@jermainebrown The team kept hearing about how impactful it was and wanted to give it a spin themselves.
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Joe Speiser ⚡️
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Joe Speiser ⚡️
@jspeiser
Built & scaled 3 startups to $70m+/yr in ad-tech, ecomm & digital media. Now Co-Founder, CEO @HamptonFounders
NY Katılım Şubat 2009
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Last week our team ran a mock version of the core product we run for members. Same format, same structure, same vulnerability required.
A bunch flew to NYC for it. A few of them build the product every day.
The feedback: "hard to put into words." "Life changing." "We should do this monthly across every depart."
These are the staff who see every piece of the curriculum, every moderator framework, every member rating. They know Hampton better than anyone.
And they were still blown away experiencing it from the inside.
Most companies never make their team sit in the customer's chair. They read NPS surveys. They watch dashboards. They analyze churn data.
That's not the same thing.
If your staff hasn't felt what your customers feel, you're building in the dark.
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First of all, the beauty of life is being able to control what groups you are in and how you show up to them
As a guy working on his third year in Hampton, I’ve never came to @thesamparr or @jspeiser with requests/feedback that wasn’t heard and given effort towards
Community has been life changing and have met some of my best friends on this planet through it
Ben Corkery@ecom_cork
I paid 10k to join Hampton and the community is super cool. But after the first in person meeting I decided it wasn’t for me. When you have rich people chatting about their problems and God is not a part of that discussion it gets weird.
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@jspeiser vulnerability hits different when you're actually vulnerable
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A founder in our community gave some honest feedback yesterday.
He said for the first few months, the experience was "just okay." Showed up to meetings, listened, but didn't really put himself out there.
Then something shifted. He started sharing real numbers. His P&L, his conflicts, actual problems. Not the twitter version.
He's made 3 close friends from his group now. New members reach out to him when they join. He hung out with one all day last Sunday.
His words: "it just keeps getting better."
The thing is, nothing about the product changed between month 2 and month 8. He did.
Most businesses front-load value. Best demo, best onboarding, wow you on day 1. Then it fades.
The best communities are the opposite. The value compounds. But only if you survive the first few months where you don't know anyone and it feels like maybe this isn't for you.
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jeremy is a machine, if anyone can figure out this space its him and his crew.
I know my agents are hungry for more tools, this is gonna be interesting.
Jeremy Yudkin@yudDIDit
Today, @editframe emerges from stealth. Agents need video. Editframe Agent Skills: npm create @editframe@latest Just prompt Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex and get a working video or a full interactive GUI. This video was created just by prompting 👇
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@jspeiser You're missing that Anthropic's Batch API already does this.
50% cheaper, 24-hour turnaround, same models.
The product exists. The demand exists. The reason it's not louder is that most developers still haven't found it.
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every AI company charges the same per token whether it's 2pm on a Tuesday or 3am on a Sunday.
their GPUs are not equally busy at both times.
electric companies started dynamic pricing 50 years ago. pay less at night, pay less on weekends, pay more during peak. Obvious no?
if Claude or GPT offered off-peak rates, every company would shift their batch jobs to nights / weekends overnight. literally.
the compute is sitting there. the capacity fluctuates. the pricing doesn't.
this feels like an obvious unlock that nobody's building yet.
am i missing something?
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I see it all the time, and have even got to know some people who lost a lot with exactly this, for example;
this one Guy was driving revenue to parked domains (not exactly allowed by the tos) nonetheless he was averaging 400k/month profit for a long time.... (thats even after it dropped some).
1 update from google wiped it...
Joe Speiser ⚡️@jspeiser
The most expensive lesson i ever learned cost me $100m in a single day. Built a media company to $65M in revenue in <3 years. 100 people. Then Facebook changed 1 algorithm and our traffic dropped 75% overnight. Crushed the company and me. That was 2018. i think about it every week. What scares me right now: i see the exact same pattern with AI. Founders building entire businesses on top of one API. One model provider. One distribution channel they don't control. OpenAI changes their pricing, your margins evaporate. Anthropic deprecates a model, your product breaks. Google decides to build your feature natively, game over. The tech changes. The playbook doesn't. Build on rented land and eventually the landlord renovates without asking you. Own your audience. Own your data. Own your distribution. Everything else is borrowed time.
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@FrankyBIGWheels If they did they didn’t communicate that very well. Never heard of lower pricing times or days.
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@jspeiser I thought they listed off peak boosts already, isn't that somewhat similar? Wouldn't this also be dependent on owning their servers vs renting them?
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@shawnrubel Be like apple or perplexity? Model agnostic. Treat it like a commodity where you can switch at will with no major consequences.
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The problem here is that it’s very expensive to train your own models and they’re all way ahead of everyone else just starting out because they have more data and more money to burn.
If you can build in a way to allow competing models, then market dynamics will add downward pricing pressure (hopefully). In your case, there was only one Facebook.
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The most expensive lesson i ever learned cost me $100m in a single day.
Built a media company to $65M in revenue in <3 years. 100 people. Then Facebook changed 1 algorithm and our traffic dropped 75% overnight. Crushed the company and me.
That was 2018. i think about it every week.
What scares me right now: i see the exact same pattern with AI.
Founders building entire businesses on top of one API. One model provider. One distribution channel they don't control.
OpenAI changes their pricing, your margins evaporate. Anthropic deprecates a model, your product breaks. Google decides to build your feature natively, game over.
The tech changes. The playbook doesn't.
Build on rented land and eventually the landlord renovates without asking you.
Own your audience. Own your data. Own your distribution. Everything else is borrowed time.
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In 10 days StreetTalk is moving into a new office in NYC
4 months ago we signed our first lease
We've already outgrown it
Hard to imagine 16 months ago I was walking around a park by myself
Screaming on this app that StreetTalks would be the next wave in advertising
This is what happens when you mix confidence and hard work
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@jspeiser So surprised when I hear publishers say "but I'm killing it with Google Discover!"
Own. Your. Audience. That's the bet I've made with sms.
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@arham_abidghl it's so so hard, but if you can pull it off you control your future, not an algo
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@jspeiser Powerful reminder. That’s exactly why I’m focused on building everything organically , owning the audience and distribution is the only real hedge.
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Hot take: the best time to sell your company is when you don't want to.
Every founder I know who sold at the peak says the same thing: "I wasn't looking. Someone came to me and the number was too good."
Every founder who sold because they were burned out says: "I left money on the table."
Buyers smell desperation. They also smell momentum.
If you're exhausted and thinking about selling, fix the exhaustion first. The exit will be way better.
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