Ryan Carr

@BlondB00 👋

if you catch yourself going down rabbit holes about - God - religiosity - philosophy-distilled-in-practice - nirvana-actualising - learning how to love thy neighbour - buddhist-infused metaphysics - how to fuse cutting rationalism with cosmos-attuned intuition - morale-undooming - peace-attaining amid existential cataclysm - liberation from sin - prejudice-transcending - how to love every waking moment of every waking day say hi.

@MikeWigmore This is tight!

Been chasing these new models and I forgot how good the vibes are with MidJourney! Thanks @ryan_boat for reminding me.

Psycho-Cybernetics, which I read based on a recc in a thread like this years ago. Unlocked the truth that you can simply program your subconscious to make achievement of your goals feel easier/more natural. The Bible. Grew up Protestant Christian, left the church in an edgy atheist teen phase, came to realize as an adult that (even though I am still very much not aligned with 'religion' in the way that it's commonly practiced in the modern church), a personal relationship with God/the universe/the higher power unlocks supernatural peace and strength. Daily reading of The Bible has helped me get closer. Still learning and seeking and figuring it out.

Psychoactive Books recommendation thread Post below Bonus points for why it changed your life

@Scott_Wiener Soulless

Multiple things can be true: Political violence is toxic & Kirk’s assassination must be condemned. Kirk was exceptionally talented & helped build a movement. That movement brainwashed many young men with bigoted, violent poison. Condemn his murder, but do not lionize him.

@holmisthename Playbook!

a newsletter client just hit $1M/month 90% of their growth came from our paid ads I created a step-by-step playbook on how we grew their newsletter to 150K qualified subscribers Want it? Comment "PLAYBOOK" and I'll DM it to you. (must be following to DM)

@Adam_Ha_Yes I wish we had this five years ago 🥲

This is one of my favorite products we've built. When at The Hustle I would do our influencer outreach. It took hours to DM people and it was tedious work. This is the product I wish I had then. Try it out and let me know what you think.

@nicochristie Would love a code!

Introducing Shortcut — the first superhuman Excel agent. Shortcut one-shots most knowledge work tasks on Excel. It even scores >80% on Excel World Championship Cases in ~10 minutes. That's 10x faster than humans. Our early preview is live. Just comment for an invite code.

@holmisthename Newsletter

just broke down the exact funnel we’re using to spend $165K/month on Meta ads to turn cold traffic into high-ticket ($20K) clients like + comment “NEWSLETTER” and l’ll DM you the full blueprint (must be following)

@0xAndros grow!

Introducing Growth Terminal. Your 10x content superpower for creating on X and LinkedIn. Say goodbye to AI slop. growthterminal.ai helps you: - Research topics - Find trending formats - Write with your voice (and your favorite creators') - Edit + schedule posts with a Cursor-like interface If you retweet this post and comment “grow” I’ll DM you a code for a month for free (must be following so we can message you)

This is my mom, Joanie Carr. She passed 11 days ago, at the young age of 60, after 8 months of battling cancer. She was the kindest, most selfless person I've ever known, and the world is better for having had her here for a brief time.

@AdamRy_n Been a while and would love to stop by! Let's talk shop.

For everyone flying into Austin for the Newsletter Marketing Summit, welcome. I thought this would be a good time to reintroduce myself. The first newsletter ad I sold was in 2014 at Spiceworks, a professional community for IT decision-makers. We raised $130M from Goldman, and by the time I left, I had the largest quota in the company, working exclusively with HP and selling them millions of dollars of newsletters. From there, I moved to MyFitnessPal after it was acquired by Under Armour. I worked across media campaigns, and newsletters were a big part of our food and recipe content. I got to collaborate with brands like Hormel, Wonderful, and ButcherBox. In 2016, I joined @TheHustle as the first sales hire and later became president. The next four years were a wild ride. We were the first sponsor of Portnoy’s Davey Day Trader for $100K. We gave away a Tesla to grow subscribers. We launched a nationwide event series for women entrepreneurs. I convinced Microsoft to give us a big check two months in. We built and scaled Trends, our community, and so much more. We also spent millions of dollars on growth despite raising a relatively small amount. A lot of lessons came from that time. After The Hustle, I wanted to learn from people I admired who were building in the space. I joined the board at @6AMCity with @ryanheafy and advised @payloadspace, @every, @MatthewBerryTMR and Fantasy Life, @section_school with Scott Galloway, @DoStuffMedia, @tpinsights, and others. Since 2021, I’ve been building @workweekinc with @becsherm. We focus on creator-led brands, using newsletters and podcasts as the top of the funnel and then launching vertical professional networks. The goal is to build something more authentic, relevant, and useful to industry operators. Think LinkedIn, but only for HR execs or Ecom leaders. Newsletters have weirdly become the thing I think about more than almost anything else. And speaking of weird, I’ve done it all while staying in Austin, which has been home through every chapter of my career. I couldn’t commit to the event itself because my wife is about to have our second child at any moment, but I’d still love to see some of you while you’re in town. If you’re around, I’d love to have 10 to 15 people over at my office for lunch. We can talk shop, swap stories, and get into the nitty-gritty of newsletters. Reply with “let’s talk shop” and I’ll send you an invite. Enjoy Austin, grab some breakfast tacos, and remember the best content always wins.

