James Mcelroy

@realBobbyHealy Class @realBobbyHealy congrats!

We've raised $50 million to make air delivery the infrastructure of everyday life. manna.aero/blog/series-b

@SolanaSensei Did 60 days start of this year and four months a couple years ago, zero benefits. The first coffee back is wild.

Been totally off caffeine for over 2 weeks now Have noticed 0 positive benefits Fascinating Does it take longer or is this a scam

@adamsilverman Any recommendations for option 2?

You run a legacy company that hasn’t adopted AI yet. You have 3 options: Option 1: Pay McKinsey $500,000 to map your processes Option 2: Install monitoring software to see what employees actually do all day Option 3: Hire an internal AI transformation lead Here’s what no one tells you: Option 1 gets you a pretty PDF that collects dust on a shelf. Option 2 is hard to get but in from CIOs Option 3 sounds smart but that person spends 6 months “learning the business” before doing anything. To me the real answer is Option 2 but done invisibly, passively, and with the employee’s benefit in mind. Not surveillance. But rather workflow discovery. Software that quietly learns how your company actually operates, then hands you the automation playbook on a silver platter. No consultants. No politics. No guessing. This is a $100B+ market hiding in plain sight. Someone is going to build this and print money. (maybe someone already is 👀)

@Luke_Mackey @Siftedeu Class mate 🙌

Made the top 10 of the @Siftedeu 100 in the UK and Ireland - who knows insurance sucked so much!

Great to be in Washington, D.C. this St. Patrick's Day, celebrating with some incredible business leaders from Ireland & America. 🍀

londonmaxxing

@aakashgupta Recurring or Run rate?

Wix just printed money. They bought Base44 for $80M in June 2025. Nine months later it's at $100M ARR. That's a payback period of less than a year on an acquisition, which almost never happens in SaaS M&A. For context, Google paid $1.65B for YouTube. Salesforce paid $27.7B for Slack. Meta paid $1B for Instagram. Those deals took years to justify the price. Wix got a $100M ARR product for $80M in cash, then pointed 250M+ users at it. By August 2025, two months post-acquisition, Wix's CEO was already calling Base44's growth "supersonic" and raising full-year revenue guidance. They went from projecting $40-50M ARR for Base44 to accelerating toward $100M before the year ended. The Super Bowl ad last month tells you how confident they are in the unit economics. You don't buy a $7M+ ad slot for a product that isn't already printing. Maor Shlomo built it solo, wrote 90% of the code with Claude, had fewer than 10 employees, and sold for $80M. Smart exit. But the person who made the real trade was Wix's CEO, who recognized that a vibe coding platform plugged into Wix's infrastructure and distribution could 10x faster than it could alone. $80M for $100M+ ARR. Best SaaS acquisition of the decade so far.

@eoghan Most of the people hating on this couldn’t sell life jackets on the titanic

I’m kind of curious to know what $5B companies all Brex haters today have started and sold

@rahulluthra22 File 🙌

Pitch deck design for founders & startups. → 27 slides + figma file + font file → Comment on the post and I'll send it to you → Must be following so I can DM

@romanbuildsaas System

linkedin outreach books me 20-30 calls per week its 100% automated and costs basically nothing to run just reply "system" + follow and I'll DM you the method

@romanbuildsaas GOJI

72% connection acceptance rate. 56% reply rate.33 calls booked in 10 days. Ater 3 months of testing, we cracked the code. We built the ULTIMATE workflow for LinkedIn outreach (100% automated) Want the copy & paste automation template? Reply "GOJI" + follow for access

