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Diverse Tech Founders – Daryl Holman Jr.
Making a career in technology is not easy, it has its ups and downs. You just need to believe in yourself and put yourself out there and take new opportunities. This week on the Diverse Tech Founders podcast, we are blessed with the presence of Daryl Holman Jr; founder of Revival Inc, web & graphic designer, and social justice advocate. Throughout the episode, we dive into how Daryl figured himself out in the early stages of his life, Revival, evidence of traction, building a team, front-end development, pivots, product-market fit, and more.
[01.45] Figuring out yourself – Daryl shares his journey to technology through the years starting from Myspace.
[04.51] Revival – Daryl discusses what Revival is and how it works.
[07.32] Evidence of traction – Buying debt is not easy; Daryl shares what made him keep going with Revival.
[09.28] Unexpected value – Daryl talks about the biggest unexpected opportunity he had to understand further what he is doing.
[11.56] Building a team – Highly motivated, interested in solving problems, seeing things that others don’t, and taking advantage of that as a company to give that value to the customers as the things they are looking for when building a team, says Daryl.
[13.22] Front-end development – Daryl shares some advice for the people who are willing to get into front-end development.
[16.45] Profitable piece of advice – It isn’t the launching that is important but the way how you built it over time; is the best piece of advice according to Daryl.
[20.53] Product market fit – Daryl shares his attitude about when the product market fit will come.
[24.35] Pivots – Daryl shares that coming to New York was one of the biggest turning points in his life which presented him with the opportunity to change his field to technology.
[30.16] Running a billion-dollar company – Daryl talks about what he hopes to accomplish with Revival rather than just making a billion-dollar company.
[34.09] Most valuable thing – Help people navigate the financial decision to help them make in the future as the ultimate goal and the most valuable thing Revival does as a company, says Daryl.
Quotes
‘’If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late’’.
-Reid Hoffman-
‘’Launching is less important. The more important things is how you built over time. Improving things day by day, small step by small step, that’s way more important than having a sexy launch’’
-Daryl-
‘’When you first launch anything it typically sucks. You realize that you do not have the magic touch at all. But over time when you build, get things to work, people start to respond the things that you are building and it’s rewarding because you are putting something in the world that just wasn’t there before’’.
-Daryl-

Promo video
[10.43] When you first launch anything……. Wasn’t there before.
[32.48] Build something …….. next breakthrough.

Resources
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/darylholmanjr/
Website - https://www.revivalfunds.com/