The Social Media Platform Big Tech Never Wanted Built | Jerry Lopez

What this episode is about

The discussion focuses on Jerry Lopez's inspiring journey from a challenging childhood in Chicago to becoming a successful entrepreneur and the second Puerto Rican-born individual to establish a billion-dollar company. It highlights his early struggles, the influence of his mother’s hard work, and his determination to overcome adversity, ultimately exploring themes of resilience and the impact of personal experiences on his professional achievements.

Key takeaways

• From 'pair of tennis shoes' to billionaire — the journey transforms, but never forgets that poverty persists.
• When you think navigating adversity is unique, remember: every success story is a silent street battle.
• Two jobs, night school, and the heart of a mother — sometimes, champions rise not from glory, but sacrifice.
• Crypto dreams were born from a history of struggle; innovation often finds its roots in the toughest soils.
• Everyone sees success; few understand the grind. The spotlight blurs the scars that fuel the fight.

Who speaks in this episode?

• Daniel (Host) · 10 min speaking
• Jerry Lopez (Guest) · 23 min speaking

What is discussed, and when

1. 0:00 – 5:00: Jerry Lopez, Faith Anomics
2. 10:00 – 15:00: Philcoin
3. 15:00 – 20:00: Phil Social, Philcoin
4. 20:00 – 25:00: Phil Social, Philcoin, Faith Anomics
5. 25:00 – 30:00: Phil Social, Faith Anomics
6. 30:00 – 32:12: Phil Social, Faith Anomics

Notable quotes from "The Social Media Platform Big Tech Never Wanted Built | Jerry Lopez"

• So Jerry Lopez, man, I'm super excited to have you for a variety of reasons.

  about Jerry Lopez · at 1:02

• Giant light bulb lit up for me. Here is 2016 going into 2017. And that's when Philcoin, the philanthropy coin, was born because of a desire that I had to change the way people…

  about Philcoin · at 14:17

• Phil social. And then I started going to town on that. That was 2021. Here we are 2025. We launched Phil social in January 25 of 2025. And we've organically been building it and perfectionalized how people give because there's a catch.

  about Phil Social · at 18:12

• Is faith in believing in something is a catalyst to be able to have financial freedom. And faith economics is a bridgeport of that. And we hit the top 10 US bestseller, number…

  about Faith Anomics · at 25:33

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

• Jerry Lopez — Person · Main guest · 1 mention · first at 1:02
  Primary interview subject sharing his upbringing, mindset framework, and origin story of his crypto/philanthropy ventures and book.

Books & papers

• Faith Anomics — Book · Primary recommendation · 4 mentions · first at 2:34
  A book that bridges the gap between faith and economy, detailing Jerry Lopez's journey and belief system.

Products & tech

• Phil Social — Product · Business focus · 6 mentions · first at 18:12
  A social media platform that rewards users with cryptocurrency for their time and encourages peer-to-peer giving.
• Philcoin — Product · Business focus · 3 mentions · first at 14:24
  A cryptocurrency designed to facilitate philanthropy and peer-to-peer giving within the Phil Social platform.

Full transcript with timestamps

0:00 So, we were literally being raised by the streets of Chicago. You are the second Puerto Ricanborn native that has built a billiondoll company.

0:10 It's kind of interesting where you you feel like you came from nothing, but sometimes you question yourself, was that everything that I needed? Cuz I went from being a 13-year-old boy to having the mindset of never being poor again. When I saw that despair in my mother's eyes, asking us to forgive her cuz she could she was doing the best that she could. And that day was when my life changed because it turns out Daniel that she was working two jobs plus going to night school just to try to provide for us. And we grew up without my father. I didn't meet him until I was 21. And when we talk about the young boy from born in Awad to Bayon with a pair of tennis shoes at the age of eight, I always tell people everyone can see the glory but no one knows the journey.

1:02 So Jerry Lopez, man, I'm super excited to have you for a variety of reasons. one, you are just really a great person to have a conversation with and and I know we're going to go back in time to crypto, which I always love to talk about the impact you're having, your missions, the new book that came out, but something that stood out among all of these things was that you are the second Puerto Ricanborn native that has built a billiondoll company. But you didn't start with a billion-dollar company when you were born. you created this and you made it and I want to really I want the audience to really hear about your story. So, let's go back, Jerry, to the time when you didn't even know what crypto was.

1:50 You didn't even know about any of this stuff about building a company, entrepreneurship, but when you were a kid, how was that when you were growing up?

