How I went from concept to a billion dollar company, in 5 days

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> How I went from concept to a billion dollar company, in 5 days

Easily answered -- he didn't. There's no "billion-dollar company" in the author's reality, or in his article. It's a scam headline. Not only is there no "billion-dollar company", the author is flat broke:

"I don’t want to waste anyones time here, if you want to fund me, please tell me how you could help me."

He could have saved several thousand words by saying, "I have a billion-dollar idea -- you give me a billion dollars. How about it?"

First-order linkbait. A hyperbolic title (obviously) with no clear indication of the true piece's contents.

Someone post a TL;DR; on this one. I want to click it out of curiosity but I hate these titles.

From what I could tell this guy thinks his routing idea is better than what FedEx and UPS already do.

Rather, he thinks that it's time to bring a dead-simple routing algorithm to people who are not driving for fedex and ups. His point is that he is not ashamed of taking an old, simple solution and scaling it up, and he claims that he'd like to see others do it too.

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