Build something real first, then sell it

[00:00] If you're learning right now, and you're [00:01] out there, it's like, build the new [00:03] thing. Build it to be valuable, see it [00:05] through to completion, and once you've [00:08] done that sort of like what we used to [00:09] call the software development life [00:11] cycle, like once you've done that for [00:13] yourself on your on something that you [00:15] really care about, and you've you've [00:17] felt that like the wind at your back, [00:19] now just [00:21] the next step is get in touch, find a [00:23] find a way, talk to somebody who's got a [00:25] business that needs software. And [00:27] congratulations, like that's that's [00:29] basically you've built a consulting [00:30] company that that can provide real [00:32] business value. And the reason you can, [00:34] you know, [00:35] lean on your own experience to know like [00:38] you have the capability to do it cuz you [00:40] did it for yourself. And I Now, when you [00:42] go up against the person who's got 10 [00:44] years, 15 years, 20 years of [00:45] professional software development [00:47] experience, maybe they worked at Google [00:49] or Meta or whatever, you know, you're [00:51] actually going to be able to outcompete [00:52] those people because you're going to be [00:53] able to actually serve somebody and [00:54] demonstrate as an individual how you're [00:56] going to generate ROI for their [00:57] business.