Ash Kumar

So I was like, you know,

I did not, but I've spoken there.

That's so ironic, but, uh, I'd love to, you know, work with them.

I went to, I, my alma mater is UC Irvine.

So I hit up the student government.

I hit up the entrepreneurship club.

I hit up, um, the computer science business plan competition.

I was like,

here's my pitch normally the book is 14 bucks i'll give it to you for like 9.99 or hey if you do the ebook here's like a 30 off code all i need you to do is promote it and i will come speak or do a webinar in return and this is my value you're going to get for free and that's what i did awesome awesome awesome okay let's go back to the speaking real quick so how many just give us some context in 2015 what was total speaking revenue just for you

To be honest, I have taken down a lot of speaking, but I made about, I don't know, a little under six figures.

Let's say the average is divided by 5,000.

Um, because I didn't want to over inflate myself.

I'm actually working on a new book.

So I wanted to give a little break.

It's kind of like Apple, they launch a product and then like they take a little break and then they launch a big bang like a year later.

I'm kind of doing that approach.

speaking what else yes primarily it's speaking and then one of the things that happened with my book success and my speaking is that i've been able to advise a lot of startups so i've been able to either get a flat fee which i can't explain i can't divulge the numbers on that either a flat fee or equity participation but i've had a couple successes on that so it's been good my specialty just to just to get just to get a nutshell is i'm the pitch guy like i can make your pitch the most fundable pitch that's what i specialize in interesting what name a company that helped get funding

There's a, there's a socially good app called my open road.

So basically in a nutshell, they give you social currency points.

Anytime you do something that's saving carbon emissions, like driving a bike, riding a Tesla, you know, roller skating, and then you can redeem those points at a local vendor for like food discounts.