Adrian Thompson

I hired a guy to create the MVP.

That was in 2015.

So we're almost... This is fascinating.

How'd you find him?

A friend.

So I grew or I was living in the Bay Area.

I knew a UI designer was a friend I went to church with and he worked at a company and he knew many developers.

He's a UI designer at this company and he knew his friend wanted to

do some freelance work a lot a lot there's a lot of bored developers in the bay area at the time because they're just doing boring corporate stuff and when they hear somebody starting an mvp they kind of want to just do it because there's less you know red tape they can kind of be creative and do their thing so what'd you what'd you pay him to get the mvp off 15 grand to get it off the ground wow so i thought it was reasonable yeah where'd you get that i mean look where'd you from the studio so i mean i've you know i've operated the studio since 2012 and i grew it um

I saved my money, and I've always known I wanted to invest in something like this.

This wasn't my first passive income project.

My first step into digital products was creating scripts for Adobe After Effects, which are just ways to automate tasks that After Effects didn't build natively into the system.

So I hired a guy to create a couple of those, and that gave me...

a couple like $1,000 in monthly passive income.

So I was able to keep stashing stuff away.

I would create a savings.

Being a studio or a business owner the first five years is pretty unpredictable.

So I like to have cash on the side.

And that's what I decided this was the time to do something, take my swing essentially.

I couldn't, I couldn't, and I have three kids and a wife.