Dax Shepard noted that Edward Norton declined The Avengers franchise, waving goodbye to what Dax estimated at $40 million or more — potentially hundreds of millions across sequels.
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Dax's curiosity about Jim Rouse opens one of the episode's richest veins. Norton describes a grandfather who was orphaned as a teen, lived a Huck Finn existence on the Chesapeake Bay, hustled pool and played poker so well he never touched his Navy pay, and wore fishing lures in his hat to serious meetings without any trace of irony. Rouse became one of America's most influential urban thinkers — taught at Harvard, on the cover of Time magazine — and gave Frank Gehry one of his first commissions in 1967, a building still displayed in Gehry Architects' lobby today. [1] — Edward Norton "Edward Norton's grandfather Jim Rouse predicted in the 1950s that the interstate highway system would hollow out American cities — and spen…" 07:48 On Eisenhower's Housing Commission in the 1950s, Rouse predicted that the interstate highway system would drive suburban sprawl and hollow out American cities — a phrase he's credited with helping popularize. His solution: revitalize downtown marketplaces like Baltimore's Inner Harbor, Boston's Faneuil Hall, and New York's South Street Seaport. He gave almost all his money to the Enterprise Community Partners low-income housing organization.
Jim Rouse, Edward Norton's grandfather, gave Frank Gehry one of his first architectural commissions in 1967 — a building still displayed in Gehry Architects' lobby today.
Jim Rouse served on Eisenhower's Housing Commission in the 1950s and was among the first to predict that the interstate highway system would hollow out cities by driving suburban sprawl.
Bhanu grew SiteGPT to $13,000 monthly recurring revenue entirely through organic channels, spending nothing on paid marketing.
More than 1 million people have visited SiteGPT's website since launch in March 2023, all through organic channels.
Approximately 90% of SiteGPT's Google search traffic comes from the free tools Bhanu built, not the main product pages.
Bhanu sold his first SaaS product, Feather, for $250,000 so he could focus fully on the faster-growing SiteGPT.
SiteGPT has generated approximately $500,000 in total revenue since its launch in March 2023.
The average customer lifetime value for SiteGPT is approximately $1,700 to $1,800, which Bhanu considers unusually high.
SiteGPT receives around 50,000 visitors per month, of which about 200 convert to leads and 60 start free trials.
SiteGPT hit $10,000 MRR within its very first month of launch, driven largely by early traction in the AI chatbot space.
Despite strong download numbers, PropGPT could not push past $1,000–$2,000 MRR due to poor product retention.
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