22 Year Old Genius Built $1 Billion Company | Samir Vasavada

Samir Vasavada started a company at 16 and brought it to $1B by his 20s. In this conversation, we discuss starting Vise, if founders need to be "crazy" to succeed, investments from Sequoia, and advice Samir has for young founders.

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TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 - On This Episode..
0:45 - Kanye West And Crazy Founders
2:45 - What Makes A Founder Crazy?
4:30 - Crazy As You’re Younger - Being Naive
5:00 - App Building A.I. And It’s Incredibly Complex Problem
7:15 - How This A.I. Service Is Built
10:00 - Scale A.I. - Data Labeling, Machine Learning
14:30 - Recommendation Algorithms
18:40 - Sentiment Accuracy
21:05 - *EIGHT SLEEP - Improve Your Sleep Now!*
22:00 - Starting The Company at 16
25:45 - Breaking Into The Wealth Management Space
30:30 - Jaime Dimon
34:15 - Quitting High School
37:20 - Mistakes Made Running A Business At 16
41:30 - Sequoia Investing In Company
45:00 - Fixing Generic Investment Strategy
50:00 - Mutual Funds Record Outflows
52:30 - *ALTO IRA - Crypto In Your Retirement Account!*
53:00 - Size of Robinhood Accounts
56:45 - Building Specified Advisor Strategies
57:45 - Bitcoin & Crypto Is A Tiny Market
1:00:30 - OKRs
1:03:30 - Communicating Changes To Team
1:06:30 - Having Big Investor Is Blessing & Curse
1:11:00 - Advice Overload
1:13:00 - Delegating Responsibilities
1:17:00 - Leadership Group
1:18:45 - Culture Training
1:22:00 - Advice To Young Founders - What You Wish You Knew?
1:24:00 - Where To Find Online

[AnthonyPompliano]

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[mzallocc]

Watched the whole interview.
Impressive maturity from someone so young.

[anthonyward]

Super smart guy, love the way Pomp interviews and lets the conversation flows, hats off gents!

[henripereira]

What an impressive intellect. Explains things so clearly and logically. I’m a fan

[NjoyMoney]

Pretty impressive, when i was 22 i was the 3rd best druid in my world of warcraft guild, so i know exactly how this guy feels

[randysingh]

Great interview. Samir is very intelligent and successful, looking forward to big things from him in the future.

[arina]

Honestly it’s a great interview! Thank to both participants! I did not have such clear vision and understanding of things at my 22!))

[dynamics]

“If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.”
Henry Ford

[richardc]

Yo I know this kid! I met him at a bitcoin conference we were running around Partying all over Miami at the North American bitcoin conference in 2017 I believe. Didn’t know he was running a billion dollar company, but makes sense why he was trying to find someone to buy $100, 000, 000 worth of Bitcoin. 😂 I’m the same age as him and his friends and my friends were some of the youngest people at the conference and we linked up. We were slipping bouncers $100 bills to get in the clubs. I remember Samir, good times bro glad to see you’re doing well.

[finolam]

What an amazing perspective from such a young man. Very impressive!!!

[TusharKale]

Man learned so much from a humble person. Thank you for sharing

[mmalcolm]

Best interview yet pomp. Great conversation and insight into the business world. If I ever get off my ass and start my business this interview has helped tremendously.

[jonothen]

This hit the spot Pomp
Thanks for having the Vasavada in

[RajinderSingh-oqte]

@01:07:00 that's the point. That's the experience. He nailed it there, the essence of this interview.

[colorwrld]

i like this guy, very smart..."after high valuation, you attract talent but the wrong talent"

[AquanautSt]

Dope interview right from the start . Awesome !

[techutopiareviews]

awesome ninja to interview, this is your best interview Anthony, way better than Tates.
Good job
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[rajivpatel]

Great interview, lot to learn from it! Keep up the good work pomp! Nothing premeditated and alway original! Kid has taken risk from young age and not boxed himself to traditional routes!

Somebody is loosing money on other side while
his company product is being rewarded from broken traditional systems! Of course retaining existing customers are always challenging for every business. It’s like finding the ocean and now learn how to drain liquidity from it!

Samir found that ocean full of money and figured out on harvesting!

[MyLocalGunShop]

Another banger interview. Have you considered covering the topic of firearms & the 2nd Amendment?

[nikolajmadsen]

What a beast. Very impressive and smart. Cheers for the content.