1:58 Well, first of all, Daniel, thank you so much for having me here in your podcast. It's an honor to be with you and always grateful. Congratulations, Father. Great work you're doing. You're doing amazing things. Your podcast is amazing. So, thank you. You know, um Daniel, uh you know, just from a 30,000 foot view, right? You know, single mom. You know, I have two other other brothers from my mom's side. Um you know, born in Auadia, Puerto Rico, raised in Bayamon, Puerto Rico till I was eight. you know, you can literally say the the house is actually in the book uh that I think we'll talk about in a little while, Faith Anomics.

2:36 Um it's 530 foot home, you know, that's where we we grew up in. Um I had my first pair of tennis shoes when I was 8 years old. And the reason why I got him, Daniel, was because my mother was actually moving from Puerto Rico um to the mainland uh where we where I grew up as uh a young man, which was Chicago, Illinois. And it was interesting because, you know, as a child, you don't know the difference between, you know, wealth, riches, or poverty. You're just a kid, right? So, you know, given that there's still not a light post for a mile from where I come from, even still today in 2025, it's kind of interesting where you know, you you you you know that you you feel like you came from nothing, but sometimes you question yourself, was that everything that I needed? And and you know, going into a big city, from a mountain boy to a big city, it was a blessing for me because uh for two reasons. uh I realized that

3:36 there was new opportunity but um at that point Daniel um we didn't move from poverty we just uh transferred it to another country or another state per se and long story short you know 13 years old hit and I think this part is important um my 15year-old brother I was 13 I'm six years older than my my six and a half years older than my younger brother my 15-year-old brother shows up and he shows up with a girl that we've never seen before. She's 6 months pregnant. She's 15 years old and I'm like, "Oh my gosh, my my mother's going to kill this guy." You know, she had just gotten kicked out of her house, you know, for for not being able to hide it anymore. And here it is. My mother shows up, you know, close to 11 p.m. and and behold, you know, my mother just breaks down crying and asking us to forgive her because it turns out, Daniel, that that she was working two jobs plus going to night school just to try to provide for

4:38 us. And we grew up without my father. I didn't meet him till I was 21. I'm 47 years old. Seen him a handful of times in my life. So, we were literally being raised by the streets of Chicago. So with that said, here it is the scenario where I can say was the game changer for me because I went from being a 13-year-old boy to having the mindset of never being poor again when I saw the despair in my mother's eyes asking us to forgive her because she could she was doing the best that she could. And that day was when my life changed. And when we talk about the young boy from born in Auad to Bayon with a sp pair of tennis shoes at the age of eight, I always tell people everyone can see the glory, but no one knows the journey.

5:28 Man, I it's why we started Founder Story. We always see the end result, but rarely do we see the story of how it got there, which I think is to me it's the most inspiring piece for most people is they think, "Oh, look at this successful guy, Jerry." but don't realize that, you know, the the road to get there was not overnight, nor was it super easy. So, let's fast forward u to when you fell in love with crypto, blockchain technology, and where you saw like, okay, like I want to do something that's going to change the world.

6:04 So, it turns out I'm 16 years old. Funny story, you know, I I I said, you know what, I have to do I have to be creative. I know that the only way that I am going to come out of poverty, the first thing that I have to do is change my mindset because I I I realized that my environment wasn't aligning with with my desire and my passion to be different. So 15 years old, I'm almost 16. I was fascinated by VCRs, Daniel, and I turned a VCR mortar into a tattoo machine. That was my first invention when I was about to be 16 years old. I turned a tattoo machine into a VCR a VCR motor into a tattoo machine and I started selling them for 50 60 bucks and you know by the time I was 19 years old um it turns out that I used to walk almost four miles to go to school. I used to live in the west side of Chicago and I used to walk and I I was fascinated by construction and every time I would go by a construction site I

7:10 would offer myself to work just to learn. So I learned how to do electrical, plumbing, roofing and like I mean I learned everything about construction between the age of 15 and a half to 19. Fast forward, I am 19 years old. From tattoo machines to now even learning how to read blueprints, I have saved up 5,200 bucks to go and apply for my general contractor's license. And I used to say to myself, you know what? One day I'm going to be like the guy with the orange hats and the white pickup trucks and I'm going to get me one of those licenses. I went and before I turned 20 years old, I got my general contractor's license. Fast forward, here I am. I'm 25, finished school, got my masters by then, and I had became a self-made millionaire by the age of 25 and completely changed in in a little bit over uh uh 10 years the the history of my family legacy by simply believing that I could.

