rudyrupak

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Oct 3

I am serial entrepreneur who has had a some crazy luck of being ahead of the curb. I sold my first company to COREL when I was just 17 years old (it was a desktop publishing template). I produced a feature film for Columbia Pictures (Snowboard Academy: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117676/), my production company was called Millennium Multimedia and we were mistaken by IATA to be a Y2K company, so we became one. I created a software called the Millennium Bug Toolkit which was allegedly installed (for free) in 1 out of every 4 computers prior to Dec 31 1999. Our company went public but I was fired for calling Y2K bullshit in Aug 1999 and became the founding CTO of American Apparel. In 2002 I created the world's first medical tourism company. It was very successful initially but I flew too close to the sun and destroyed it. After three years of dealing with my failure and building apps for others, I am now out there being a CTO/App developer for others while working on my next big thing.

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Comment · 7 years ago

believe it or not, Ogilvy on Advertising. No it is not a coding book but it gives great insight on what makes good design.

Comment · 7 years ago

Sounds like you are de-motivated. If you leave this position you essentially lose your safety net and you need to ask yourself is it worth it. Find your passion, make it cashflow passively and then you can leave risk free.

Comment · 7 years ago

The ability to share a contact from one mobile phone to another. Blackberry could not do it without sending a text and neither can iOS and Android.

Comment · 7 years ago

I am building a tutoring app for a Chinese client and they are now freaking out. I don't think they should worry, Huawei needs Android and vice versa, they will work it out.

Comment · 7 years ago

You are brilliant, you are also brilliantly misunderstood. What you are offering here is a partial statement in coding parlance. If you wish to DM me I would be delighted to speak to you more but let me help you through this based on what data you have inputted. You don't have low self confidence, you have low risk tolerance. The fact that you can code, and I presume code well, means you have skills. I would like to collaborate with you to work on something, anything of your choice, and make it work, I will push you to take risks as a stranger who will be your cheerleader. I am doing this because I too have been like you, and sometimes still am. I am not sure if this is allowed but try me at [email protected] with the subject line: I am ready to take a risk.