Steven Tey

Today is the day – after 9 months of private beta, we're excited to launch Dub Partners to the world. Some stats: ✦ $9M+ affiliate revenue tracked to date ✦ $3M+ earned by 3K+ partners ✦ Used by top AI companies like @v0, @meetgranola, @firecrawl etc.

England 6-4 France One of the highest-scoring games in World Cup history ABSOLUTE CINEMA

@major101x fr?? 🤯

@steventey They extended it again😂

me: "fable 5 access ends tomorrow, ain't no way anthropic extends it again" anthropic:

@smakosh 💀

@steventey Chapter 11

Once we run out of letters in the alphabet, do we restart with AA like in Excel? Series AA Series AB Series AC …

@mfts0 🤣

@steventey Or they do Series Gen Z and Series Gen Alpha

@peer_rich 💀

series_z_final_FINAL_v99_final_this_time_use_this.pdf

@jamesperkins I’m too terminally online 🥲

@steventey Oh steven

@jamesperkins By “Ant” do you mean “Anthropic”? x.com/boson2photon/s…

@steventey Once you hit Z it turns into animals Series Ant Series Beaver etc

@denk_tweets @nabeelazeez @beehiiv “but happy to smoke whatever if you're willing to share” 🔥

I don't fully understand the complaint here re @beehiiv we have always been newsletter-centric, that's been our bread and butter from day 1 podcast and community have been the most requested features by users for years — we launched them to make it easier to manage your content business in a single place vs stitching together 6 platforms and having your data live in silos all of which are totally opt-in. you can choose to have your podcast and community live wherever you want. in fact, we're a totally open platform with APIs and webhooks, and encourage that I also strongly believe that platform lock-in is the least creator-friendly thing possible — we make it seamless to migrate your content, audience, and subscriptions elsewhere if you choose and there's been no talk at all about importing AI chat history (unsure where that came from) but happy to smoke whatever if you're willing to share

No, beehiiv, I will not be moving my website, my email list, my podcast, my ecomm store, my community and my AI chat history to your platform. No, Skool, I am not deleting my website, my email list, and my funnels and redirecting everything to my Skool about page. No, Substack, I'm not going to give you 10% of my income just because you built an Orange Medium-Twitter-Discord franken-app. What are these companies smoking?

@Jacobsklug @joshsuggss @mattepstein @_May_Ham @lukethorburg @jtsarafa @oliverbrocato @jakewilliammo Love to see it!!

The New York Post called us the "Media Mafia." We make $20M/yr collectively, all in our early 20s, living in NYC with zero outside capital raised. Here's what everyone misses about how we actually did it. Most people our age are pitching VCs and burning cash. We took the unsexy route and started agencies instead. Bootstrapped, profitable from month one. No board meetings, no dilution, just revenue every month. My friends started co-working out of a gym. That turned into one office in Manhattan, then two. The whole time, everyone kept saying agencies are boring and not scalable. That's exactly why they work. Startups take 7-10 years to exit if you're lucky. Agencies print cash from day one, so we're making millions in our 20s while most are still fundraising. The best part is AI just made the model 10x easier. You deliver faster, hire way less people, and scale without the overhead that used to kill agencies. If you want to get rich in your 20s, stop chasing unicorns and build an AI-native agency instead (link below).

@zenorocha @resend 🤯🚀

Resend just crossed 2x the downloads of SendGrid. SendGrid sold to Twilio for $3 billion. never underestimate a small team. x.com/zenorocha/stat…

@elvissun @lukemiler @dubdotco 🫶🥹 appreciate you guys! Let me know if you have any questions/feedback about @dubdotco, my DMs are always open!

@lukemiler @steventey @dubdotco i joined one using that, honestly pretty smooth. that's my #1 for now!

what's the best affiliate platform for saas in 2026? or should I roll my own?

@njpatel 💀

@steventey we once spent more $$$ on lawyers fixing up our GDPR docs for a customer than the deal itself was worth 🫠

> $50/mo customer: “can we jump on a call? we need X, Y, Z features to be able to use your product, oh also we need to run it by our procurement and the payment needs to be done via manual invoicing, no cards” > $5,000/mo customer: “money has been wired, should arrive by EoD”

@hookply 💀

@steventey the $50 ones also want a custom SLA and dedicated slack channel

@leerob @sophaller 💀

@sophaller When you see the data center that enabled you to post this tweet

so how do we save our farm land and stop all these dumb data centers?

@njpatel 😂😂 yes but with EU there will also be a bunch of GDPR-related questions/procurement steps too

@steventey just admit you're selling to EU

@aarondelasy 💀

@steventey $0/mo - your platform is too expensive for us, we will check your competitors 🤝

@ElTimuro 💯

@steventey 100% accurate 50k customer takes a bit more time and talks even less 😀