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Kevin E.

Kevin E.

@KevEdelson

Building @altsocietyai | Managed tens of millions in ad spend | Worked w/ VC-backed start-ups, Fortune 500s, and everything in between

South Florida Bergabung Mayıs 2023
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Kevin E.@KevEdelson·
@motilola @aschwags3 Yes been hearing various complaints. A lot of the ones I’ve seen are people who connected Claude
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adriane schwager
adriane schwager@aschwags3·
This is going to be every marketer's second employee (and you'll never have to hire them). Here's the workflow you’re handing your marketing team team today: 1/ Connect your data sources (Google Ads, Meta, GA4, etc.) 2/ Agent pulls performance data while you sleep 3/ Writes a plain-English summary: what's working, what's draining budget, what to watch 4/ Flags anomalies and winners automatically (CPL spike, organic drop, a post taking off) 5/ Delivers the report to Slack before your first standup The agent runs overnight. Your team walks in with the brief already written. The teams building this now are the ones still standing in two years
Claude@claudeai

Introducing Claude Managed Agents: everything you need to build and deploy agents at scale. It pairs an agent harness tuned for performance with production infrastructure, so you can go from prototype to launch in days. Now in public beta on the Claude Platform.

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Being an ‘AI enabled agency’ or service provider will only be a competitive advantage for the next couple years before it becomes the default.
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Codie Sanchez
Codie Sanchez@Codie_Sanchez·
We're going to witness the biggest small business boom in history. One person with a laptop, an audience of 500 weirdos who care about the same niche thing, and some AI tools now do what used to take a 15-person team and a $200K budget. Even with all the AI doomerism, you can just lock in for the next 2 years and set up your family for a generation.
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@Polymarket Going to turn into the bar fight capital of the world, but I'm not mad at it.
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Polymarket@Polymarket·
We're excited to announce 'The Situation Room' by Polymarket is coming to Washington, D.C. The world's first bar dedicated to monitoring the situation. 🧵
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AltSociety AI
AltSociety AI@AltSocietyAI·
How to Get Paid Designing Thumbnails for News Articles and Blogs - The Underrated Freelance Gig Everyone's Overlooking by @telumaicreative This is a genius prompt that turns any article into a high-end editorial illustration. Full prompt below 👇
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Kevin E.@KevEdelson·
Revenue per Agent is the new Revenue per Employee
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Superteam USA
Superteam USA@SuperteamUSA·
Superteam USA is here. Our mission: accelerating founders across America. An elite community for builders across AI, biohacking, consumer products, onchain payments, and more.
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@Scobleizer @adityaag Solid read. I think a lot of us on here are feeling that relentlessness (and lack of sleep). And some of the most successful people of the future will surprise a lot of people on
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Robert Scoble
Robert Scoble@Scobleizer·
The post by @adityaag below is a must read. He talks about his roles as a technology leader in Silicon Valley and how everything he knows has changed in the past few weeks. “We are in the middle of what may be the largest shift ever in how knowledge work gets done.” From my perch in Silicon Valley. I see this not as just builders, but marked by curiosity and not resistance. Those who are curious about new things and curious enough to try get the new world. Those that argue the new world is evil do not. I made lists of 8,200 AI companies here on X. And 35,000 in AI. A small group dove right in. Most ignore it. Even after it slaps them in the face. I have seen this happen quite a few times in my career. Most resist and refuse to learn new things. Would rather just try to do the same thing they did yesterday. But then a new group comes along and gets the old group fired. That is about to happen in a way that I never have seen before. But I have seen disruption and caused it even. At Microsoft I was the first to do video interviews with a hand held camera. My videos got audience while those that had “skills” and “credentials” didn’t. Even with millions of dollars in TV studio equipment. An executive told me they laid off many who worked in the TV studio after I showed them a new way. The same will happen here. But at a much bigger scale. And in many industries at the same time. Lawyers. Hollywood. Software. Politics. Journalists. Education. So many jobs are about to radically change. If not all of them eventually. But I am preaching to the choir. If you are reading me you are already curious about AI. Or the algorithm showed me to you because you are angry about AI. I built my lists for the curious. Almost no one uses them. They are the best on any service of the people and companies building the new world. By far. In the next week I will show you what I built with them. The curious will eat it up. The rest will stick their heads in the sand. The sand people will fall further and further behind every day until it will be almost impossible. Do I feel sorry for them? No. It is time to change. There won’t be any apologies. My lists are here for the curious: x.com/scobleizer/lis… The others just won’t be relevant to the new world until they change. The world is brutal that way. I wasn’t popular with the folks who worked in the TV studio at Microsoft either. They refused to change. And yes I tried. Same advice now. Either you get new skills and become part of the new world or you will really struggle. Because people who get it are about to change EVERY PART OF HUMAN LIFE. The time for grieving and excuses is over. Either get curious and start to build or someone else will and you will find yourself locked out of the modern world. Sorry to be so rude. You can blame the messenger. But if you think I am an asshole for saying all this then that is a major signal that you don’t get it and aren’t positioned well to be successful in this new world. I will spend my efforts helping those that do. In my first book Shel Israel and I said the same. Either you get into social media, we wrote, 20 years ago, or you will find your career soon will end. We were right. Many lost their jobs, replaced by those who dive right in. I feel even more strongly that the same is happening now.
Aditya Agarwal@adityaag

