Andrew Sumitani

@gregisenberg StarCraft and Age of Empires was the top row for me.

I never got an MBA. This was my business school. Maybe you too?

@darrenmarble Or they secretly want that thing for themselves. Good advice.

When people criticize you, they’re often verbalizing the things they hate about themselves.

@kaleighf Yes building and creating a presence with the press was THE anchor at my last company.

I don’t know why more content teams aren’t acting on this, but…can I tell you a secret? Journalists (trained, former, present) are wildly underutilized when it comes to content marketing efforts. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

I'm back after a 288-day X/Twitter hiatus. - 2nd child born. - Started helping later stage companies. - Still bad at golf. Ask me anything.

It'd be funny if what fixes Twitter in the end is just a captcha on every tweet.

Startups can be ridiculously self-righteous. So you're telling me: You're struggling to disrupt a crowded category. Led by a massive publicly traded BigCo. Yet you've bought nothing but Quickbooks, Hubspot, Zoominfo, Outreach, and Zoom. Does that seem right to you?

@Patticus This is the best bit of this thread.

How bad will the recession be? After analyzing revenue data from 27.2k companies: it's worse than we thought. - B2B getting hit hardest since '08 - Consumer $$ tanking What should you do? - 6 ways to not lose in recessions - 4 ways companies win in them Thread time 🧵

@naynerz @MJB_SF This deserves its own blog post.

@MJB_SF A hack I use when I want fresh hot McDonald’s fries is to ask for no salt — then they have to make an order just for you 😉

I have six cans of full fat coconut milk. What should I make with these?

People criticize Asian/Italian/etc. restaurants in America for not being "authentic." So you really gonna chastise a business for knowing its customer and filling demand for greater profits - tactics probably as enterprising and American as it gets?

@dvassallo He'll make a bid to buy Apple.

What will Elon do when Apple asks for 30% of Twitter’s revenue?

People like three kinds of people: 1) Those who are like themselves; 2) Those they would like to be; and 3) Those who like them back.

Don't waste your time being afraid.

@dvassallo 🤯

When I worked at Amazon we used to make some software slow on purpose. Then when a problem caused real slowness, we’d remove the fake delays and things would feel normal. The fake delays made users happier, even though they all wanted faster software. Makes you think.

What is the best mass-produced chocolate, and why is it peanut butter cups every time?

Prediction: @ChloeGMoretz will rival Michelle Pfeiffer's performance as Catwoman someday. Yes I just started watching Peripherals.

If you're trying to run PPC for 100k+ ACV product. Do you even know how aggro that is? Think it through.

Tinted windows on the front half of cars should be banned. Let me see your face, you coward.

Three of the most successful words in marketing. Ready. To. Eat.

Just remember. People enjoy ego strokes FAR more than they'll admit.