Elon Musk is wrong. Remote work wins.

How I built an elite app development team:

If you have an idea, start brainstorming.
If you have a goal, start working on it now.
If you're waiting for the perfect moment, stop.
It’s already here.
Start now, and make it happen.

#founderlife #entrepreneurship

Now back to the story.

Evidence on Ross's laptop:

• 144,000 Bitcoins ($86M)
• Complete chat logs
• Personal diary
• Site's accounting sheets

May 29, 2015: At 32, Ross gets two life sentences without parole.

That changed when Trump came into power and pardoned him.

From his bedroom in San Francisco's Glen Park, Ross built Silk Road.

It grew to:

• 1M+ user accounts
• $300,000 in daily trades
• $13M in personal commission

Ross gets a big idea.

He'd build an anonymous marketplace combining:

• Tor network for hidden browsing
• Bitcoin for untraceable payments

The first product was 5kg of psychedelic mushrooms he grew himself in a borrowed country house.

In 2010, Ross hit rock bottom.

His investment company failed. His game studio flopped.

He had left a promising career as a scientist to be an entrepreneur and came up empty-handed.

Then something happened...

Born in Austin in 1984. Ross was the golden child:

• Eagle Scout by 17
• Physics degree in 2006
• Masters in materials science

But Ross wanted to be something bigger.

• Split your budget 60/40
• Put 60% into marketing to get users onboard
• Use 40% to keep improving the app

Even if your current app isn't perfect, focus on proving market fit before investing more in development.

Many app development agencies use interns to save costs.

It's wrong.

The client deserves better.

💡 What Founders Think They Need to Build Their First MVP:
💰 A Big Investment — Many believe launching an MVP requires a huge budget. But that’s far from the truth.
🕒 Extensive Development Time — Founders think they need months or even years of development time to get started. But guess what? It can

By 2019, Facebook was paying users aged 13-35 up to $20/month in gift cards.

Not for market research.

But to install their "research VPN" that could read ALL their encrypted traffic.

What Facebook Did Through Onavo

They built custom software to:

• Create fake digital certificates
• Install root certificates on phones
• Decrypt secure traffic from competitors

What data did they steal?