Starts September 4th. 15 weeks. 105 days. The contestants must complete their tasks before December 18th, 11:59 PM or they must complete their respective punishments.

Jeson’s Task

• Publish at least 50 30 podcast episodes that abide by the following criteria,
  • 20 min length each,
  • You cannot have the same person on the interview twice, and
  • The interviewer needs to be either a founder, an operator or an investor.
    • Shardul will vet if this qualifies.
• Launch the Renown Fellowship, where you create a talent accelerator to solve the world’s most pressing problems.
  • Bring on 5 mentors who are either professors or founders and who can commit 2 hours a week to the fellowship [DETAILS SUBJECT TO CHANGE]
  • Cohort Start Date of some time in January
  • Programming, schedule, perks for attendees and fellows

Shardul’s Task

• Publish on product hunt every 2 weeks until you find a product that you want to build longer term.
  • Each product you publish on product hunt needs to have a working demo
    • Jeson will vet if the product and demo qualifies.
  • Each product needs to solve a problem that someone will find useful and valuable.
  • If you find a product you want to build longer term, and you commit the rest of the time of the challenge to this product, you need to make at least $1000 before the end of the term.

Incentives and Punishments

Jeson’s Positive Incentive

• For any revenue generated by Shardul’s product on ProductHunt, Jeson gets 10% cut up to $500 (every 2 weeks).

Shardul’s Positive Incentive

• For every working product on Product Hunt, I can ask Jeson to promote the product on his podcast.

Jeson and Shardul’s Punishment

If the participant doesn’t complete their task by the aforementioned end date, he must post at least a 1 minute video on LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram with the below criteria

• Singing STFU by pink guy dressed in the pink guy suit
• 1 mile walk minimum from any location in San Francisco.

Progress Tracking Using Daily Stand Up

10 AM standup every day. Jeson gets to validate Shardul’s idea for the product on product hunt and Shardul gets to vet Jeson’s leads for his podcast to see if they are good enough to qualify. Every stand up is tracked in the calendar below.

Daily Stand Update