72: Creating Visuals to Stand Out, Go viral and Make Money | Janis Ozolins

Billion Moonshots

"80% of the people who follow me are in for the ideas and not how beautiful they look"

Janis Ozolins is an Illustrator with over 38,000 followers on Twitter. His work have been seen by millions of people and led him to work for Naval Ravikant, Steven Bartlett, Matt D’Avella, Shaan Puri, Julian Shapiro and others.

We talk about life after school, selling his first product as a creator, and going full time into creating visuals on Twitter. He also shared advice for beginners such as what platform to pick, how to start, etc.

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GUEST LINKS

Twitter: https://twitter.com/OzolinsJanis

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ozolinsjanis/

Instagram: https://instagram.com/jaozolins

Website: https://bio.link/ozo

OUTLINE

(00:00) Life in School

(01:32) From selling bikes to becoming IT manager

(03:25) The Book that changed my life

(08:27) Living by society's default standards

(11:33) 3 people who inspired to go all-in into visuals

(15:52) Early days of growing on Twitter

(19:17) Kids help you cut all the BS in life

(22:20) 0 to 40K followers on Twitter

(26:53) 50% of the battle is to figure out what to do

(29:22) Design Inspirations from James Clear & Jack Butcher

(35:20) How to generate ideas

(39:43) A day in my life

(46:53) Mission might sound cringe, but you need it

(50:44) Landing gigs with Julian Shapiro & Shaan Puri

(56:14) Shaan Puri's Golden Framework for Creators

(01:01:52) Minimalism & Matt D'Avella

(01:06:58) My Support System

(01:12:40) Creator Economy & upcoming Artists

(01:18:02) Leveraged your Time

(01:22:39) What social media platform to focus on?

(01:25:38) Advice for Creators

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2: Shanaya Bagga (my lil sis)

Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.

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