Sam Emara

January investor update: Jamie Foxx followed us on Instagram. The end.

Foxy was selected for the Consumer AI Accelerator by TRMNL4 and Inworld AI 🎉 It's a STACKED cohort of founders and operators from Character AI, Flo, Lovable, Pinterest and more - backed by some of the world’s top consumer investors like Menlo, Maveron, Khosla, and Lightspeed. (and of course, I managed to blink at the wrong time for the pic) LFG 🚀

Tattoo this to your brain: "The world is a malleable place. If you know what you want, and you go for it with maximum energy and passion, the world will often reconfigure itself around you much more quickly and easily than you would think.” – Marc Andreessen

@FedotOff90 GEM

This NEW Facebook ads update is MASSIVE! Bigger than Andromeda — and that update already cooked CPMs. It’s the new “buyer prediction brain.” I created a full guide to help you adapt Like this post and Comment "GEM" below and I’ll send it over

@lottsnomad LFG 🚀

we’re building payroll for the modern workforce & we're raising in SF > gusto built payroll for employees ($9b) > deel built payroll for contractors ($17b) no one has built payroll for performance we’re doing that. starting with pay-per-view - companies want to pay for results, not retainers. YouTube alone has paid out $100B+ based on video performance Successful apps like Cal AI & Quittr are running $500k+ monthly ugc campaigns but its impossible to: > calculate views across platforms > pay people anywhere in the world > stay compliant with taxes and reporting so we fixed it. our platform makes it easy to pay anyone, anywhere, for performance. > ⁠one dashboard > ⁠instant global payouts > ⁠automated compliance no spreadsheets, no stress. - i’ve spent the last few years building, scaling and exiting apps that reached millions of users. i paid hundreds of contractors and creators on a CPM or performance basis. it always felt broken. every week was a mess of spreadsheets, invoices, and late-night Slack messages asking... “how much do we owe Emily this week?” that’s when I realized, the system we needed didn’t exist. so we built it. we started hosting the biggest consumer app events in SF (1000+ people came to my home) on the surface it looked like community building in reality it was market research we wanted to see if others felt the same pain we did they did. it was so painful that when we raised our angel round, a customer invested mid convo (crazy) today we’re launching with $500k in monthly payroll ready to go and another $1.5m in pipeline how? > i run a community of 400+ app founders, scaling through performance based ugc marketing > i've helped marketing agencies close down new clients doing performance based organics > i am the distribution. this isn’t theory it’s real, and it’s live today here’s how we see it: the future of payroll isn’t hourly. it’s not monthly. it’s performance based. You deliver results, you get paid. Simple as that. > Gusto built payroll for jobs. > Deel built payroll for work. > We built payroll for performance. if you're in SF and back early stage founders, i want to meet you

Plot twist: Andy's just taking a page out of the @cluely playbook and is actually a marketing genius

One of the coolest parts of my work is collaborating with insanely talented creators - and helping bring their ideas to life. This week, that work landed on the cover of @Grazia Huge thanks to Nathan for the vision - and massive credit to our team for the content. These shots are 100% AI-generated, with zero editing - and this is one of the first AI fashion magazine covers in the world. Anyone betting against real creators is going to lose. AI isn’t replacing them, it’s giving them superpowers 🦄

🎉 We just crossed $1M in ARR - in under 120 days. I’m extremely proud and grateful to be building alongside such an epic team. The intensity, focus, and momentum we have is incredible. Watch. This. Space. 🚀

Tomorrow, skip the hacks. Wake up, drink coffee, do the work. That's how you build something real. That's the billion-dollar secret weapon. It's free. It's boring. And it works.

"The magic you are looking for is in the work you're avoiding." Embrace extraordinary discomfort. Work when you don't feel like it. Build when you're not inspired.