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How I Went From Bitcoin Hustles to Business Partnerships

22 Apr 2025 · 1 min

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In this first-person narrative, the speaker recounts his journey from a college engineering student to an aspiring entrepreneur. Inspired by family members who owned small businesses, he sought the freedom and lifestyle such ventures could provide. He began solo, experimenting with Bitcoin and crypto‑based arbitrage: buying gift cards, converting them into iPhones, and reselling the phones for cash, once earning $10,000 in a single transaction. After about six months, he partnered with two friends—one as a primary collaborator and another in a peripheral role—to launch a prototyping service for external clients. The segment highlights the early entrepreneurial spark, the role of crypto‑enabled hustles, and the initial experience of forming a business partnership.

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All right. So I want to talk a little bit about finding the right partner. So I started when I was in college as an engineering student and basically wanted to get into business. I wanted to have my own business. It's something that I saw family members as a kid doing, owning their small business. Obviously, I saw them working a lot and the struggle that came with it, but then also the freedom that it did allow, you know, some of the lifestyle things that it allowed them to live. So starting out, I started by myself. I worked by myself for about, I would say, half a year. And I ended up— the first thing I did is I partnered with one of my friends, actually two of them, one of them more seriously. The other one was just kind of on the back burner. But basically, we were doing a prototyping business where we were going out and doing some prototyping for people. Now, I started out before this, we were playing around with Bitcoin, playing around with crypto. So that's kind of how I got started. That's like the entrepreneurial-ish spark was basically us using Bitcoin. We were going and buying gift cards, taking the gift card, buying iPhones, and then selling iPhones. And I remember one time we came back with like, we had like 10, 15 iPhones, and we went to our guy that we had met that we're selling in bulk to on Facebook, and we came back with like 10 grand in cash. It was ridiculous.