Drake Dukes

Pitchbook charges over $20K for funding insights & doesn’t let you share the information… I say liberate the data! 🔐 So our team put together a list of all 5K+ founders that raised a Series A within the last year. RT this tweet & I’ll DM you the list Here’s our insights🧵

@TheNathanRuff Yesssir 💯

@DDukes12 We met there!! I forgot that

I joined Trends Facebook group by The Hustle on Black Friday for $100 in 2020 That decision has the highest ROI of anything I’ve ever done 1. Made 1M+ off of contracts from people I met in the group. 3M+ when you include second degree network. 2. Met the guy who introduced me to @josiah_daves who’s Google ads changed my entire business and life 3. Became aware of @thesamparr

The highest-performing email I’ve ever seen? Subject line: “1-star review” Sent to SMB owners. ☠️

@stephenolmon @tbpn Dig it

I want to make @TBPN for home school / alternative schooling Mega trend Passionate cohort Growing services base Infinite relevant interviews

Tech companies will continue to buy media companies. Need to add OpenAI x @tbpn to the list

Not April Fools 🔥

MeekMill needs to start a newsletter on @beehiiv MeekMail

Whoaaa United 😏

@_toddanderson @mattstaton Been tracking your deep dives into this since we last caught up. Fun to keep up with! We’ll have to catch up soon

@DDukes12 @mattstaton exactly! going quite well so far. and its a blast to work on

Heres the latest version of Hermes, our speed to lead bot for home service companies. Complete with dynamic conversation handling, iMessages, and lead qualification/escalation.

Ah got it! So essentially all the stuff you could do with a Twilio number (green SMS). But you’re betting on BLUE ! (the psychological effect - higher response rates) but that requires new hardware for every build instead of a ~$1 new twilio number instantly. Makes a ton of sense for high ticket services where you’re coming in and setting everything up for them!

@DDukes12 @mattstaton Yeah, it's not the business number, and then we just forward calls on to clients from that number. For the iMessage setup, it does require new hardware for every build, which is kind of a bummer. No way around it, as far as I can tell in my research so far.

@_toddanderson @mattstaton This is sweet! I guess I don’t understand the iMessage set up + how that part scales. It’s not the business’s number? I guess most shouldn’t care.

@mattstaton Old iPhone right now. Prod runs through VPSs though and eventually virtual iPhones

@itsmarcosruiz Now we’re thinking BIG

@DDukes12 country club in space ill be here all night

I’m looking to start my next business. Here’s my criteria if anyone has any ideas… Airplanes, beers, golf, & napkin contracts

@TProsperityNet 🤣🤣

@toddsaunders New podcast series ?? 👀

I know Silicon Valley startups don't want to hear this..... But the combination of someone in the trades with deep domain expertise and Claude Code will run circles around your generic software. I talked to Cory LaChance this morning, a mechanical engineer in industrial piping construction in Houston. He normally works with chemical plants and refineries, but now he also works with the terminal He reached out in a DM a few days ago and I was so fired up by his story, I asked him if we could record the conversation and share it. He built a full application that industrial contractors are using every day. It reads piping isometric drawings and automatically extracts every weld count, every material spec, every commodity code. Work that took 10 minutes per drawing now takes 60 seconds. It can do 100 drawings in five minutes, saving days of time. His co-workers are all mind blown, and when he talks to them, it's like they are speaking different languages. His fabrication shop uses it daily, and he built the entire thing in 8 weeks. During those 8 weeks he also had to learn everything about Claude Code, the terminal, VS Code, everything. My favorite quote from him was when he said, "I literally did this with zero outside help other than the AI. My favorite tools are screenshots, step by step instructions and asking Claude to explain things like I'm five." Every trades worker with deep expertise and a willingness to sit down with Claude Code for a few weekends is now a potential software founder. I can't wait to meet more people like Cory.

@TheNathanRuff Sorry man I know you hired me as the clown for your kid’s birthday but I actually don’t do balloons, jokes or children

It’s hard to comprehend how bad people some people are at business Working with a vendor who we hired to do a very specific thing and now they say they can’t do the thing but the deal is done What??

@everestchris6 Openclaw

My OpenClaw bot builds websites & mails a postcard with a QR link to local businesses on autopilot... You can use it to land new customers without a single cold call, here's how it works: - Finds 100s of local businesses via Google Maps - Builds each one a custom website in minutes - Prints a real postcard with their site preview + QR code - Mails it directly to their door - They scan it, see their site, and reach out - Runs 24/7 completely hands off Direct mail gets a much higher response rate than cold email. Reply "OpenClaw" and I'll send you the full breakdown of how you can do it too (must be following so I can DM)

@thatguybg Whoa this is legit !