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Kevin E.@KevEdelson·
Base44 tried to charge me for adding a collaborator this morning. I cancelled my subscription, and asked Claude to write a master prompt of the project I was creating, then rebuilt it instantly in Lovable. There are very low switching costs to most of these platforms. If they stop for one second they'll go to $0.
Aakash Gupta@aakashgupta

$100M ARR in 8 months. $200M in 12 months. $300M in 14 months. $400M in 15 months. On the surface, this is the most absurd revenue ramp in European software history. But there's a number Lovable has never disclosed, and it tells you more than the ARR figure ever could: churn. Sifted asked directly. Lovable declined to share churn rates or the split between monthly and annual subscribers. When a company growing this fast won't tell you how many customers leave, you're not looking at a revenue number. You're looking at a gross bookings number that gets re-annualized every month. Bolt's CEO said it publicly: "The churn rate for everyone is really high. You have to build a retentive business." He was talking about the entire vibe coding category. Then Bolt immediately changed its subscription model to try to keep people from leaving. That tells you everything about the structural retention problem in this space. Barclays flagged it too. Traffic to Lovable dropped 40% from peak as of September. Vercel's v0 dropped 64%. Bolt dropped 27%. The analysts wrote that these companies could have "questionable economics" because the revenue comes from month-to-month subscribers who won't stick around. Lovable's response? Osika says net dollar retention is above 100%. But net dollar retention only measures customers who stay. If 50% of your customers churn and the remaining 50% spend 2x more, your NDR looks incredible while your business is a revolving door. The unit economics are even spicier. Lovable pays Anthropic and OpenAI per inference call. Every app a user builds costs Lovable real money. A source told Sifted margins might have actually gotten worse after switching to agentic mode. At 45 employees generating $400M ARR, the revenue-per-employee ratio looks legendary until you realize most of that revenue flows straight to model providers. Meanwhile, Cursor just hit $2B ARR with 60% coming from enterprise contracts. That's the difference. Enterprise locks in annual commitments. Vibe coding's user base is overwhelmingly individual creators who build one app, ship it, and cancel. Lovable is real. The product works. The growth is genuinely unprecedented. But a $6.6B valuation on $400M ARR requires that revenue to stick. And the entire vibe coding sector has a structural retention problem that no one has solved yet. The fastest company to reach $400M ARR could also be the fastest to find out what happens when the denominator in your LTV/CAC ratio collapses.

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Someone's going to make a trillion dollars creating a payments platform specifically for solo founders who want to test a bunch of different products.
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Kevin E.@KevEdelson·
Looks like Icon is alive and well. They trolled everyone but are running paid ads on instagram. It doesn’t seem the ads they are running are AI generated but maybe they are.
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Kevin E.@KevEdelson·
@elonmusk Ballsy poll but that’s how we know you’re a real one
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Elon Musk
Elon Musk@elonmusk·
Have you ever bought anything based on an ad on this platform?
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Which bucket does marketing fall into?
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