Simon Ellis

@SashaKaletsky Very interested.

Going to create a Building on WhatsApp founder/investor community. Will be a place (on Slack ironically) to discuss WhatsApp: •API/eng •Meta support •Biz models •etc Lmk if of interest. Adding early adopters first. Most underrated space in tech imo. Needs a community!

@VusiThembekwayo You get chatGPT to write this for you?

@SashaKaletsky Great article. I look forward to watching how it unfolds.

Americans hate WhatsApp. Trust me, I've been trying to convince them to reply to me on it for 6 years. But after years predicting WhatsApp's US rise "in the future", I think it's on the verge of happening now. Just published how I think it will go down. consumeourinternet.com/p/how-and-why-…

@markvanheerden They can write me off. I didn’t write back though 👏👏👏

If you have a couple minutes to spare today give this a watch. What a human being- a massive inspiration to me personally. We can ALL take so much from this.

Trying my luck here. If anyone is selling or know of someone who is selling tickets for the Rugby World Cup final, please contact me. #tickets #RWCFinal📷 #RWC2023📷

@ryanjunee These are very generic.

90% of all Startup knowledge out there is outdated, irrelevant and just plain wrong. But don't worry. I got you. After building two $250M companies, here is a mega list of the 25 most important concepts I believe every founder should know of...

More context from @balajis. Spot on.

The beginning of the end for the dollar. A country cannot print money forever. If the #usd is no longer the worlds reserve currency, what is likely to take its place? @Carps_Crumbs any thoughts?

I guess it’s time we sort the Wifi Out. Great to have passed the 1,000 review mark at The Tithe Barn, the little hotel we operate in the Lake Districts. thetithebarnhotel.co.uk

Remember the Nokia 3310. It was released in Sept 2000 to a lot of hype and excitement. Today we have the iPhone 14, only 23 years later. In just 5 years, I think we’ll look back at Chat-GPT and it’ll be the equivalent of looking back at the 3310 today. Watch this space. #AI

@SashaKaletsky @abewolke @iamdulma Everyone likes money.

@abewolke @iamdulma 100%. Creators like money

Selling to creators is HARD. Creators have the: 1. Limited purchasing power of an SMB 2. High churn profile of a consumer 3. Inaccessibility of an enterprise This is the Unholy Trinity of the creator economy. To defeat the Unholy Trinity you need something truly exceptional.

@opeyre @Cron @illfab Same for me, if we can do this, this becomes my default calendar!

Hey @Cron are there any tips you could share in order to have access to my iCloud calendars within Cron? That's the only missing thing for me to switch to Cron as my default calendar app on Mac Thanks 🙏

@SKaletsky @JOBJACKApp @Moya_App

🙏 Favour request 🙏 We think the next big app platforms will have core chat UXs (e.g. WhatsApp). So far have 2 relevant portcos, seeking more. Will also write a piece on it. Can anyone help a brother out and tag some relevant people building apps on WhatsApp / other chat apps?

We’ve started an early stage investment syndicate. Subscribe if you’d like to join: paxosvc.substack.com/subscribe

“Uber recorded its first-ever cash flow positive quarter, generating free cash flow of $382mn in the three months to the end of June.” What most people don’t know is that it has burn’t through $25bn since being founded 13 years ago. $25bn. Absolutely wild.

There is most certainly a place for remote work. Especially when it comes to deep work. But when it comes to solving problems, collaborating and build real relationships at work, nothing beats being in person.

It’s expensive building a software company / FinTech. Conveniently reminded of that today. In FY21, @tymebankza had accumulated losses of R4.9BN and incurred a loss of R926m. New customers = ~1m Assumed CAC = ~R930 Those are scary numbers.

@ZipcarUK your app is down and call centre hasn’t answered for 35 mins. I’m afraid that means I’m leaving the flex car I drove outside, unlocked. There is literally nothing I can do. I assume there is a major outage. Please advise.

@SimonBorchardt @NathiMthethwaSA Well you got it

If the Stormers win today, the government must allow a capacity crowd for the #URC final at Cape Town Stadium. The occasion demands it and the current crowd restrictions are illogical. @NathiMthethwaSA