I then brought in three of my friends to help me build the most innovative video platform, and I met up with Arya

We secretly hate each other and constantly compare our dick size.

Oh me? I just sold another company

I'm just relaxing now. Trying to figure out what you do next

Yeah, uh I'm excited but

I'm also afraid

It's just getting really hard

You know managing all these relationships at once

It's..it's getting too hard

What excites you about the relationship you have with your employees?

Wait, what? No, I was talking about my tinder relationship. God you never listen to me

But to be honest, I just can't get Arya off my mind

Who's Arya?

Oh he's just some startup founder. Uh we recently played chess-

He's 'just' a startup founder?

I think he means more to you than that

We used to be best friends

But then things changed

Things really changed

Can you tell me a little bit about your relationship with Joma?

You know we were friends then

Best friends even

How'd you guys meet?

He was in the study room struggling with a simple assignment

But I knew he was smarter than that

He came up to me offering his help

Thank God cause I just couldn't focus. I was about to give up

Something else was consuming him. I could see that he was pretty broken at the time

So I thought I could bring him under my wing

I gave him a better place to stay, better resources, better contacts, a better life

Nobody wanted to give him a chance, but I saw the potential in him

He was kind to me

extremely kind

I didn't deserve it

He let me stay with him in his apartment

He gave me my own room

He even got me all the textbooks I needed for school

He really took me out of the dumps

You know

He even guided me through my academic career

Without him, I would have been lost.

He's the reason why I am...who I am today

From algorithms to statistics to cryptocurrencies

He taught me everything

He made sure I knew the right things

He made sure I succeeded

He would have been nothing without me. All those internships.

He got those through me...except Microsoft. That was more him

That's thoughtful

I wanted the best for him. I really did

I did everything I could for him

until the incident

What happened?

I should have known

I feel so stupid looking back

I just couldn't face the truth

I don't know. I mean...he just changed

He used to be kind and warm, but...

I think one day I just realized that he wasn't the selfless person I thought he was

He even kicked me out of the house. I mean I appreciate everything he's done for me

But I mean come on man where the fuck was I supposed to go. He knew I had nothing

You know I should have known...people like him, they don't hang out with people like me

How did you feel?

- It was humiliating - It was humiliating

I miss Arya, I really do

Even if he had exterior motives to bring me in

I was really happy

I still don't know what he wanted from me, but obviously I didn't have it anymore

That's why he just pushed me away

I didn't ask why I mean, I didn't deserve his kindness

But things just got worse

And that's where he crossed the line

I've never confronted him about it because it just wouldn't matter

I don't want his apology

I just wanted to break him

While making him feel the pain that I felt

Until he's completely broken

I'll make him regret everything that he did

Alright guys, so...today I paid a consultant to make this video for us

It's gonna tell us you know how to think about MVPs, so

What's the MVP? You mean like LeBron?

- Wait what's a LeBron? - Oh he's the MVP

Alright whatever. Alright, let's just play the video

So the biggest problem that startups run into is

Creating something that nobody wants to buy

This wastes years of work and thousands of dollars only to leave you broke and unemployed

Just like a college degree

So to stop this from happening

I thought I'd go over the concept of an MVP, and how this can help you grow your company

So what is an MVP? This often gets confused with most valuable player

But I think that comparison is kind of unfair because

If you're trying to start a startup, chances are you have zero athletic ability

Instead MVP here means minimum viable product

A rough version of your idea that takes a minimal amount of effort

But it's still good enough that users can get a taste of the full product

Similar to how dating someone is sort of a taste

Of what marriage will be like and in my case I've been told it taste like insecurity and an absentee father

Now the reason you want to build an MVP is because it lets you learn what your customers

like and don't like as quickly as possible

This is a pretty important concept because 90% of startups fail because they have no clue what their customers want

Like this one time I was sitting at

McDonald's and thought of a really good app idea.

It involved the dating app where girls would choose guys based only on their personality and

Finally give nice guys a fighting chance, but then I asked myself

"Would I date someone based only on their personality?"

