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Bill Thompson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1662 total appearances

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The Joe Rogan Experience
#2473 - Bill Thompson

So when I started the company, we started our first Instagram and my marketing team started my first Instagram account.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2473 - Bill Thompson

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.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2473 - Bill Thompson

We don't sell their data.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2473 - Bill Thompson

We don't sell emails.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2473 - Bill Thompson

I can make a half million dollars off my email list tomorrow, and I've been offered that money.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2473 - Bill Thompson

We've got millions of emails from people who have signed up for our apps.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2473 - Bill Thompson

Other companies who are starting companies, they want to go out and reach marketing people.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2473 - Bill Thompson

So if you're starting another hunting app, maybe for cameras or for...

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2473 - Bill Thompson

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.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2473 - Bill Thompson

So they'd pay me a lot of money for those emails.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2473 - Bill Thompson

I will never do that.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2473 - Bill Thompson

I'll never sell my company's emails, the people's emails.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2473 - Bill Thompson

I'll never do any of those things because the product is the product for my company.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2473 - Bill Thompson

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.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2473 - Bill Thompson

So the basis of Android, the nuts โ€“ think of it as the nuts and bolts.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2473 - Bill Thompson

I'll try not to talk in too technical terms here.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2473 - Bill Thompson

But the basic framework, think about it like a car.