I can't believe he gave away these $1M+/year startup ideas
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The last thing that I really look for is distribution hacks and formats. So for instance, if you can break the TikTok algo, then the scale at which products can grow is just so immensely huge. That's definitely like a big thing that I look for.
So, and I think there's probably a thousand startup ideas that you can do just by looking at what's trending on TikTok in terms of challenges and making it easier for those people to do those challenges.
But yeah, that's generally the thesis.
Yeah. I mean, the thesis is algorithm breaking products. That's the stuff that's going to get shared and it's stuff that's going to, you know, really works now. So I do like that thesis. Okay. New character unlocked. Near. I had to... I stalked you on the internet because I saw that you posted some banger ideas. Verified bangers. And I was like, I need to get this guy on the pod sharing the ideas. Give the people what they want. And you said okay. Thank you. Thank you for coming. So all I know from you are those ideas that you shared. And... They are some of the most interesting ideas that I have seen in a long time. And I see a lot of startup ideas. So I was hoping you could just take us through some of them.
You know, what the idea is, why you think it's interesting, how you'd start them, how you'd grow them. Just give people all that sauce. And let's run.
So we can start top of the list if we want to just kind of work our way down. So the first idea was something called Baby Fund. And the principle of Baby Fund was basically a just giving for parents to raise money for their kids. And that money can only be invested in index tracker funds. And the idea is... if you invest X amount of money and you maybe keep topping it up, by the time the child is 18, that money will be worth quite a lot of money. And the reason why I thought about it was a whole confluence of different things. So I'm at the age now where all of my friends are thinking about having kids or deciding, oh no, I can't afford to have kids. And then you hear all of the discussions around the demographic worries in the Western world. cost of childcare, at least in the UK, is a really significant problem and something that is putting off a lot of millennial potential parents. So that kind of drew me to the problem in the first place. And the second thing I was thinking about was, do you know the idea of wedding registries?
Is that a thing that you guys have?
Yeah, it's a thing. From what I understand, it's a lot less popular today than it was 20 years ago. Um, yeah, but it's still a thing.
It's still definitely a thing. And a wedding registry is basically two people are going to get married. They send around a link to all of the, uh, all the people attending being like, here's a list of all the things you could buy for us, um, for our wedding. You know, it's a fancy plate. It's a nice spoon. It's a honeymoon. I've always really disliked it. I've always kind of felt like this is a really stupid thing to do. Anyway, it happens. But the idea of it is quite interesting because you're crowdsourcing these people to contribute to your future as a married couple. So I was thinking, well, what about if you take that principle and apply it to money going towards a newborn baby and their future?
Yeah, the idea is really crowdsourcing money from parents and friends of parents to invest in that baby's future. And the money can only be used for investing in index tracker funds. It can't be taken out before then. It will go in the name of the child. And yeah, I think it's pretty interesting because I do what you say as well around like crawling into the subreddits. And when you kind of crawl into the subreddits of like, you know, parenting and parents, just cost of that is a big worry. And also just, can I guarantee or can I provide for my child? Like, will I be able to ensure my child has access a reasonable standard of living in 18 years and when i can't do that for myself like when i worry about my own standard of living in 18 years um you know the the probability that i could do it for my child is a lot lower so the principle is that um yeah yeah so when would
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