I was the CEO of Tom Media, which is a media business that would aggregate all of the music sites under one umbrella. We were like this. We were the second largest music property in the country, third largest in the world. Um, there's QQ in China, which is like massive. So, so we were actually number two, if you don't count China in theWorld. And then I launched mobile fuse at the same time as Tom Media. All three companies were headquartered in Manhattan, New York.
Val Katayev is a tech and finance entrepreneur. In his high school yearbook, he decided he wanted to make $1,000,000 by the age of 30. He hit it by 19. In this interview, we spoke about some of his businesses, crypto, the looming recession, the power of a personal brand, and much more.