Jack Kavanagh

I'll never understand doomer takes on ecommerce. "I would never start a @Shopify store in {insert year}" "You're not profitable until you hit X" "You have to launch thousands of ads" (way too sweaty) My favorite one is "The economy" It's all so noisy and honestly such a bad vibe (sorry if you're a bad vibe) My store is coming up on 2 years old and just passed $1m net. And I'm not trying that hard. I'm paying attention to other things. This is everything that we're doing. My VA sends email & sms with Shopify messaging Nearly all my ad spend is on catalog ads and I have 6 paid apps @Marpipe_HQ by @danpantelo @aftersell by @varunkundra @KnoCommerce by @JeremiahPrummer @VideoWiseHQ by @claudiucioba @tapcart, I don't know who made tapcart. and @AliaPopups by @iamshaanarora and @corylgill What else... We just got @memelordtech by @iamjasonlevin for $20 a month and it's rad, so we're going to try launching meme ads and we're tracking our competitors with @foreplay_co If you have an idea for a physical product that people might like, Shopify has made it pretty easy. Don't let the doomers stop you.

@colindougherty Congrats dude :)

Converted at the altar. CAC was high, LTV is infinite.

@EmmettNaughton Congrats dude ☺️

Today is my 10 year anniversary with my wife! She makes me better. What a wild ride its been. I'm Lovin' It.

Jeff Bezos: "If I do my job right, the value to society and civilization from my for-profit companies will be much, much larger than the good that I do with my charitable giving."

@jwkprod_ @LukeGromen Will printing create more energy?

@LukeGromen The spot price in the west and the east, both paper and physical, are in harmony. I agree with you; long term gold will rise as the US government prints. But if the US doesn’t print (liquidity remains tight) at a rate that outpaces economic decline, UST yields will remain low

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Thanks @jackdoesecom @JeremiahPrummer @rishabhmjain for having me on the SaaS operators!

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@jacob_posel Congrats ☺️

This is my fiancée Elissa. At 1, her family fled war in the dead of night At 15, she moved to the US. She didn’t speak English In college, she worked multiple jobs at the same time to support herself She’s the first in her family to go to college Today, she became a doctor

@rishabhmjain On a Sunday evening?

These always happen at the worst times

@callebtc that's a leading indicator to price? merchants are one small representation of retail demand at best

Bitcoin's north star metric isn't the price, it's the number of merchants accepting it.

Major life hack: Don't complain, ever. Nobody likes a complainer. They drain the energy of everyone around them. It's exhausting spending time around someone who constantly complains about things outside their control. If it’s within your control, go do something about it. If it’s not, you’re just wasting energy thinking about it. Complaining gives too much power to the thing. Take back that power.

Last week we talked to @obviceo and @kreatekit about how ai is changing ecommerce and ecom saas, @rishabhmjain brought up how fast @codyplof is moving with ai, and my 2c is that it's never been better, claude or codex is doing most of the work for you, you just need to ask for it

This is something the High Growth Handbook taught me: Build systems amongst the chaos. “When you’re in the thick of it, it is so hard to move yourself out to get the view you need on things.”

It was great to jam with Ron and Ankit on all things ecom & saas. Thanks for the chat guys @obviceo @kreatekit

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Appreciate your thoughts here, but tribute, dispute resolution and inheritance only work because the money can be traded. A shell, or any money, only settles a dispute because both sides know it can be traded or used. If the receiver couldn't use the money, it wouldn't resolve the dispute. In any dispute resolution with money, trade is preferred to violence. @saifedean has shared thoughts on this.

@jackdoesecom No. Tribute and dispute resolution payments, along with inheritance, are not "trade", unless you stretch the definition of that word far beyond recognition.

@NickSzabo4 translated: before money was used for trade, it was used for trade.

@NickSzabo4 I'm defending Menger from beyond the grave with a silly joke. I'm a big fan of your work and this article is beautifully written, but stitching is downstream of trade, no?

@jackdoesecom WTF?

@MaxGrant__ @colindougherty you have lots of options Max

@colindougherty @jackdoesecom What if I want my rings made by slaves..?

“Most engagement rings are made by slaves.” That’s why Jack Kavanagh (@jackdoesecom) sells lab-grown diamonds, but he’s done simply educating customers. His jewelry brand is going on the offensive—Hims-style “sick of the system” energy. Marketing that has an enemy wins.

@jackdoesecom If you don’t stand for something, you stand for nothing

Justice for the DTC bros. I’ve l heard a lot of slander against dtc bros but they are an underrepresented misunderstood and misdiagnosed social class just who deserve justice. Kind of like Disney adults