Jasper Rivers quit his job in 2010 to travel, started hosting on Airbnb in Amsterdam in 2012, and built a podcast with 330 episodes. He wrote Get Paid for Your Pad but Amazon rejected it as too generic, teaching him why specificity matters in products and content.
You know, I need to do something different with my life. I want to travel. I want to see the world. I want to just see what the world is like and get to know different cultures and be in different countries, different continents and everything. So I decided one day to tell my boss that I was going to quit. That also meant that I wasn't getting paid anymore.
We've got Jasper Rivers, who is all the way speaking to me from Barcelona in Spain. He's originally from Amsterdam. He was originally in the day trade.
My name is Jasper Rivers. Started on in 2012, Airbnb hosting back in Amsterdam. And back in the day, there was not a lot of information about Airbnb, so I kind of had to figure everything out by myself. And so I came up with the idea of writing a book about it, get paid for your pad. That turned into a podcast. Yeah, launched that 2014. So we're still six years in now with the podcast. 330 episodes. You know, when I started traveling back in 2010, we didn't have WhatsApp and you couldn't call each other for free and stuff like that. Technology wasn't as advanced, and so people were still communicating over email a lot with, you know, with like, as a way to keep in touch. Well, let me tell you the book first. So the book is called get paid for your pad, right? And it's on Amazon. The day I wanted to upload it to Amazon, Amazon, actually. They actually, like, a couple days later, they got back to me and they said that I couldn't sell it on Amazon because it was too generic. You know, I learned a really good lesson. And so I'm still thankful for actually them refusing my book because it taught me that if you want to write something or if you want to sell something, it always has to. It has to be. Sam.