10 months ago, I took the risk to build instead of college. Today, I have: - an investor - 3 employees - 9K MRR (updated) Seeing how fast I can scale to my first 100k in revenue. Goal is to do it by the summer. Follow along for the journey!

Everything I’ve learned building instead of college boiled down to one word would be: Speed.

AI forced me to skip college. 6 months after starting the journey, I have > 10k mrr > performing at Sydney opera house > 5 teammates > fully backing investor > incredible network > best learning experience of my life Keep building!

I feel like the main problem with the agency model is simply that it’s so incredibly hyper competitive. It’s almost like the new dropshipping…barrier to entry effectively just a bunch of YouTube videos and a laptop. Like yes you can get some decent cash flow but your prospects have heard the same cold email pitch 100s of times And churn is naturally high given business owners high time preference and impatience with digital marketing taking time to show results

im going to make whoop for schooling. I’m 18 and skipping college, and believe everyone deserves to see a highly tracked case study measuring all the possible data points of uni vs no uni The tracking will begin in July, and continue until spring 2029…when I would’ve graduated! The self built curriculum is simply building businesses. As many as I can, as well as I can. First is an agency model to learn the core skills of marketing, sales, ops, etc. Then take those skills and go apply to a bigger platform.

Hot take: Universities charge $300,000 for a degree that teaches you skills any LLM can do for free. At some point we need to have an honest conversation about whether higher education is the greatest individuals misallocation of capital in recent history.

I’m 18, not going to college, and have to figure out how to get 5 new retainer clients in the next 60 days… Ideas: > cold cakes > cold approaching people in public to see if they own a service biz > have Claude run meta ads

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guys I think we have a Claudia Roussel 2.0 situation on our hands has to be AI

My name is Karu, I’m 18, and I’m building a platform called Self Taught vs Stanford. The thesis is that an AI & relationship-first, obsessive approach to building a career and business can outperform and produce more incredible people than a Stanford degree. I am running this experiment on myself, by skipping college to build businesses instead. 12 months after graduating (only 5 of running a business), I have reached - $9K MRR - an investor - had lunch with 20 business owners - hired 3 full time employees, 5 people on team total The goal is $30k mrr by end of year. Chad, my simulated Stanford peer, will have $0 mrr. Public self taught vs Stanford dashboard linked down below. Check it out in its early stages, would love feedback!

pretend you know what you don't know and you will find out... this is very true in a weird subconscious way. trying to be a founder? literally imagine you're some cracked founder and think of what they would do in any situation you're in I do this basically every day because of how many times I come across scenarios where I am unsure of how to proceed, lead, build, market, etc etc ... and swear to god it works every time. even sometimes faking confidence around certain topics. because then people won't hold back from talking about it themselves, and you can go and learn all the cool shit they talked about later on. this is partly how I got to the stage of 3 employees a year out of college. I didn't know a thing about management, building a startup, digital marketing, none. but I was confident, took in all info, and acted like I knew, and it led to the greatest learning experience of my life.

Saturdays have to be the best day of the week to work. no slack, no meetings that could've been an email, and just a wide open slate to actually work ON the business. I'm 18 building instead of college, would have only half the progress I do without working weekend

If LLMs are just fancy databases then humans are no different

New chief of staff absolutely dialed in even on pool day Trying to aestheticize the grind

opus 4.8 dropped, so naturally pool day turned into work day

a year ago I took the risk to skip college and build businesses instead. Today, I have: - an investor - 3 employees - 9K MRR - two warm prospects (trying to close) the goal is to hit $30k mrr by the end of the year... Follow along for the journey!

I'm 18, and building the most automated relationship-building system there is. Not to sell, but to leverage relationships to compound every other area of my life. The first step to that is having lunch with 150 business owners. Here's what that looks like: Yesterday I had lunch 21/150, with the an older gentleman who has had a life full of experience in startups. He talked about his journey out of the Air Force during Vietnam, and into big corporate. He was content. But the moment he got a taste of startup life, he was addicted...he could never go back. He taught me concepts around how to lead and not just manage, how entrepreneurship will always be hugely difficult, but the trade off is that it can be incredibly rewarding. He now runs multiple CEO peer groups just for the love of the game.

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