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Tim Fargo

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
126 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Filed Bankrupt Then Made Millions

Actually, I've got to go in a minute.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Filed Bankrupt Then Made Millions

You know, I mean, working on investments and doing things, you know, it's nice to have a great cash out and stuff, but, you know, there's only so much, you know, kind of leisure time you can sort of ingest without, you know, starting to get bored.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Filed Bankrupt Then Made Millions

So the idea was to come out with this thing and just to be a little more active.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Filed Bankrupt Then Made Millions

I mean, I wasn't, from the beginning, I wasn't really looking to necessarily get into anything full-time, but that obviously changed.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Filed Bankrupt Then Made Millions

anybody that writes a book to make money is likely to be highly disappointed.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Filed Bankrupt Then Made Millions

Oh, if I've made two grand in two years, that'd be a miracle.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Filed Bankrupt Then Made Millions

It actually relates to the book.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Filed Bankrupt Then Made Millions

It's a perfect segue because what happened is I had the book out.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Filed Bankrupt Then Made Millions

I'm trying to develop awareness about it, so I'm doing that on social media.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Filed Bankrupt Then Made Millions

My preferred channel was Twitter.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Filed Bankrupt Then Made Millions

And what I very quickly found out is if you want to tweet a fair amount so that you can sort of capture a lot of attention...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Filed Bankrupt Then Made Millions

there's a heck of a lot of scheduling involved.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Filed Bankrupt Then Made Millions

So, you know, that was taking more and more time and I was on the road and, you know, I'm trying to coordinate all these different things and actually responding to people and using the social aspect of social media.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Filed Bankrupt Then Made Millions

So it got to, I said, okay, this is it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Filed Bankrupt Then Made Millions

And I knew, you know, Twitter and API.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Filed Bankrupt Then Made Millions

So I contacted the guy, he was actually the first guy I worked for out of college and also the guy that was the head of my IT at Omega.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Filed Bankrupt Then Made Millions

You got to build me something here so that I can have databases of content and they can tweet automatically without me having to run around.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Filed Bankrupt Then Made Millions

And that's, I mean, that's how the product was born.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Filed Bankrupt Then Made Millions

It was born out of me having a problem and fixing it.