John Chen

Meta ads this Meta ads that. When was the last time you Meta real customer of yours and asked them why they bought from you?

@iamshackelford See you later today!

@iamshackelford Will be the first time meeting uncle John

@john_the_chen Seriously? I’m Bringing the baby!!!

Guangzhou in May. Speaking at this one. Not a stage full of pitches. A room of 100+ operators actually building 7-9 figure brands. Bestfulfill put this together and ngl - they built something worth showing up for. I'm going deep on subscription, scaling, and what actually drives retention beyond the first purchase. Winning the first sale is the easy part. What it takes to build a customer base that keeps coming back and spends more.. That's the real game. The location is the strategy. Guangzhou. Canton Fair. Same trip. Two days of growth - acquisition, creative, scaling spend. Then you walk out standing next to the factories building the products you're selling. Most founders are trying to solve a media buying problem when they actually have a supply chain problem. This trip forces you to see both at the same time. That's not an accident. That's leverage. May 2-3. Guangzhou. Secure your seat → bestfulfill.com/mastermind

@jordan_ross_8F Os

I fully reverse-engineered Ramp's internal AI operating system for marketing agencies. Their system — called Glass — is how they got 99% of their entire company using AI every single day. 350+ reusable workflows. Every tool connected at first login. Memory that refreshes every 24 hours. Automations running while everyone sleeps. I partnered with my engineering team and we broke down every component inside it. Then we rebuilt the whole thing for marketing agencies. 76 pages. Every system. Every layer. Every step. Steal it. Comment "OS" and I'll send it directly. Must be a following to receive auto DM

@Branjkim Inject me with your mold daddy

"I'm not sure if I like being in product" A friend said this to me recently. And I thought... maybe I feel the same way. Then I looked down and realized I was watching injection molding videos at 9:30PM on the couch 😂

@Branjkim Preach daddy

Get PMF right before you put in all the rest of the hard work. It takes so many people to get a product made and into the hands of the customer, you can validate great ideas long before you ever go through the rest of the process.

@AY_Orbach Didn’t he leave to work for Icon?

@NotZainAgain The Heros DTC needs but doesn’t deserve

i’m assembling a team

@Branjkim You won’t daddy

@john_the_chen TIME TO SELL SOME GUMMIES!!!!!

Don't let supplement brands raising millions distract you. Jealousy is wasted energy; stay focused on your own lane and keep building.

@jordihays @tbpn April fools was yesterday

TBPN has been acquired by OpenAI The world is changing quickly but TBPN will stay the same. Live every weekday just with a lot more resources. Thank you to everyone that has been a part of this journey big or small. We are 17 months in and unironically just getting started.

@Branjkim Barz

You don't need more products. You need more HERO products. Products that have a great reason for being. Get this clear before it goes through 20 hands at the factory, 10 hands via ocean freight, and 5 hands to get it to the customer...just to learn it's not wanted.

@TheD2CWatch You are the hero we need but we don’t deserve. Please keep going

Hey team, sorry for being annoying again. But either you've discovered a breakthrough in human endocrinology, or something is very wrong with this review. 254 to 861 ng/dL in 6 weeks. A 607 ng/dL increase. Injecting yourself with testosterone enanthate at 500mg per week in a cycle typically produces total testosterone levels of 1500 to 2500 ng/dL. But it takes around 8 weeks or so just to reach stable blood levels. And that is pharmaceutical grade exogenous testosterone replacing your natural production entirely. Clinical TRT at 200mg per week takes ~8 to 12 weeks to stabilize. Most men land between 500 and 800 ng/dL. The best published human study on any natural testosterone intervention ever conducted showed increases of 46 to 122 ng/dL over 12 weeks using a patented highly potent standardized extract. Joshua allegedly beat all of that in 6 weeks with a capsule. 607 ng/dL in 6 weeks has never been documented in any human being in any clinical study in the history of endocrinology research. Definitely not from supplements. Extreme endogenous spikes of this magnitude do exist in medical literature, but they're associated with testosterone secreting tumours. Aggressive steroid protocols at 1000mg+ per week, which are considered extreme doses, would typically push levels to 2000+ ng/dL but that's pharmaceutical grade exogenous testosterone, not a capsule. There's really only two scenarios: 1) This review is completely fabricated and there is no Joshua that has gotten these results. OR 2) Joshua is on an extremely high dose steroid cycle simultaneously, but even then the numbers don't quite add up, and that would have nothing to do with the supplement. Would love if a Doctor like @AbudBakri can fact check me on this miracle experienced by Joshua AFTER ~1.5 months of taking a supplement to make sure that I'm not lying. @mengotomars