@MarketingMax Congrats dude! 💙

✅ 🥹 Dad Gang membership activated

@WouterTeunissen Love this, dude - excited to follow along!

Is this the most unhinged way to launch a podcast? Over the past 3 months I’ve written 100,000+ words, spent hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars to create 4 beautiful magazines. Through my research, I uncovered some insane secrets to building a successful business I present to you: - The Business of Ramp - The Business of Business Podcasting - The Business of beehiiv - The Business of Blockworks When I said I wanted to launch a podcast. People told me: “Just DM your ideal guests... or ask for an intro” and I thought…. No. That is not what I’m going to do. That is lame. @FoundersPodcast has a beautiful quote where he told @zachpogrob that he should: “Write down the 5 things most people would do in your situation. Ignore them all and do something more creative and unique.” And so that is what I've done. I’ve written 4 magazines with countless quotes and graphics to earn the right to ask for an interview with these people. In my research, I knew I was doing the right thing because that’s exactly what @patrick_oshag did in the early days of his podcast. He initially wrote multiple page memo’s to his guests on why they should do a podcast with him. Well, this is my public version of those memos. I am launching a podcast called ‘Founder BluePrint”, I want to have detailed, specific conversations were founders share their stories of how they got to where they are right now. I am a 22 year old living in a small town. I can’t relate to donating billions or crushing my competition with smart million dollar initiatives. But what I can relate to, are the human elements in the story of these founders. The trials, the strategy and the methods to overcome adversity. Because adversity is simply an opportunity in work clothes. And for that reason, I:

After running my first newsletter then working with hundreds of others while at SparkLoop, I understood the value of newsletters. When I launched @optaio, I knew I wanted to create one. Most of our early customers have come from cold outreach and referrals, but I’ve been working to fire up our marketing engine. I recently revamped our welcome sequence and post signup flow before turning on paid Facebook ads at a pretty low clip. In the first two weeks, 4 demos booked, 10 people interested in demos (but no closed customers yet). Cold email has been my bread and butter for years, but generating inbound is starting to convert better and with less effort. If you’re in the newsletter world, it’s easy to feel like the space is saturated (it is, to some extent) and that newsletters aren’t effective. Couldn’t be more wrong when done correctly. I was worried I was a hammer looking for nails when we launched Opta’s, but early results indicate it could strengthen our pipeline pretty drastically.

Today, I’m excited to announce: Newsletter Marketing Summit Our inaugural conference for founders, creators, and marketers building the future of media and education. We already have an amazing roster of speakers, including: ✅ Alex Lieberman, co-founder of Morning Brew and StoryArb ✅ Sam Parr, co-founder of Hampton and founder of The Hustle ✅ James Altucher, bestselling author, entrepreneur, and investor ✅ Jay Clouse, founder of Creator Science ✅ Chenell Basilio, founder of Growth In Reverse ✅ Tim Huelskamp, co-founder and CEO of 1440 Media ✅ Jenny Rothenberg, co-founder of Smooth Media ✅ Yossi J Levi, founder of Car Dealership Guy ✅ Ryan Heafy, co-founder and COO of 6 AM City ✅ Helen Guo, founder of SMB Deal Hunter ✅ Andy Mackensen and Joanna Ericta, founders of The Assist ✅ Brad Wolverton, director of content at HubSpot and The Hustle ✅ Ryan Hashemi, former CSO at Jubilee Media and founder of Snowball ✅ Neville Medhora, founder of CopywritingCourse .com & SwipeFile .com ✅ Brian Morrissey, founder of The Rebooting and former President at Digiday ✅ And more (see website below for all speakers)... Plus, there are more on the way! At this event, we’re bringing the world’s largest newsletter publishers AND newsletter advertisers in one place… …to network, do business, and learn together. This is your opportunity to: ☑️ Meet the biggest newsletter advertisers We designed this event not just for publishers but for marketers who want to sponsor and partner with brands and creators. ☑️ Connect with “who's who" in the industry Network with the newsletters, brands, and creators shaping the future of independent media. ☑️ Learn what’s working right now Discover cutting-edge growth and monetization tactics used by top founders and marketers that you can immediately apply to your business. We designed Newsletter Marketing Summit to be different from other events: ✅ Insightful and original content, not just panels From presentations, workshops, Q&As, and interactive content. The content experience is worth 10X the price of admission. ✅ Dedicated and structured networking The most important part of an event is the connections you make. This is the perfect environment to meet with peers and partners. Our networking time isn’t just the breaks between content. It’s so much more. ✅ Not just a “newsletter” event This event is about building and monetizing owned audiences – not just newsletters. We’ll cover: Digital product marketing, YouTube, podcast, and social growth, email marketing, deliverability, sponsorship sales, B2B media, local media, and so much more. Here are the details: - Feb 27th & 28th, 2025 - Life Austin Event Center, Austin, TX The event is limited to 300 people with 50 VIP tickets. VIP tickets include access to a VIP and speaker dinner, exclusive content, event recordings, and more perks. Tap below to learn more and secure your seat at the lowest price ever!👇