8:07 So, when what do you tell people then that say, "Jerry, I'm just not like you. like I don't have the same mindset as you and I I I just can't envision myself in a different place. I think we're in a we're in a fascinating time right now where there's definitely wealth disparity, wealth gaps widening, but there's, you know, millionaires being billionaires being born every day, but there's also people with the least every day. It's a fascinating uh uh paradigm we are in globally, right? At the same time, anyone from anywhere around the world, if they have the access to the internet, can make money. So, it's also like fascinating. But I think like what I'm hearing from you is it's not necessarily the tools that you have that changes you. It it really is your mindset. So, how can people shift that mindset?

9:01 Because when they're in that rut, it's so hard to feel like you can get out. Yeah, that's a very good question, Daniel. You know, to start off, mindset is a selfbuilder. A lot of people don't understand that your self-esteem and how you see yourself is half the battle. I always tell everyone the mirror is your best friend. When you're sad, it reflects your sadness. When you're happy reflects your happiness. When you're angry, it reflects your anger. At the end of it all, you are a reflection of your attitude. So you got to start believing that you are able to make progress every day because you can't really change your mindset until you make a decision to make progress because whether it takes you a year or whether it takes you 12 years like it took me 13 years you know to see my first million in a bank account from the moment that I saw my brother going through that in his life which by the way four years after

10:04 that my first nephew died in the sleep. So just imagine everything that our family has gone through. So all the challenges that we went through could have easily broken me. But I understood Daniel that if I made progress every day believing that I can even though I didn't want to do it and I take a step forward that was already half of the battle won. And then once you start to see the progress bearing fruit, then you start seeing, okay, I can do this. And progress is a very big and important tool for your mindset to be broken.

10:45 I love that. Progress every day. It's almost like baby steps. Like you don't have to run the marathon tomorrow. You can slowly get there and change yourself. And I mean, if somebody says change yourself overnight, that seems challenging. But you're talking about, you know, over a decade of really changing yourself, realizations. Um, let's go to Bitcoin. You told me that when you when you first purchased a Bitcoin, it was $283. How many bitcoins?

11:18 Well, I have an interesting story with that, but go ahead. Okay. I was going to say, how many bitcoins do you have, but I'm only kidding. No. So, tell me. Yeah. Tell me about that. Tell me about how you even got introduced to crypto. And I imagine going back to 20145, most people thought it was, you know, a scam or something that was just going to fade into history.

11:38 Well, interesting enough, Daniel, I get a this random phone call from a friend of mine named Antonio, and he says, "Hey, Jerry, man, you got to learn this thing about Bitcoin. Mind you, it's end of 2014 into 2015. You know, my businesses are flourishing. you know, um my my son Adrian was born and you know, I had my other son uh already on its way and and my other two daughters were born, but I'm like, man, I don't want to hear about that. Those are Ponzi schemes. Those are bubbles. I don't want to hear about it. And ironic enough, he lived in Miami. He just showed up in my house the next day. Mind you, you know, what are you going to do at that point?

12:15 You, you know, one of your closest friends just shows up in your house adamant about you getting involved in Bitcoin. At that time I had to listen. So he patiently for an entire day. He went and got me a Bit Pay wallet, downloaded the $9.99 card, the Visa card, ordered one for me, downloaded the wallet for me, and he gifted me my first Bitcoin. It was $283 on that day. And I said, "Thank you, man. I I love you. I appreciate it." 45 days later, Daniel, he he calls me back. He says, "Hey, Jerry, have you checked out that wallet that I created for you?" And I said, "Brother, if I if I did, I'll be lying to you." Long story short, that 283 turned over 900 bucks. And I'm like, "What are you doing putting these coins in here?" He's like, "No, look at the bottom. Does it still say one BTC?" And I said, "Yes." Well, yeah. Still one.

