorp.

• Shaan Puri

  host

  Co-host of My First Million and entrepreneur/investor.

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of My First Million, featuring Sam Parr and Kevin Ryan, How This Billionaire Founder Finds +$20B Business Ideas | Kevin Ryan Interview (#495) explores kevin Ryan on Building Billion-Dollar Companies Through His Studio Model Kevin Ryan recounts his path from DoubleClick, which Google bought for about $3 billion, to founding or co-founding Business Insider, MongoDB, Gilt, Zola and other companies through AlleyCorp.

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