How tinkering on the internet since I was 12 led me to millions

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Jon: What’s the backstory? How did you get into start-ups and technology?

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Raad: I’ve been tinkering on the internet for as long as I can remember.

When I was twelve or thirteen I was building websites for family and

friends. I was a heavy Aim user so I did a couple of sites there.

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Before Lawtrades, I launched one of the first apps on the Facebook app

store that basically let people customize their cover photos. To my surprise,

that went viral and grew to about thirty million hits a month and I built a

decent six-figure business through Bannerheads while I was in law school.

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Jon: Hacking together a project like that, did you know or understand how

to seek capital for that business?

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Raad:  There was no fundraising at all. It was all just hobbies. If it made a little

bit of money, that was cool. The Facebook cover site was, at its peak, doing

250, 300K a year just from people clicking Google Adsense so there was no

need to raise capital. I like that aspect of building companies.

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