13:10 It's still the same one. I said, "This not possible that this thing was 283 bucks. It's almost,000 bucks today." Anyhow, long story short, that took about three hours. He showed me how to go back. I had the Bit Pay card in the mail. I I, you know, I activated it and went and pull a couple hundred bucks out of an ATM machine and I said, "This thing is going to change humanity. I'm all in." And that's when my, you know, blockchain, you know, innovation started. And given that I've always been this innovative person of trying to, you know, be as far away from poverty as possible, I started trying to find a way that I can tie Bitcoin into its genesis because I went back all the way to the tulip trust and realized, Daniel, that Bitcoin and its inception, it was given away to create transactions. People will be gaining Bitcoin and they will be receiving free Bitcoin for gaming. And I said, "What if I can change the way

14:08 people give on the blockchain through this blockchain thing and through this Bitcoin thing?" And that's how a big giant light bulb lit up for me. Here is 2016 going into 2017. And that's when Philcoin, the philanthropy coin, was born because of a desire that I had to change the way people give because of my Christian background of giving in church and and ministry background. I said, I'm going to change the way people give. And that's how I got involved in crypto.

14:39 You know, the funny thing is I remember it was like I think it was 2016. We were on a ski trip with a bunch of friends and we used to go every year and one of the we were doing like fireside chats like everyone would present about something they knew and one of the guys was like I'm going to tell you about Bitcoin and blockchain and he's he goes on and on like you're saying like hours go by and all of us are like dude I'm more confused now than I was before. If he only just said just buy it, it would have been a better conversation instead of explaining to me how it works. Then I'm like, I don't understand it. Then I left it like I don't get it. If he had told me just, dude, like you said, it's three, it's $1,000 right now. It might be $5,000 tomorrow. Just buy it. I would have bought it, but he overco complicated the whole thing. So I blame him for the reason why I don't have a lot of Bitcoin. But okay. So I love I

15:36 love this. I love that you're sticking to your mission. Like the fact that you you found a problem, solved it, but it's related to your mission and your purpose in life. I think you know that's incredible. I think a lot of people would get into entrepreneurship or see entrepreneurship even more if that was the direction that they were looking at. So you were way early on. I imagine a lot of people were skeptical. Did you gain traction right away? Did it take a few years? like what what was the next point when you really saw scalability?

16:09 Well, thank you for asking that question and and and again in faith economics, you know, it's the the story of my life. You know, I encourage people to go look at it. It's a phenomenal thing. But it wasn't until 2019 that I realized that I was one in a bunch. I said, "Oh my gosh, like if I would have known because the idea was to create the first philanthropy ecosystem on the blockchain, you know, just like Ethereum became the, you know, the altcoin fork for Bitcoin and so on." I said, "We got to do something different. There has to be a crypto for good movement. There has to be, we have to go back to the genesis of Bitcoin because Bitcoin was given away and its inception. I said, I have to tie giving into this somehow." So when we built Phil coin, the actual cryptocurrency or the crypto token, utility token, and I saw that it was just one in a bunch, I said, there's something missing here. There's a

17:04 component that's incomplete because if not, I'm just one in a bunch. And then I had this big giant light bulb moment. I said, wait a minute. You know, look at how much amazing things Mark Zuckenberg has done with a social media platform. And then I just went back to the history of his life to his dorm days in Harvard and all the inventions that he's done because he did it all, you know, from, you know, from music players and everything. And he did something extraordinary. He created a communication system in between schools and then he just took fire and went viral and now became Facebook and Meta.

17:39 And I said, man, you know what? What if I can create an ecosystem and call it philanthropy social where I can bridge the gap between web two to web three and reward everyone for their time on social media with crypto. Go ahead and trademark and patent that idea and change the way people give. And now you don't need to be an influencer or a content creator. So you can go now ahead and monetize for just being social on Phil social. And then I started going to town on that. That was 2021. Here we are 2025. We launched Phil social in January 25 of 2025. And we've organically been building it and perfectionalized how people give because there's a catch.

18:28 Daniel, you see, I found out three things that social media has that a lot of people didn't realize. Number one is almost a $300 billion a year industry and only 78% goes to content creators and influencers. Number two, zero goes to the average user. the person with a 100, 500, a thousand followers that are sp that are spending two to three hours a day on social media, they're earning nothing for their time. And the third thing that I realized, it's that it's been a few a handful of companies that have had full control of the space and have bought out all the other emerging companies. And I said, "That's it. I'm gonna make the social media platform and I'm gonna give it all away to the people through the blockchain. I'm gonna grab Philcoin, put it inside there, make it the utility token, and then I'm going to reward everyone for being in it with Philcoin. And that's how Phil Social was born.

