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? – Founders at Work
• What CEO do you follow? –

• Favorite online tool? — Google Apps
• Do you get 8 hours of sleep?— No
• If you could let your 20 year old self know one thing, what would it be? – “Relax, you’re doing well. Have more fun”

Time Stamped Show Notes:

• 01:12 – Nathan introduces Ariel to the show
• 01:35 – TouristEye is Ariel’s first company and exited it in 2013
• 01:45 – TouristEye is a travel guide for mobile devices with all information offline
• • 02:03 – Revenue is from referral fees and premium features in application
  • 02:24 – Raised funding for TouristEye
  • 02:55 – Acquisition price of Lonely Planet
  • 03:18 – Why did you sell TouristEye?
• 04:50 – Ariel was 26 when he sold TouristEye
• 05:00 – Ariel joined Lonely Planet after selling TouristEye
• 06:00 – Ariel is starting a new project related to teaching
• • 06:30 – Building a new platform online
  • 06:46 – The project is called HackerPath
  • 07:04 – Still in the process of building the database
  • 07:18 – Goal is to make it open to everyone
  • 07:37 – Recruiters are charging companies a 20% fee
  • 07:53 – Currently pre-revenue
• 08:20 – No retainers for TouristEye
• 09:00 – “Do something you really love. Don’t waste time and just do it”
• 09:24 – Ariel and his friends talk about ideas and how to make to make it happen
• 10:00 – What salary would be giving up should you decide to quit completely?
• • 10:12 – A 6-digit salary
• 10:35 – “I can start a new business and pay developers to help me”
• 11:04 – Most of the money that were spent so far was for an experiment that was launched last week called Coderoulette
• • 11:25 – Did it to validate the interest
  • 11:33 – Did well on the launched
  • 11:45 – Used existing technologies
• 12:00 – Put in $ 10-15,000 for the project
• 12:19 – Connect with Ariel through Twitter
• 13:30 – The Famous Five

3 Key Points:

• Do something you really love. Don’t waste time and just do it.
• Selling a business is a crucial choice – make sure you won’t regret it.
• Relax and have more fun.

Resources Mentioned:

• Toptal – Nathan found his development team using Toptal  for his new business Send Later. He was able to keep 100% equity and didn’t have to hire a co-founder due to quality of Toptal  developers.
• Host Gator – The site Nathan uses to buy his domain names and hosting for cheapest price possible.
• Freshbooks – The site Nathan uses to manage his invoices and accounts.
• Leadpages  – The drag and drop tool Nathan uses to quickly create his webinar landing pages which convert at 35%+
• Audible – Nathan uses Audible when he’s driving from Austin to San Antonio (1.5 hour drive) to listen to audio books.
• Assistant.to – The site Nathan uses to book meetings with one email.
• @arielcamus  - Ariel’s Twitter handle
• Show Notes provided by Mallard Creatives