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don't share your plans with people who aren't building anything they won't understand they'll try to protect you from your own ideas they'll remind you of the people who failed not because they want you to fail they just can't see the thing you see yet share the results when they're real keep the rest to yourself until then

@isareksopuro charged $6k for a chatgpt'd legal contract and called it AI native 😭 the audacity is actually impressive

state of silicon valley: > Delve (YC W24) >"AI Native" >literally no AI >forbes 30u30 founders >charges $6k for a chatgpt'd legal contract >uses Indian contractors to fake data (impersonating as US-based CPAs) > leaked sensitive client data (Lovable, Cluely) & blamed it on AI...?

@noahkagan the less BS to deal with becoming more valuable than the money itself is peak wisdom...

The older I get the less money I want to make. And it's more I want less BS to deal with in my life. My old house was on AirBnB - took it off and put it up for long-term rental. Weekly complaints, city taxes, annoying my neighbors, etc...oy vey. Just rented it out for long-term today. And as it turns out long-term rental makes more money! Go figure.

@Simon_Ingari work should add to your life not prevent you from living is going on my wall fr

My friend works with a company that is fully remote Because of this, he is able to: - Go the barber at 9 AM on a Tuesday - Go the gym at 3:30 PM - Start work earlier/later than normal to accommodate this schedule He doesn't have to ask permission to schedule his life as needed. He doesn't need his team to tell him what they are doing every second of every day. He doesn't have to worry about whether or not his team can be trusted as adults. Hire right. Trust your team. Repeat. Work should add to your life, it shouldn't prevent you from living. Do you agree?

@jonbrooks Good reminder :)

Only 23.1% of people made $100,000+/yr last year

@hthieblot explaining to your mom why you still don't have a real job after year 3 is a specific kind of pain nobody prepares you for...

One of the loneliest and most brutal stretches as a founder is holding unbreakable belief that you'll make it... when you have literally nothing to show for it. 2–4 years of: - Zero traction - Telling people "this is going to be big" and feeling like a fraud the second the words leave your mouth - Shrinking bank account - Friends buying houses / getting promotions while you explain to your mom why you still don't have a "real job" The imposter voice gets loudest at 3 AM: "Am I delusional?" "Can I actually pull this off?" "Am I really built for this?" Everyone around you might doubt it quietly, but the real killer is when you start doubting yourself. The truth: Yes, you can. Yes, you are that guy. But belief has to come before proof. You have to choose to back yourself hard when the scoreboard says zero, because that's exactly when most people quit. Those empty years aren't wasted. They're forging the version of you that can handle the win when it finally hits. Keep showing up. Stay obsessed. Never ever give up. The breakthrough comes after the doubt has tried to kill you a hundred times.

@miguelgbandeira 3 years in and the loneliness sneaks up on you in ways you don't expect until one day you realize you haven't had a real conversation in 4 days 😭

been working from home for 3 years i love it but i'm starting to feel the downsides it's lonely. it's distracting. and it's fucking with my routine there's no real barrier between work and personal life thinking about trying coworking spaces. might fix the routine, might help me separate work from home, maybe even meet some people anyone made this switch?

the funniest thing in this industry is watching people spend $5,000 on a course that teaches them the same thing a free youtube video explained 2 years ago and then they still dont execute because the problem was never information i had a client tell me he bought 3 different cold email courses before hiring us. i asked what he learned. he listed off a bunch of stuff that was completely correct. domain setup. warmup protocols. lead scraping. script frameworks. sending limits. he knew everything. he had sent zero emails. literally zero. 3 courses. $7,400 total. 14 months of "learning." zero emails sent. and hes not unusual. i talk to people like this every single week. they know the exact sending limits per inbox. they can explain DMARC and SPF and DKIM better than most deliverability consultants. they have notion databases full of niche research and competitor analysis and pricing frameworks. and they have zero clients because they never pressed send. at some point you have to accept that consuming information feels like progress but produces nothing the person making $30k/month from cold email right now didnt take a single course. they bought inboxes. wrote a bad email. sent it to 5,000 people. got 3 replies. closed 1. then did it again but slightly better. and again. and again. month 1 they made $2,500 month 3 they made $8,000 month 6 they made $19,000 month 12 they made $34,000 the whole time they were "figuring it out" by doing it while you were watching module 4 of a course taught by a guy who stopped doing cold email in 2021

@andyantiles_ 60 million chase points a year is a number i need a minute to process 😭

I have a friend who has been running a dropshipping brand at $3m/mo at 2% net margins He spends 20m/year on his Chase card Got 60m in Chase points last year alone He legit travels like a billionaire Unlimited first class flights, presidential suites at the craziest hotels in the world Last week meta moved him to invoicing Absolutely devastating My man played the game at the highest level And it’s all over because some corporate suit moron took away the greatest gift of internet entrepreneurship

