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Ariel Camus, a product builder, 500 startups alumni and the CEO and Founder of TouristEye, acquired by Lonely Planet in 2013. Today, Ariel is building a new education system called HackerPath that utilizes collaboration between peers and bots.

Famous Five:

• Favorite Book? \u2013 Founders at Work
• What CEO do you follow? \u2013

• Favorite online tool? \u2014 Google Apps
• Do you get 8 hours of sleep?\u2014 No
• If you could let your 20 year old self know one thing, what would it be? \u2013 \u201cRelax, you\u2019re doing well. Have more fun\u201d

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Time Stamped Show Notes:

• 01:12 \u2013 Nathan introduces Ariel to the show
• 01:35 \u2013 TouristEye is Ariel\u2019s first company and exited it in 2013
• 01:45 \u2013 TouristEye is a travel guide for mobile devices with all information offline
• • 02:03 \u2013 Revenue is from referral fees and premium features in application
  • 02:24 \u2013 Raised funding for TouristEye
  • 02:55 \u2013 Acquisition price of Lonely Planet
  • 03:18 \u2013 Why did you sell TouristEye?
• 04:50 \u2013 Ariel was 26 when he sold TouristEye
• 05:00 \u2013 Ariel joined Lonely Planet after selling TouristEye
• 06:00 \u2013 Ariel is starting a new project related to teaching
• • 06:30 \u2013 Building a new platform online
  • 06:46 \u2013 The project is called HackerPath
  • 07:04 \u2013 Still in the process of building the database
  • 07:18 \u2013 Goal is to make it open to everyone
  • 07:37 \u2013 Recruiters are charging companies a 20% fee
  • 07:53 \u2013 Currently pre-revenue
• 08:20 \u2013 No retainers for TouristEye
• 09:00 \u2013 \u201cDo something you really love. Don\u2019t waste time and just do it\u201d
• 09:24 \u2013 Ariel and his friends talk about ideas and how to make to make it happen
• 10:00 \u2013 What salary would be giving up should you decide to quit completely?
• • 10:12 \u2013 A 6-digit salary
• 10:35 \u2013 \u201cI can start a new business and pay developers to help me\u201d
• 11:04 \u2013 Most of the money that were spent so far was for an experiment that was launched last week called Coderoulette
• • 11:25 \u2013 Did it to validate the interest
  • 11:33 \u2013 Did well on the launched
  • 11:45 \u2013 Used existing technologies
• 12:00 \u2013 Put in $ 10-15,000 for the project
• 12:19 \u2013 Connect with Ariel through Twitter
• 13:30 \u2013 The Famous Five

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3 Key Points:

• Do something you really love. Don\u2019t waste time and just do it.
• Selling a business is a crucial choice \u2013 make sure you won\u2019t regret it.
• Relax and have more fun.

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Resources Mentioned:

• Toptal\xa0\u2013 Nathan found his development team using Toptal\xa0 for his new business Send Later. He was able to keep 100% equity and didn\u2019t have to hire a co-founder due to quality of Toptal\xa0 developers.
• Host Gator\xa0\u2013 The site Nathan uses to buy his domain names and hosting for cheapest price possible.
• Freshbooks\xa0\u2013 The site Nathan uses to manage his invoices and accounts.
• Leadpages\xa0 \u2013 The drag and drop tool Nathan uses to quickly create his webinar landing pages which convert at 35%+
• Audible\xa0\u2013 Nathan uses Audible when he\u2019s driving from Austin to San Antonio (1.5 hour drive) to listen to audio books.
• Assistant.to \u2013 The site Nathan uses to book meetings with one email.
• @arielcamus\xa0 - Ariel\u2019s Twitter handle
• Show Notes provided by Mallard Creatives