One thing X is great for: Book reccs. Some of the best books I've read in the last year were recommendations from people I've never met or talked to. Just popped up on my For You and changed the way I see the world forever.

Want to re-engage your dormant email list with a newsletter? Start small and be ruthless about list hygiene. 1. Start with only recent openers/clickers 2. Add more subscribers in small weekly cohorts 3. Remove anyone who doesn't open 4-5 newsletters

@holmisthename Come to SF!

Every time I do a call with an American, I want to move to the US The level of entrepreneurship is just at a completely different level compared to EU

Agency owners can create 4 weeks of newsletter content in ~15 min. Pick a few questions from last week's client calls, and record yourself answering them naturally – just like you're talking to a friend. Transcribe them, edit them, and schedule. High-value content - FAST.

ANNOUNCEMENT: Today, we’re launching the GrowLetter Ad Network: A commission-only ad sales service for newsletter publishers AND done-for-you ad buying services for marketers. Over 90% of newsletters lose money because they have unsold ad inventory. Why? Selling ads is hard. Publishers need to: - Reach out to hundreds of prospects monthly. - Grow your list, create content, and do all the other stuff in your business. - Make ad creative, manage campaigns, send IOs, share reports, collect payments, and work to upsell advertisers on bigger packages. Even if you do all that well, 90%+ of publishers still have unsold ads! And the marketer's job buying newsletter ads isn’t easy either. Newsletter ad buying is broken for marketers. They need to: - Find and vet the best newsletters to buy in. - Negotiate, make creative, optimize landing pages, send payment, and track down ad reports across multiple publishers. - Do this across dozens of newsletters to scale. This can amount to the work of a full time job. Most marketers are just too busy to grow with newsletters effectively! The sad part is... The best marketers know newsletters are a massively underrated growth channel — if used correctly. What makes this even worse is the bad actors out there: - Newsletter publishers that lie about their numbers and grow their email lists with low-quality (or fake) subscribers using shady growth hacks. And, - Marketers who stiff publishers on payment and try to advertise sketchy offers. Of course, there are hundreds of high-quality newsletters and ethical marketers. But buying and selling ads in this environment is hard. We’re changing this. We created the GrowLetter Ad Network to connect vetted publishers and advertisers so both parties can win. Here’s how the GrowLetter Ad Network works (for publishers): - There’s no cost unless we bring you an advertiser you’re not currently working with - We handle billing, ad creative (with your input), tracking links, and reporting - We help advertisers optimize their landing pages and offer - No exclusivity — work with any seller or ad network - We only sell flat fee sponsorships — no CPC - We use your ad pricing and never mark up - Almost no time required from publishers For marketers, GrowLetter makes it easy to: - Buy targeted ads across dozens of high-quality and vetted email newsletters. - Scale your newsletter ads without the hassle of managing campaigns, negotiations, ad creative, reporting, and payments across multiple publishers. We vet every newsletter by analyzing their email data to determine audience quality, ICP match, engagement, and ad results so you can confidently buy ads that drive ROAS. At GrowLetter, we know how to find the best publishers in the world. I’ve worked with the largest and fastest-growing newsletter-first media companies and creators over the past 5 years. (Clients include: The Hustle, 1440, James Clear, Codie Sanchez, Sahil Bloom, Milk Road, Chartr, The Daily Upside, The Rundown, WorkWeek, and many more.) We have more newsletter data than almost anyone. This allows us to help Marketers: - Manage your ENTIRE newsletter advertising campaigns from A to Z – while increasing your ROAS and saving you time. - Buy across many niches, small newsletters with 10k-50k subscribers that most Marketers don’t have time to handle. - Buy exclusive inventory in hard-to-reach newsletters with big, engaged audiences. Sound interesting? Here’s how to get started: - Newsletter operators, apply for us to sell your ads using the link below. - Newsletter advertisers, use that same link to get in touch and talk with me about improving your ROAS and saving time. If you have questions about this, reply below! P.S. We’re specializing in B2B, business, and financial publishers and advertisers right now. If that’s you, get in touch. If not, we can still help! We’ll just have fewer ads for you now. Use the link to get started below.👇