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Timothy Sykes

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
352 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 445: $20M in 2015 Infoproduct Revenue With "Degenerate" Customers with Timothy Sykes

Oh yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 445: $20M in 2015 Infoproduct Revenue With "Degenerate" Customers with Timothy Sykes

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 445: $20M in 2015 Infoproduct Revenue With "Degenerate" Customers with Timothy Sykes

Is that what you're talking about?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 445: $20M in 2015 Infoproduct Revenue With "Degenerate" Customers with Timothy Sykes

So overnight it did that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 445: $20M in 2015 Infoproduct Revenue With "Degenerate" Customers with Timothy Sykes

And then the next morning it goes to 50.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 445: $20M in 2015 Infoproduct Revenue With "Degenerate" Customers with Timothy Sykes

And it was just crazy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 445: $20M in 2015 Infoproduct Revenue With "Degenerate" Customers with Timothy Sykes

I was actually trying to short it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 445: $20M in 2015 Infoproduct Revenue With "Degenerate" Customers with Timothy Sykes

I couldn't find shares to short.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 445: $20M in 2015 Infoproduct Revenue With "Degenerate" Customers with Timothy Sykes

This is one of the problems with my strategy that it's not very scalable.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 445: $20M in 2015 Infoproduct Revenue With "Degenerate" Customers with Timothy Sykes

Even if I spot an absolute scam, I can only probably bet a few thousand shares, sometimes like 10 or 20,000 shares against the stock.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 445: $20M in 2015 Infoproduct Revenue With "Degenerate" Customers with Timothy Sykes

So I've made a few.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 445: $20M in 2015 Infoproduct Revenue With "Degenerate" Customers with Timothy Sykes

So getting shares to short, you need to find brokers that have locates.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 445: $20M in 2015 Infoproduct Revenue With "Degenerate" Customers with Timothy Sykes

Shorting requires basically a loan from your broker.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 445: $20M in 2015 Infoproduct Revenue With "Degenerate" Customers with Timothy Sykes

And when there's an absolute scam, I'm not saying AQXP is a scam, but when there's an absolute scam, like a pump and dump, like the things that you see in Wolf of Wall Street, everybody wants to short it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 445: $20M in 2015 Infoproduct Revenue With "Degenerate" Customers with Timothy Sykes

And there aren't that many shares to short.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 445: $20M in 2015 Infoproduct Revenue With "Degenerate" Customers with Timothy Sykes

So I can never make like a billion dollars with my strategy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 445: $20M in 2015 Infoproduct Revenue With "Degenerate" Customers with Timothy Sykes

My strategy is ideal for people with small accounts.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 445: $20M in 2015 Infoproduct Revenue With "Degenerate" Customers with Timothy Sykes

And that's why I

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 445: $20M in 2015 Infoproduct Revenue With "Degenerate" Customers with Timothy Sykes

teach.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 445: $20M in 2015 Infoproduct Revenue With "Degenerate" Customers with Timothy Sykes

Correct.