@dylanryankim I hate this but I love this

In our post-purchase surveys, TikTok was the #1 way customers were finding us. Do you want to figure out how to make organic social a moat in your business? Reply MOAT and I'll write it.

We drove 3,000,000,000 organic views for my backpack company with no ad spend behind any of it. Here's how we did it. 🧵

@Branjkim Preach my king

Most CAC problems are actually PMF problem in disguise

@iamshackelford I see you and raise you my brother

The Chinese Peptide got me guys.

Honestly I find @davidsenra a little blue collar and insufferable but the value he brings on his podcasts are undeniable. Gotta give credit when it’s due the @t_xu podcast is a banger

.@jasonfried doesn't run targets.⁣ ⁣ "A target shouldn't make me do better work. I should do better work because of the pride I take in the work."⁣ ⁣ "The money is the byproduct of making something good. It's not the reason to do it."

@michael_chomsky I have one I can sell you

I’m buying 5-10 mac minis. Preferably new/like new!! Can pick them up in person in SF as well if needed.

@iamshaanarora Get the bag young fella.

This feels surreal to say. Alia has officially been acquired by Dotdigital. There were a lot of nights I pictured writing this post. [more emotional parts below, but I need to first talk to our customers and partners before anything else] NOTHING will change for our partners and customers. We're not asking anyone to move their ESPs to keep working with Alia. If you have Slack channels with us, those channels will remain and you'll still keep your current CSMs with us. Our same commitment to customer support and customer success for our customers and partners will still be there in full force. We're not done building Alia by any means. Our team and product are staying intact. And we're excited to build and move quickly as we've always done, but now with the resources of a much larger company. - I want to first express gratitude to my co-founding team. Cory, Bill, and Jake have challenged me every single second of this journey and I appreciate it more than they'll ever know. I try to read more and listen to more podcasts so that I can understand what they're saying when they're chatting to eachother at work. I'm forever indebted to them, and I'm excited to keep building with them for a very long time. I'm extremely grateful for the broader Alia team as well. I know that we ask a lot and that we're not the most typical company in many respects, but I'm damn proud of you all and your commitment to the company. I'm very grateful to my family for the unwavering support and all the thoughts and prayers they've been sending since we started this whole thing four years ago. When I asked my parents if I could live with them after college and work full-time on my crazy idea that had no funding or revenue, they didn't hesitate for a second. Living at home with them when our company had no money gave me the chance to ground myself and work as hard as humanly possible. My parents have supported me and given me space when I needed it, and I appreciate them dealing with me when my mood swings based on the revenue growth of the company on a week-to-week basis. I also want to thank my friends for supporting us and caring. I know we can act crazy sometimes about this company and I appreciate you bearing with us. Thank you to Dotdigital for trusting us and our mission. We’re just getting started, and we’re thrilled to build the future side by side. Cory and I first started building Alia four years ago when we were 20 years old, both interns at a bank. Being able to celebrate this with the same person who I've been with since the start is a feeling I can't put into words. Oh, and by the way, we didn't take a dollar of outside funding to build Alia. As I'm holding back tears, I'll conclude with this: I've been posting almost every weekday since January 2024 on LinkedIn and Twitter. And, at least once a week since then, I've dreamt of writing this post and how it'd feel to write it. It feels better than I could've ever imagined.