I cracked up when I read the following article, because it's just the sort of thing I like to tease you Type-A workaholic monkeys about. It's all about Jared Kleinstein, the 24-year old former ski instructor from Vail who founded Tebowing.com in October of last year. He was out drinking with some pals and he snapped a picture of them Tebowing outside the bar, created a web page of people's Tebowing pics, and is now rolling in dough three short months later.
I'm not suggesting that he hasn't worked hard or wasn't adept at recognizing a trend, but I think it's pretty safe to say he's never put in back-to-back 100-hour weeks. And there's a lesson there, monkeys. It's pretty easy to get IB tunnel vision when you're in school, or PE tunnel vision when you're on the job for the first couple years. But look around you: people are becoming overnight millionaires with pretty silly concepts. If that doesn't make you think twice about working hard, I don't know what will.
I love the Internet. The Internet is the lazy man's paradise. I'm not suggesting Kleinstein is lazy (though he could very well be - I don't know the guy), but I personally know people who pull in six figures a year for doing nothing more than being a middle man for web hosting companies and helping n00bs install free software. Hell, I know a guy who made over $100,000 in one 72-hour period last year just by convincing a bunch of online gurus to take a deep discount on their products all at one time.
The Internet is probably the only place in human history where a group of bros could get rich, well, bro-ing out. Kleinstein even admits he didn't know what to expect:
“I was just doing it for fun,” he says. The four other partners in the limited liability company are all either 24- or 25-year-old guys who are his friends from either growing up in Denver or from college.
So keep your noses to the grindstone, monkeys. Bury your heads and crank out those Excel spreadsheets. There's only two working days until Monday, so you'd better get cracking. Because someday Jared and his bros are gonna hire your firm to take them public.
Have a great weekend, fellas.
Cool article.
He's so rolling in dough that he hasn't yet quit his two jobs.
I wonder how many hours he puts in a week working those two jobs plus handling all the business of Tebowing (search engine optimization, accounting, and media monitoring of which is no fun)
Plenty of people are also becoming overnight millionaires with amazing financial start ups that actually contribute some value to this earth - with the knowledge and discipline gained on the street
Pretty sure finance has made just as many 'bros' rich as the internet has
What do you think this guy's net worth is, or revenue/profit? 20,000,000 page views on 2,000,000 unique visitors. Already investing his profits in cheap real estate. Good for him. Wish I could think of something as inanely unique.
Come on, now. Stuff like this is usually temporary. Will Tebowing be a popular trend 2-5 yrs from now? I doubt it. Will Tebowing.com secure Series A financing from Sequioa Captial and eventually go public? Hell no. Sooner or later, this guy will need a real career.
yeah, any stats on his pageviews or how they monetize? I see they have tebowing gear, so they probably had insane sales for a month or so, but don't think they would become milliionaires from this...
if you check out alexa you see an initial crazy spike and then a big drop off: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/tebowing.com#
i do think it's hilarious though
I read this article solely because of the chick in a yellow bikini.
You speak the truth my friend.
They guy will make some bucks, maybe even a couple hundred k and that's it. But it's pretty nice for the amount of work he put in if you ask me.
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