Stephen Bates

@PetesyCarroll Petesy - future HOF

I’m truly honored. We’ve come a long way, Brendan and I. You’d have to say fair play.

@lennysan entaingine.com

Is your company using ChatGPT, or a custom GPT, or a tool you've built yourself using some AI APIs to make your non-eng teams more efficient day-to-day? I'd love to know! I'm looking for examples of internal AI products already making teams legitimately more productive, especially taking load off engineers. e.g. a GPT to help you analyze experiment results, a GPT to write FB ad copy, etc. Please share!

I’m gonna give 10 random people that repost this and follow me $25,000 for fun (the $250,000 my X video made) I’ll pick the winners in 72 hours

.@RevolutApp Seeing as I haven't heard from you after I posted on LinkedIn. I'll try here instead. linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

@james_mcelroy_1 @NDRC_hq Congrats, great presentation 👏🏻

@ij_browne @NDRC_hq @dogpatchlabs Looking forward to it Ian

For anyone heading to #saastock next week, why not come along to the @NDRC_hq Demo Day in @dogpatchlabs lu.ma/ndrc-accelerat…

@moizali @Codie_Sanchez Congrats @moizali at the start how did you trust / evaluate the suppliers from Etsy and at what point did you transition from Etsy suppliers to more commercial manufacturers and what did that decision making process look like? Thanks

@Codie_Sanchez That's me! Ask me anything about Native and I'll answer everything I can!

Ever heard of Native deodorant? Their story's wild: • Exited for $100M • Within 2.5 years What's even crazier: • They ONLY raised $500k total It's the kind of biz that inspires you to just *start* something... Here's the story: Moiz Ali got the idea for Native after reading the back of an Axe can. He had no idea what the majority of ingredients actually were. At the time, Moiz knew that 'natural' products were on the rise (natural deodorant was the number 1 product on Etsy in 2015). And so... He decided to start a natural deodorant company. Bear in mind - at this point, Moiz knows NOTHING about deodorant. His reaction is one of the reasons I love this story – it shows how important mindset is in business: “I know nothing, and in six months, I’m going to become one of the world’s leading experts on deodorant. I’m just going to spend my time learning, and I’m going to figure it out.” So - how did Moiz make the first bar of Native? He went on Etsy, found the best makers of natural deodorant & asked them to white label their product. This was smart because on Etsy, Minimum Order Quantities (MOQs) are ~100 (rather than 1000s with manufacturers). And as is often the case, it took dozens of no's before one woman agreed to make their product. At this point, Moiz launched on Product Hunt. With no deodorant in-hand, he sold his first 60 virtual units. That's when he ACTUALLY put in the first order. This is a theme in business success stories: lowering risk by testing the market before committing. The worst possible case? He's in the hole a couple hundred $. FAR better than taking out a huge loan, ordering 5,000 units from a manufacturer & then realizing no one wants to buy them. Another thing Moiz did right? Hyper-focus on customers. Despite early traction, he quickly realized the first product wasn't great. So he spent the first year fine-tuning the product – by sending out free samples & iterating on feedback. The results? Native went from a 4-star rating & 25% repeat order rate to a 4.7 rating & 50% repeat order rate. We know repeat orders are king in D2C. Coupled with killer A/B testing on FB ads, Moiz scaled the biz from $50k revenue in Jan 2016 to $1M in Nov of the same year. Other ways they grew so fast: • Launching subscription plans • Asking for video customer testimonials & using these as ads • Sending humanized, fun emails & cards with purchases (i.e. upgrading customer experience) In 2017, Native had hit between $25-35M in revenue – with ONLY 8 fulltime employees (5 in customer service, 1 in ops, 1 in marketing & 1 working closely with Moiz). They were acquired by P&G for $100M. This was the first purchase P&G had made in 10 years. Moiz says there were 4 main reasons he went with P&G: • Value alignment during negotiation (no over-the-top diligence requests & respecting Moiz's vision) • The dedication that P&Gers showed toward their work • Alignment on brand & creative • Resources for future growth I love this founding story – I'm inspired by: • Moiz knowing nothing about deodorant but picking a simple biz model • His obsession with customers • How insanely fast they grew • The care behind the exit It's one of those stories that makes you think... "I could make it if I just took the leap."

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@Flynn_Stone10 #3am

What a win! What a legend..

@hubermanlab @JoeBormann2 @hubermanlab Id recommend using Chopcast to automatically create bite sized videos for your listeners chopcast.io

@JoeBormann2 I talked about 90 minute learning boutw but the episodes are timestamped so they can be digested in multiple bouts of listening. I want each episode to be as thorough as possible. Dividing related content across episodes is not effective.

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@chrisPinpoint @homeofguinness To Arthur

Great day out in the @homeofguinness 😁

@Loc_Enterprise @eoinbara Love seeing your face everyday 😀

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@Micky_Irving S1 5.2/10

What a pleasure watching @KatieTaylor box. We will miss her when she is gone. 🇮🇪 And it would be absolutely criminal, a true travesty, if she doesn’t fight at Croke Park next year. Put her in there against a broomstick. Who cares. She’ll sell it out. Make it happen!

@mattturck @mrbenwinn @1250 😃

Halloween is going to be lit this year

@Jason @chrisPinpoint at @Tracworx saving companies millions of dollars in managing returnable assets and giving VC’s huge FOMO.

Tell me about an interesting seed stage startup

@spochadoir @Pendred

he’s training for the walk into EP

@MoonOverlord @Micky_Irving very you

what you look like showing your NFTs to other people