I'll let you decide

Now I'm sure you're wondering what an MVP looks like the answer to that

Depends on what you're trying to build so I thought it'd be helpful to show a few real-life examples

Let's say you wanted to build an app where people could store and share files online

You could do one of two things

One, quit your job and spend years trying to make the app yourself or two, hire someone to create a 30-second video of

What that app would look like and show it to investors for millions of dollars

While option 1 sounds attractive

The MVP here is too, and that's what Dropbox did

Well let's say you wanted to figure out if a girl or guy liked you

Your MVP here would be a small low pressure invite like

"Hey, I'm going out to dinner with friends. Do you want to come along?

We're grabbing pizza -smiley face-" And a few things can happen here

One, she won't respond to you. Two, she says something short like haha or lol. Or three, she says

"No, I thought I told you I'm not interested"

when this happens you might try to convince yourself

that she's still into you, but chances are...

she is into you so just wait a few days and try again

So by now you're probably wondering how to actually build an MVP

And that's exactly what I'm going to show you

Now the steps I'll be outlining might seem simple at first,

but there's a bit of math involved

So you'll need to pay close attention

And just before we start

I thought I should mention that these steps are approved by the International Board of start-up venture capitalists

Which means rest assured

It's coming from a source of authority so without further ado, here are the steps to building your first MVP

Step 1. Don't, we have enough startups already

So I hope that was helpful and best of luck in your startup journey

-Clapping-

John, no

Alright, so what do you guys think?

We need to start off by building our back-end infrastructure

We can leverage Amazon CDN's, load balancers and lambda's. Modularize our infrastructure by using micro services

so then we can set up elastic scaling AND save money.

I don't think we should do that.

It's the most cost efficient solution

Well, we don't even know if we're going to get that many users. It's a total overkill

Yes, it might save some capital

but development time is our most limited resource and we can't waste time thinking about

Scalability on an MVP

Right now our most limited resource is my patience with your shitty ideas

Why can't we just have a Facebook page and let people post their videos there and see if that grows

That's actually a really good and smart MVP,

BUT for the sake of this web series

we have to do something more complicated

Alright, so here's what we're gonna do

- Wait why do you have the final say? - Because I went to Waterloo

LOL

Alright, here's the plan. So as an MVP

we're just gonna make a purely consumption site

The reason why? Is because we want to validate if there's actually demand for our website

so that's why we're just gonna make a simple web app. What we'll do is that we'll pretend that

Invite only to be able to produce on our platform, but in reality we don't have a production side

but what we're really gonna do it is just that we're going to steal old Vine videos and post them on our website

That way the consumer side will think that we're producing videos using the mobile app which is invite only

For growth, we'll have a Facebook page, and we'll put only the best of the best vine videos there

And then we'll just boost the shit out of it with ad credits

Alright, so here's what we need. We need someone to build the whole web app, front and back-end

We don't have enough resource to separate them

That's why we need someone to own the whole full stack

- I'm on it - Alright

Who wants to write the crawler to get all the best vine videos

and then write pipelines to funnel them in website?

Got it

John can write the fake nine in page for a mobile website?

And also can you set up the CDN so it could surf videos faster?

And I'll manage the Facebook page and start growing it.

Alright, let's do it

Alright, what do you think of this?

- No, we can't launch that, it looks exactly like Vine.. - No, this is perfect

Alright guys, this is really good.

- Alright so next what we're gonna do- - Guys! I think you might wanna look at this

Oh shit

It's not good

What's poppin, so I hope you enjoyed this episode

I definitely had fun making it as I hope you guys had fun watching it

I just want to give a shout out to Matthew Cho he's my new cinematographer

he's amazing

so I want you guys to check out his stuff because um..

I don't know he's probably one of the best cinematographers

I've ever met, and yeah, he deserve a shout out

Second shout out. I want a shout out to The Sinful Engineer.

Thank you for giving me that clip about MVP. This guy's hilarious

Yes, you should check that out

I put his link on the description and also of course if you liked this video

And you haven't subscribed to my channel, subscribe now.

C'mon, what're you waiting for? And yeah

Thank you so much and see you on the next episode.

Peace!