Did you know that Apple started as a side hustle?

Here's a thread of 3 multimillion dollar companies that started as side hustles…

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1. Apple

Steve Jobs was working the nightshift in Atari while Steve Wozniak was working as an engineer at HP.

In their spare time, the buddies would work on building computers in a car garage. This later gave birth to what we call Apple I.
2. Instagram

In 2009, Kevin Systrom was working as product manager at NextStop but during the nights and weekends, he'd work on his lil project. 

That project gave us Instagram.
3. Twitter

Jack Dorsey was working as a programmer in Odeo. In one of the Hackathon series, he came up with twitter—which he worked on as a side project for the next 1 year and finally launched on July 2006

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See...

All these companies are a good testament that side hustles
Can turn out to become extremely profitable main hustles—if properly tended to.

And maybe you have no interest in building a multimillion dollar side hustle, you just want something that'll add some couple of hundred thousands in your pocket...

If that's right, then you might
want to join my mailing list.

I'll be sharing a few of them plus some marketing tips as well in my list, starting from this week.

Here's the opt-in link: cutt.ly/XnUOdLB

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