Omar Zenhom made $250-300k yearly working 10-12 hours a week, but realized internet income is fragile. One Google penalty or API outage could wreck it. He's now focused on saving enough to feel secure for five to ten years, not just chasing the next win.
I don't care about money for what money buys. I care about money for the freedom it buys. I was always like, I want to make enough money, then I never have to work again. I built that and I had about 250, $300,000. I was working 10, 12 hours a week. The problem was, is it's the Internet and all of that is fleeting. Like, a lot of it relied on SEO and ads. I had three or four different products, and then a competitor would come swipe one, and then an API stopped working on another, and then Google smacked another one, and suddenly I was like, this won't last. Like, I had two years, three years of that, and I sat and watched it and like, I have freedom for now, but like, what about next year? What about tenure? None of these businesses, I thought, were 10 year businesses that I could sit. And so me, two young kids, a wife, a house, I was like, what is true safety, like, financial freedom? I do think I need to bank enough money that I can feel safe for at least five or ten years and hopefully the rest of my life.