@jonbrooks the money excuse is real until you meet broke parents who'd never change it and rich people who regret not starting sooner

My friends in their 30s are deciding not to have kids They’re saying two things: They don’t have the money It’s inconvenient to their lifestyle This is not good. What do we do?

something i wish someone told me 3 years ago about cold email the script matters maybe 20% the infrastructure matters maybe 30% the lead list matters at least 50% you can write the perfect email and send it from perfectly warmed domains with perfect authentication and if youre sending it to the wrong people nothing happens i had a client come to us after spending 4 months sending cold emails to "marketing managers at saas companies" thats not a lead list. thats a category. there are 80,000 marketing managers at saas companies. most of them cant even buy what youre selling. we rebuilt his list from scratch instead of "marketing managers at saas companies" we targeted "heads of demand gen at series B saas companies with 50 to 200 employees who are currently running google ads and dont have a podcast" why that specific? because his service was podcast production for saas companies and the ones already spending on demand gen have budget and the ones without a podcast are the ones who need him went from a 0.3% reply rate to a 4.1% reply rate same offer. same price. same emails almost word for word. different list. if your campaign isnt working stop rewriting the email for the 6th time and go look at who youre sending to. pull up 10 random leads from your list and ask yourself "if this person replied right now would they actually be a good client" if the answer is "maybe" or "i dont know" your list is the problem

the difference between a $2k/month agency and a $20k/month agency is not the service its the client i know two guys who both run facebook ads for local businesses guy 1 charges $500/month and works with coffee shops and yoga studios. he spends 4 hours per client because theyre always asking questions and dont understand anything and want to approve every single ad before it goes live. he has 14 clients and makes $7k/month and wants to quit every tuesday. guy 2 charges $3,000/month and works exclusively with personal injury lawyers. he spends 45 minutes per client per week because lawyers are busy and dont care about the creative they care about the calls. he has 7 clients and makes $21k/month and plays golf on fridays. same skill. same ad platform. same years of experience. one picked clients who had money and understood that marketing costs money the other picked clients who think $500 is a lot and want to see a return by next wednesday your niche isnt just "who do i serve" your niche is "who has money, pays on time, doesnt micromanage, and sees my service as an investment instead of an expense" lawyers. dentists. surgeons. roofers doing $3M+. HVAC companies. commercial cleaning franchises. these people spend $5,000 on a thursday without blinking go email them instead of arguing with a coffee shop owner about a $400 invoice

one year can change everything last year: small wins slow progress this year: breakthrough exponential jump growth isn’t linear it compresses failure teaches you what actually works

@techsaleshackz the fact that ElevenLabs went from $3.3B to $11B in a single year while everyone else is still debating if voice AI is real 😭

Startups in NYC/SF to keep your eye on rn: - Profound - ElevenLabs - Decagon - Sierra - Aaru - Listen Labs - Factory Big fan of what some of these teams are building. Have met w/ a lot of the for GTM/Ops/FDE recruiting As always, best team + pmf + leadership will win in their space

@trentjhughes almost nobody is doing it yet is the window and it's closing faster than people think

Local business idea: AI agency for small businesses Automate their scheduling Automate their customer service Automate their social media Charge $1,500-$3,000/month 20 clients is $30,000-$60,000 Almost nobody is doing it yet This is the new local marketing agency...

@chasedownleads bro discovered bank fraud and called it passive income

Most banks will give you $150 if you open an account with them Open 1,000 bank accounts a year Can do that in a week That’s $150k a year For only working one week Ultimate passive income hack

@shaguncrypto don't touch the 401k. the penalties alone will make you cry

A guy is 30. He has: • $110k in a 401k • $70k Bitcoin • $25k in cash He’s thinking of buying a house first. What would you tell him?

If you don’t sell a company for a big exit, building real wealth is brutal. High income = massive taxes. Down years erase momentum. Cash gets locked into illiquid assets. Revenue looks flashy. Liquidity builds freedom.

@C_3C_3 nobody explains tax burden this way in school and maybe they should

Want your blood to boil? The average American works 106 days to cover their tax burden. 3.5 months. 29% of the year. Goes towards paying taxes. Your time and hard work. As we see staggering fraud all over America. The American worker is getting screwed. Sickening.

@Zephyr_hg less than 3% have them right now is the part that should have everyone paying attention immediately

By 2027, almost every job paying over $150K will list the same 5 skills as requirements. Right now, less than 3% of professionals have them. The gap between those who learn them in 2026 and those who don't will be massive.