how I built a 7 fig business before the age of 25

how I built a 7 fig business before the age of 25. Hi, I'm Brianna Wilburn. I'm 23 and I spent the past two and a half years building out my startup called AnswersAI. We pull in over seven figures and we were already doing these numbers when I was still 22. Most people build a product and then see who actually cares. We did the opposite. We figured out who cared and then built a product to cater to them. Obviously the first part of any company is solving a problem. The time that me and my co founder started our startup, Chat GPT got released and as students obviously we used it a bunch. I was an econ major and a student that loved using AI to help me out, but it was really annoying to always have to switch tabs. A lot of my questions pertained to graphs and I couldn't upload my graphs to Chat GPT because at the time it couldn't process images. Boom, how do we solve it? We created a Chrome extension where you could just screenshot your question and then get an answer directly in your assignment. Not only could you screenshot the graph along with the question so it could process images, but also the answer and explanation would be directly on your assignment like in a little bubble, so you would not have to switch between tabs and keep copying and pasting the question. You could just take a picture of it. I marketed the out of it. My output was at least three or four videos per day, high quality, trying to sell people on this product. Before we actually built the product, I did the marketing. We weren't gonna pay people to build our stuff if we didn't know that there was proof of demand. So then we honestly went ham on one launch video and it ended up getting 20 million views and literally I think there was over 1,000 people signed up on the waitlist. And then obviously over the course of the next week when we obtained 20 million views, it only went up and we were like, okay, we need to take this legit. We wanted to keep iterating to make it better and better, not to mention at least stable, getting our MVP out there. And then in order for us to grow this, all came down to digital marketing, which was my background. After about six months, we were in a hundred thousands of dollars of revenue, honestly insane. All of this meanwhile, I was a student so I actually took off every other quarter of school in order to keep working on this more intensely. And then the quarters that I did do, didn't spend that much time on. Optimising your systems is really how you get from that hundred thousand to $1 million in revenue. Literally just having more people on it and more hands on it, more ideas, more contribution, whatever is how we 10x efficiency became the name of the game, like how can we do this, how can we be fast, how can we get this out there, what's pulling in the best numbers, what's not, let's get rid of that and so forth. In a recap, problem, solution, proof of demand, product development, marketing, still product development, still marketing, optimising systems. One piece of advice that I would give other people trying to achieve a seven figure business is remembering that starting is the hardest part. It doesn't mean just starting the company, but actually starting new strategies, starting new systems. All of that is so overwhelming because you don't know the right answer. And I would just say instead of trying to figure out the perfect solution ahead of time, it's more important that you just attempt, fail, iterate and keep on that process. I'm currently in the process of building my second company and I'm gonna be doing all this on a much faster timeline, so follow along if you wanna see the journey.