Zeb Evans

I have, I have some type of story of a hustle.

Um, but I actually was, I was, I had a mobile DJ company, an entertainment company, and

And a friend and I of mine, we were managing some rappers.

Actually, we were at Virginia Tech and we were managing a couple of rappers.

This was after my monorail days.

And there was a problem that we noticed where like in big events, and this is, I don't, maybe it's not a problem anymore, but when there's 10,000 people in one space, you didn't have cell phone service back then.

And you couldn't send out tweets.

And we were managing these rappers' social media.

You couldn't send out tweets.

And so that's where my brain got spinning where I wanted to just like being able to automate sending out tweets.

And then I wanted to be able to look at who's following you.

Back then they didn't have APIs to do that.

Twitter didn't have their own reporting platform to do that.

And so I kind of just built things that scraped your follower list and was able to show like who's following you.

You can automate engagement with people.

And so we kind of, it was a SaaS model before I knew what SaaS was.

We started getting people paying a monthly subscription.

And then it turned into more of what we found the real money was in was managing more high profile celebrities, social accounts in order to gain followers, gain engagement, and increase the quality of their content based on who was following them.

Several million dollars.

I did not sell it.