Alex
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Alex
@realAlexDJ
building https://t.co/ngSRN3hdIj https://t.co/8e1FDsDBId https://t.co/n5VlTzyAKJ - tag along to learn from my mistakes
Michigan, USA Katılım Ağustos 2016
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$8,000,000 in 90 days.
14 months ago I quit my transport job with half my savings and got scammed out of $8k by someone who called themselves a mentor. Replied to me once or twice a week. Taught me almost nothing. That was literally half of everything I had after leaving full time work.
For months I was lost. Jumped between Discord servers full of people going nowhere. Started questioning if any of this was even worth it.
Then I came across Cam (@cjfeth) on X and joined Ecommerce Builders. Honestly didn't expect much. But it was the first time I was in a room where people actually wanted each other to win. I'd go on walks listening to recordings and ask questions.
I met my business partner in there. Same country. Same city. Didn't even know he existed before that. We pushed each other, learned together, and failed a lot together too.
By November I had burned through everything. Zero dollars. I was out there applying for jobs just to survive.
Got offered $110k. Highest salary of my life. My family was so proud. I was finally using my degree. On paper it made complete sense.
Two weeks in, our store started picking up.
I had to choose.
I quit the job.
Not because it was easy. It was the hardest decision I've ever made. But I knew a job would always be there. That opportunity window wouldn't.
We hit $1M in a week. $8M in 90 days.
The risk was always worth it. You just have to be far enough in to see it.
If you're in the early stages feeling completely lost, find your people. These are the guys i recommend following:
@itsliellevin
@DTCMidas
@cjfeth
@DTC_Quizbuilder
@dtcprophet
@adv_ceo
@jforjacob
@ceodotmika
@AbyssusErigo
@zakaria_airak
@spencepawliw
@shauneng
@karlocreates
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Uhhh is this the beginning of the inevitable breakup between Stripe and Shopify?
This is a big deal. It’s also a bunch of my predictions coming to life at once.
Here's what's happening:
Stripe is powering a native checkout inside Facebook ads. You see an ad, tap "Buy now," and purchase without ever leaving Facebook. Powered by Stripe's new Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP)*, an open standard built with OpenAI.
This is not the breakup. It's worse. It's Stripe building the layer that makes Shopify optional.
Here's the threat chain:
1. Checkout moves off the storefront.* If customers buy inside Meta ads via Stripe, they never visit the Shopify store. The store becomes a warehouse backend, not the point of sale.
2. Stripe becomes the merchant of record infrastructure.* ACP lets any AI agent (ChatGPT, Meta, whoever) trigger a purchase. The business keeps merchant of record status, but the commerce infrastructure is Stripe, not Shopify.
3. Shopify Payments IS Stripe under the hood. Shopify's payment processing is a white-labeled Stripe integration. Stripe going direct to Meta means they're routing around their own reseller. Why let Shopify clip the ticket when Stripe can own the relationship directly?
4. The "agentic" angle is the real play. ACP isn't just Meta. OpenAI is the first AI platform to implement it. This means ChatGPT, and eventually every AI assistant, can trigger purchases through Stripe without touching a storefront. That's a future where "browse a website and add to cart" becomes a legacy behavior.
For brands specifically
This changes the ad-to-purchase funnel fundamentally. If a Prophit Engineer is optimizing Meta ads and the purchase happens inside the ad unit via Stripe checkout, the attribution model changes, the role of the landing page changes, and creative becomes even MORE important because the ad IS the store.
Brands should be watching this closely. Short-term, nothing changes. Medium-term (12-18 months), the brands that figure out how to sell inside AI surfaces and ad units via ACP will have a structural advantage.
So is it the breakup? Not yet. But it's Stripe signaling that they don't need Shopify as the distribution layer anymore. Stripe + Meta + OpenAI is a commerce stack that doesn't require a storefront. Shopify's response will tell you everything: do they build their own ACP competitor, or do they lean into being "the backend" for agentic commerce?
John Collison@collision
Businesses can now sell directly within an ad or browsing session on Facebook, powered by the Agentic Commerce Protocol and @stripe stripe.com/newsroom/news/…
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@realAlexDJ Nice!!! I'm in Orlando right now but we should catch up next week?
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Update On Tiktok Slideshow Automation (7 Days of Data):
This is from 4 accounts testing full creation and distribution of slideshows - next phase is getting videos cracked for this & solidifying routing strategy (taking eyeballs to website and converting)
Also need to plug in the 16 other accounts and start getting them warmed up :P
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Absolutely no excuses on generating footage you need for your ads/organic, you can 100% recreate winning variables that look IDENTICAL to real shots using AI in 2026.
If you want my personal process RT + Comment "WORKFLOW" & my openclaw agent will send it to you lol.
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