Ryan Petersen
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Podcast Appearances
And we had such interesting data about companies.
was searching in the data set for Apple shipments and saw its public record.
You can look it up.
Saw that they were importing a new product they'd never imported before called an electric computer, which is very interesting.
All computers are electric.
It was like a silly name.
Um, and it was a perfect storm, perfect moment.
Everybody knew it was already being rumored that the 3g iPhone was arriving.
I didn't even know if it was right.
I just put out this blog post being like, Apple has this new thing.
Maybe it's the 3g iPhone.
Um, and it went very viral.
We got within a week, we were doing like $50,000 in monthly revenue, um,
Like all of a sudden, you know, from zero to 50,000 in a couple of weeks.
And I got a call from U.S.
Customs saying, hey, we just talked to Steve Jobs and he's really pissed about this.
You need to explain where you got this data.
Sort of like threatening to shut us down.
Like, so I showed him the letter.