Bill Thompson
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So when I started the company, we started our first Instagram and my marketing team started my first Instagram account.
and I had to start uploading things and talking about how I felt about things because I wanted people to know that this company was not going to be like the other companies that are out there.
We don't sell their data.
I can make a half million dollars off my email list tomorrow, and I've been offered that money.
We've got millions of emails from people who have signed up for our apps.
Other companies who are starting companies, they want to go out and reach marketing people.
So if you're starting another hunting app, maybe for cameras or for...
a call or a tricky call or an out call or something and you found Spartan Forge and you said, man, they've got two million emails, I could pay them a half million dollars for that two million dollars and start some top of line marketing, top of funnel marketing.
So they'd pay me a lot of money for those emails.
I'll never sell my company's emails, the people's emails.
I'll never do any of those things because the product is the product for my company.
Not now, but what I still can use and what I still do use is Android also publishes their framework in an open source fashion where you can look at the โ it's called AOSP, Android Open Source Project.
So the basis of Android, the nuts โ think of it as the nuts and bolts.
I'll try not to talk in too technical terms here.
But the basic framework, think about it like a car.