19:32 It sounds amazing. It sounds amazing. And I would imagine that timing plays a lot in your life and just business in general. Like you said in what I noticed from 2020 to like 2022, anyone who really got onto social media got a significant especially 2020 to 2021 they got a significant amount of traction because we were so heavy on social media at the time in those times. Do you find that in your life when you're doing these businesses that a lot of the success comes about by the fact of the timing was perfect? Like you're saying, you launched this in 2021, which is probably like the most people in the world, people around the world probably spend the most time on a social media platform. I remember Clubhouse like we were like 18 hours a day on Clubhouse um from like 2020 to like 2020 end of 2021 like if but that would have never worked in any other time in history. It was just like the timing was perfect. But

20:35 how is timing played in not just Phil social but in your life when it comes to business?

20:40 Well, timing I always tell people if you have timing on your side and you have the right team on your side, you've won half the battle. The rest of the battle is just your mindset. Uh I think that you know a lot of people thought this was going to fail for three reasons. Number one, no one has done it before. Crypto for good movement. They said no, nobody cares about giving back because there's a catch inside of social because if the social media app at the end of the month tells you, "Hey Daniel, congratulations. You just made a hundred bucks worth of Philcoin in the app." But guess what? You don't have access to it until you give half of it away to the causes because the whole point of Philocial is to do peer-to-peer giving.

21:24 It's a philanthropy social media platform. So, just think of GoFundMe on steroids but with social media infused in it and you're giving away crypto. That's what we did. So, everyone thought I was crazy. We've weathered three bare three bare markets and you know and and and everyone has told me well how how not only that I even weathered a rugpool that they did on me and I had a guy that stole almost $10 million from me and so we've weathered all these storms and people tell me how you have how have you succeeded and I said well very simple the same reason why I told you in the beginning of this of this podcast that your mindset is half of your battle whether you're going to win or succeed we know making a difference is a $1.2 trillion a year industry which is the philanthropy space and it's never before done peerto-peer. So it's only going to be a matter of time where the turtle wins the race. We're just ahead of very

22:20 ahead of the curve now with patent with trademarks and we're doing it and we're already doing it. You know it's not like this is not live. It's not theory. You can go and download full social right now on the app store and the Google Play Store and start earning the moment you join. The moment is now. It wasn't then. Was social media great then? Was social media great then, Daniel? Yes. But right now, guess what? It's it's going to explode. It's an anticipation over 90% of the world will be using social media by 2030.

22:55 So, what is our point here? We're just a different type of being social. That's all we are. We're just doing it different.

23:01 Man, I love that. Um, it's it's important to take things, make them your own, tweak them, but make them better. And I like how you really took something like a proven model. Like you said, social media was a proven model, crypto was a proven model, but you took it and you not only combined them, but you made it something that was uplevelled. Um, I don't know any social media gives back to the user. like you said, the user generates all the revenue in in giving their time, which then creates ad revenue, but the platform doesn't really give back to them. So, which I find it's pretty in the when you really think about it, it's kind of like a broken system. So, glad that you're trying to solve this. Let's go to faith anonyomics. It it doesn't sound like just a book. It sounds more like a movement to me.

23:54 What is this truth around faith and money and what did you uncover while you were writing this book?

24:02 Well, this book took me and and a lot of people say this is crazy. It took me 15 years to write and I strategically did not launch the book Daniel till Phil social was live until our valuation was certified because I wanted to prove that it was possible. You see the purpose of faith anomics be it tells my testimony it tells my journey and my belief system because I'm not a a religious Christian I am a believer I believe that faith is important I I I believe that God has a purpose for humanity and faith is bridging the gap between what your faith is and what the economy of the world is and the infrastructure of economy and how if you're able to understand the middle point between the two you will tap in to resources that you would never have thought that existed because without faith it is impossible to do anything whether you believe or not whether you're atheist whether you're Christian whether you're

25:17 Muslim whether you're Jewish whether whether you believe in any religion you have to believe in something in order to believe that something is possible possible or capable. You know, it's even harder to believe when you're atheist because you got to believe that nothing else exists. So, the truth of the matter is faith in believing in something is a catalyst to be able to have financial freedom. And faith economics is a bridgeport of that. And we we hit the top 10 US bestseller, number two in indie readers around the world. We became number two LA Times bestseller.

25:54 And and I don't say that to be boastful. It's just saying that we took time to build it. 15 years. So it's a blueprint.