@THArrowOfApollo Fyxer

We built a cold email machine for an Ai SaaS that projected $32.2M in annual pipeline. We only got to $4.3M before they fired us. I'm sharing everything anyway. F-ups included. Fyxer AI came to us right before their demo day. "Can you send half a million emails next week?" We said yes. Built the machine in 7 days. 6 weeks later: 2,228 signups. One of their first ~$1M enterprise deals. Demo day went great. Then they raised a $10M Series A. Then we got fired. And it was all my fault. Our testing tanked their CAC. So they issued a 30-day cancellation notice. My biggest client. Gone. But. I pitched a performance model. Proved the results. Then they canceled the cancel. That led to: - 8.8 million emails per month at peak - 4,275 signups per month - 643 emails per signup (11x improvement from where we started) - $4.3M in annual pipeline revenue Then Fyxer raised a $30M Series B and hit $17M ARR. I documented the entire 10-month journey on the largest cold email operation of 2025. Here's what's inside: - How we went from 7,317 emails per positive to 643 emails per signup - The 26-variant testing process that found 11x multipliers - Why we got fired and how I saved it - Which audience segments converted 5X better (and which we stopped targeting) - Why we only hit $4.3M of a possible $32.2M (and what it would take to get there) - The "Series A Plan" framework we built from this Want the complete Fyxer playbook? 1. Follow me 2. Reply "FYXER" below I'll send you the 24-minute video playbook. P.S. Repost this and I'll also send you the full written version with every stat, timeline, and the "Series A Plan" we charge $25k/month for.

@AlfieJCarter invite

just made a private group for GTM engineers and agency owners we'll be sharing the most in-depth cold outreach sauce there is and you'll be able to network with other killers in your space reply "invite" and i'll send you an invite (make sure you're following)

@Kazanjy What about enterprise?

Founders: Here's how to structure pilots that actually close: - Max 30 days - 3 mandatory training sessions - Weekly usage metrics reviews - 2 required use cases completed - Success criteria defined up front Charge 25% of annual fee for the pilot. No more endless trials.

@NoahEpstein_ Amplify

i stopped selling AI automation here's what i sell instead used to walk into meetings and say: "we'll automate your workflows" "AI will handle the repetitive stuff" "you'll save 20 hours a week" close rate? maybe 15% businesses heard "automation" and pictured: → robots replacing their team → systems they don't understand → becoming dependent on tech that breaks fear kills deals so i changed the pitch completely now i sell "employee amplification" same exact service completely different frame here's how it works: old pitch: "we'll automate your invoice processing" new pitch: "tinky winky spends 6 hours a day matching invoices. what if tinky winky did that in 11 minutes and spent the rest of the day on supplier negotiations—the thing you actually hired him for?" old pitch: "AI will handle your customer emails" new pitch: "po answers 200 emails a day. 180 of them are the same 12 questions. what if po only handled the 20 that actually needed a human brain, and spent the rest of the time closing deals?" the client doesn't want fewer employees they want better employees they hired tinky winky because tinky winky is brilliant at negotiation but tinky winky is drowning in data entry they hired po because po closes deals but po is buried in inbox management automation isn't about replacing tinky winky and po it's about unleashing them when you pitch replacement, you trigger fear when you pitch amplification, you trigger excitement "your team is about to become superhuman" "same headcount, 3x the output" "tinky winky finally does what you hired tinky winky for" close rate went from 15% to over 60% same service same price same delivery different story stop selling automation start selling what automation enables comment "AMPLIFY" and i'll send you the exact pitch framework + the discovery questions that uncover who tinky winky and po are in every business

@SebJohnsonUK Nice one Seb!

4 months I quit my 9-5 to build the biggest media company in European tech. I’ve been bootstrapping it, reinvesting all revenue back into the business and living off savings. It’s early days but very grateful to everyone who has supported me

@kevinwu_hi Congrats @kevinwu_hi - curious to know what changed? Idea or moving location?

1 year ago I was living in Germany and broke. We pitched 50 VCs for $500k Pre-seed and all of them said no. One year later, I moved to SF and raised $4.7M from Nexus, YC and Paul Graham with the round done in less than a week. The YC effect:)

@lizwessel Hey Liz - is this a public thesis / article ? Would be great to check it out!

@NicolaiH96 @LeTour 14 of the top 15 have admitted / been caught doping. Pogacar being the exception…

🗣️ "This climb came in 2022, I was behind in the GC, I was trying to break through the wall to get back the yellow jersey but Jumbo (Visma-LAB) were too strong back then. I already forgot about this, I was just looking forward to today. But I had people coming to me saying: ‘This is revenge time’." Interview with 🇸🇮@TamauPogi after his stage 12 victory and a dedication to Samuele Privitera. #TDF2025 | @Continental_fr

🚀 We’re launching Axe and announcing our €1.5M pre-seed! 🌐 Axe is the AI teammate for logistics—automating tasks, streamlining workflows, and boosting team efficiency. 📈 The future of logistics is AI-powered. 🔗 eu-startups.com/2025/05/irish-… #AI #Logistics #Startups