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My First MillionThis App Entrepreneur Made $10,000,000 By Cloning A Viral Game
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EPISODE INFO
- Released
- February 8, 2022
- Duration
- 54m
- 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 - Sam Parr (@theSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) are joined by Ben Levy (@BenMLevy to discuss the story of the World copycat who topped the app store charts and then lost everything, Shaan and Ben's new project, Milk Road, and how to pick your next project. Find out more about Milk Road at MilkRoad.com. — 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 ----- Show Notes: (00:00) - Wordle copycats (23:00) - The many businesses of Pomp (34:30) - Why what you do and who you do it with is more important than how hard you work (41:15) - Focusing on the things that give you energy
SPEAKERS
Ben Levy
guestApp entrepreneur who built and discussed the viral Wordle-clone app story and related app-store/trademark dynamics.
Sam Parr
hostCo-host of My First Million and entrepreneur (founder of The Hustle).
Shaan Puri
hostCo-host of My First Million and entrepreneur (co-creator of the Milk Road crypto newsletter).
EPISODE SUMMARY
In this episode of My First Million, featuring Ben Levy and Sam Parr, This App Entrepreneur Made $10,000,000 By Cloning A Viral Game explores Wordle clone fallout sparks debate on building in public and identity Ben Levy recounts how Zach Shaked cloned Wordle into a weekend-built mobile app that went viral, then became a public ethics controversy that ended with Apple pulling down Wordle-named apps.
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