26:02 Man, if you could do anything for 15 years, that's impressive. Like most people give up after six months. And I'm I'm coming out with a book next month. And it took me about two and a half years. So I can relate to it. It's a it's a heavy thing for people to do. Um, something I I've noticed listening to you today is you have this ironclad belief system and I'm curious around this motivation for each time you do something beyond like you said in the beginning around you know no you know you don't want to be poor so obviously you know money helps you not not be poor but for me for example when somebody tells me I can't do something I get this crazy fire like when people don't believe in me it's probably one of my biggest motivators which is maybe not healthy I don't know but for you what is something like every time you see something what is that spark in you that that motivates you where like I'm not

27:04 going to just do something 50%. I'm going to do this 10,000%. I'm gonna create a billion-dollar company. I'm gonna overcome this challenge. I'm gonna write this book after 15 years. Like, just listening to you, I'm fired up. But what is it deep down inside that like sparks that faith activates vision before provision? That's what it is, bro. Your faith activates your vision before it does your provision. You know, one of the things Daniel, and I talk about this in faith economics, it's actually chapter four of the book. It's called faith is a currency. If if people really understood that your real value is in how much you believe you can, I mean, you you can go through the brick wall. Like, it's it's it's it's a a different type of understanding.

28:04 when you believe that you can. People fail there, it's it's it's in it's in a mindset. It's it's in that one thing of belief. And I always tell people, I don't wait for checks to clear in the bank. I wait on how much I believe that I can accomplish it before the check needs to clear. So I don't depend on capital. I depend on activation. I depend on my ability to execute what I believe that I can because if I can, I can. So, at the end of the day, your faith is your provision. At the end of the day, it's it's what it is. It's your faith. You got to believe and and and it's and it's sold millions. So, don't stop believing. And hey, best part about it, Daniel, is it doesn't matter what religion you are. We all have something in common. And you know what that is? We want what's better for the people that we love. And we all love. So, guess what? And if we want what's better for somebody else, it takes effort.

29:19 to do something good for someone else. You know what they call that? That calls activation of provision. You want to provide something better for someone else. And that's going to require faith. You need to believe that you're able to provide that. It's just how God operates.

29:37 Well, I believe so much more now than when we first started our conversation. So, I hope others also feel the same way. I hope it draws some fire. Crypto for good, Phil social, faith anomics. Jerry, if people want to get the book, they want to join the community, they want to find out about the app because they want to earn by giving their time on social media. How can they do so?

29:59 Well, my biggest encouragement is, you know, Phil uh Philocial, you can go download it at the Google Play Store, Google App Store, Philanthropy Social, Phil Social, you can download it, start using it, enjoy it. It's decentralized, guys. It, you know, you got to have your 12 words. If you know crypto, you understand decentralization is important. So you have full control of your stuff there. We don't touch anything. As a matter of fact, we want to give to you. Want to be the first ones to give back. Second thing, faith economics. If you want to know how to go from having your first pair of tennis shoes when you were a kid at 8 years old or or whatever and learn to have your first million bucks, Faith Anonymous will be it'll be a good book for you to read. And regardless of your faith and and regardless of your religion, because I always say, you're a reflection of the five people you spend the most time

30:53 with. So if I'm giving you good advice and my Eden, my fruit can show that I am a pretty wealthy guy and I can give you good advice, well, you're going to follow it. But I always tell people these three principles, Daniel. Number one, documentation beats conversation. Number two, numbers don't lie. People do. And number three, if you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room. So I think in this room, you and I have a lot to give to the world. So if you're over there listening to what we're doing today, I think we can bring a little bit of value to you.

31:24 And those are the value pointers that I can give you. Go download Philocial. Go buy the book Faith Anomics because this is the new blueprint on how web 2, web 3 came together, crypto, social media, and we're changing the way people give. Well, Jerry, I'm not the smartest person in the room today and I learned a lot from you. So, I appreciate it. Super pumped up, fired up, love what you're doing with all all the all the impact and mission because I am all about that in my life now as well. So, thank you for joining us on Founders Story.

31:57 Hey, it's my pleasure, Daniel. Thank you so much for having me. And my encouragement is go get it, man. Mindset is half the battle. Your faith will take you across the way.

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The discussion focuses on Jerry Lopez's inspiring journey from a challenging childhood in Chicago to becoming a successful entrepreneur and the second Puerto Rican-born individual to establish a billion-dollar company. It highlights his early struggles, the influence of his mother’s hard work, and his determination to overcome adversity, ultimately exploring themes of resilience and the impact…

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The episode runs 32 min; the transcript is about 5,625 words in 46 timestamped sections.

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