At 25, Adam Novak is building The Fluency Project — a differentiated language-learning platform based in Seoul, South Korea. Through bold, founder-led marketing stunts, Adam has earned over 60 million views across platforms, using creativity and street performance to reimagine how we approach language learning. Before The Fluency Project, Adam was the founding design engineer at 222, a Y Combinator–backed social-connection startup in New York, co-founded Good Home, a wellness-focused home-ins...
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At 25, Adam Novak is building The Fluency Project — a differentiated language-learning platform based in Seoul, South Korea. Through bold, founder-led marketing stunts, Adam has earned over 60 million views across platforms, using creativity and street performance to reimagine how we approach language learning. Before The Fluency Project, Adam was the founding design engineer at 222, a Y Combinator–backed social-connection startup in New York, co-founded Good Home, a wellness-focused home-ins...
#1: Tejes Srivalsan - 21-year-old CEO turning parties into profits, memes into job offers, & delusions into dollars
Young, Smart, & Battling Broke
1 hour 44 minutes
10 months ago
#1: Tejes Srivalsan - 21-year-old CEO turning parties into profits, memes into job offers, & delusions into dollars
Welcome to the very first episode of Young, Smart, and Battling Broke! I’m your host, Cole Hume—young, beginning to be a little less broke, and as for smart...well, the jury’s still out on that one. But I hope to have a loving impact, with financial savviness and mindfulness as my guiding cornerstones. For this inaugural episode, I sit down with Tejes Srivalsan, the dynamic CEO and Founder of Poppin, a social networking app that connects users to local parties, which has already raised $2.4M ...
Young, Smart, & Battling Broke
At 25, Adam Novak is building The Fluency Project — a differentiated language-learning platform based in Seoul, South Korea. Through bold, founder-led marketing stunts, Adam has earned over 60 million views across platforms, using creativity and street performance to reimagine how we approach language learning. Before The Fluency Project, Adam was the founding design engineer at 222, a Y Combinator–backed social-connection startup in New York, co-founded Good Home, a wellness-focused home-ins...
