Ty Conner

@adnovaPraveen @admanageai Happy adnova customer here. Sorry youre having to deal with this

A UK-based competitor Admanage Limited (@admanageai ) created throwaway accounts and programmatically tried breaking into my bootstrapped company Adnova this week and they failed. We found the evidence that they connected their own corporate Meta ad account during the intrusion. And registered the throwaway accounts from domains tied to one of their founders via a Chrome Web Store extension. I reached out to the founders privately. They ignored me. Full thread with receipts 👇

@michaelmiraflor Also single digit growth doesn’t scream agentic transformation either 😬

@michaelmiraflor I don’t think agentic transformation when I think Liveramp

Oh woooooow…

@Seanfrank I grew Rocket Money’s influencer program to 8-fig. Now building Passo.co. Working with Arya.fyi for IG men now. DMs are open

I want to hire an influencer marketing agency to focus on men on instagram. We dont need help with UGC creators. We dont need help with youtube. We dont need help with tik tok shop. I want male focused mid sized accounts on insta. $50,000 test budget. Testing 3 agencies. Winner will get 7 figures in spend. who should I talk too?

@jordan_ross_8F OS

I fully reverse-engineered Ramp's internal AI operating system. Their system — called Glass — is how they got 99% of their entire company using AI every single day. 350+ reusable workflows. Every tool connected at first login. Memory that refreshes every 24 hours. Automations running while everyone sleeps. I partnered with my engineering team and we broke down every component inside it. Then we rebuilt the whole thing for marketing agencies. 76 pages. Every system. Every layer. Every step. Steal it. Comment "OS" and I'll send it directly. Must be a following to receive auto DM

@oliviaakory @Alan24_Cuevas Launch video will come when we’re full self driving

@tymonster3 @Alan24_Cuevas What’s with the coy bio change? We do big launch video announcements now

Quote of the week from a VP growth “I run our ads creative, not our brand team. And I build creative that gets me in trouble with my brand team. All of our winning ads get me in trouble. Then my brand team comes and says ‘we made an on brand version’ and I tell them that’s not the point.” 👏 👏👏👏👏

@oliviaakory @Alan24_Cuevas Tell Claude to work faster then I’ll be here

@tymonster3 @Alan24_Cuevas Need you more active here too Ty

@oliviaakory @Alan24_Cuevas Wazzzzzzup Alan 👋

@Alan24_Cuevas alan let's goooo. also we need you more active on here

@MitcheIl Launch

this hit 4m views and #1 on trending everyone will think it's bc the video was good it wasn't just the video it took: - an incredible product - 30 creators - 3 reshoots - our teams working 24/7 that's the part nobody sees reply "launch" and i'll send u every trick we used

@eric_seufert @jeiting + Truebill/Rocket Money

"Generational startups" that have reached $1BN+ valuations and which spend heavily on user acquisition: - Scopely (MONOPOLY GO!) - Temu - Shein - Kalshi - Polymarket - Noom - TikTok - DoorDash - Uber - Tubi - Duolingo - Booking.com - Strava - MyFitnessPal - DoorDash - Flo - Oura - DramaBox - Crunchyroll - DraftKings - ReelShort Maybe a more helpful exercise is to name the "Generational (Consumer) Startups" founded in the last 10 years that didn't rely materially on user acquisition for growth?

Olivia’s being blown up here but she’s mostly right but maybe misunderstood. “Generational startup” is a word thrown around a lot in VC land but generally means “billion dollar plus valuation and very durable”. I.e. the outcomes VCs generally look for, these are the bets that make funds work. These outcomes (Duolingo, Roblox, Netflix, Spotify), are extremely rare, and only ever get there because they have a core PMF so strong the market pulls them to scale. They will use ads to supplement their growth, but only as an accelerant to an already compounding product and brand. Usually driven by word of mouth, which is a side effect of PMF. Apps whose primary driver of growth is paid ads, can reach great outcomes and even considerable scale, but the dynamics of paid acquisition mean they are less durable, and less capital efficient. Not bad companies, but maybe relatively “bad” investments. They are just too easily disrupted without constant acquisition knife fights. So, just know the game you’re playing, have the right capital structure, and most paths can “work out” for some definition of “work out”.

@RioLongacre Unless it’s a geo-holdout control, advertisers shouldn’t trust those results

@tymonster3 Control was platform-native audiences available in DSP.

1/ WPP exec Lauren Wetzel raised thoughtful critiques of Omnicom’s Investor Day presentation—particularly around positioning Acxiom’s Real ID as a unified consumer view. But I think the conversation misses a few realities about how modern marketing actually works. A thread. 🧵

@RioLongacre How was the control determined?

3/ The results were meaningful: • 35% APV uplift vs control • 52% of sales from NTB shoppers via LALs • Seed audience outperformed platform-native targeting When you have high-quality first-party identity, it works extremely well.

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@martymadrid +500,319*

Just between these four specific X accounts, they have a collective +500,000 followers 🤯

Our @AgreeHQ SXSW guerrilla campaign had three objectives: (1) Do something in the hundreds that looks like it was done in the "thousands" and felt like it was "all over Austin". (2) Be funny and clever enough to provoke someone to stop, take a photo, and share it. (3) Complement the provocative with the value-prop to help build the brand. Success! 🦍💪

@michaelmiraflor Yep. Sent this to an internal slack to check out. The only other sxsw flyer I noticed was the lost reindeer ones

This is pretty good. Gets the attention of masses while catering directly to an iykyk ICP at SXSW. They must have posted thousands of these all over Austin.

This is the way

@oliviaakory 💪

Not many better feelings in B2B than being part of a team rallying to win a very big, very competitive deal. It’s electric - the closest thing to competitive sports.

@fin465 Outbound

I got tired of showing 100+ YC founders the outbound guide that i've watched take many from $0 -> $100k, $500k, even $1m ARR during the 3-month YC batch, so i'm providing it here for free: every YC batch, I talk to new founders about the best strategy to go from pre-product to top revenue of the batch in that 12-week period. Here's what I've seen work: 1. Don't bother with cold email. Cold email infra will take weeks to setup. If you're not an expert, it's not worth it. even if done properly, it's gotten impossible to compete with AI spam taking over inboxes. 2. Linkedin is a goldmine for outbound in 2026. There's no reason you shouldn't be sending 200 new linkedin connections every week to great fit prospects. If 50% accept your connection, you have 100 new potential customers to reach out to every week. You can easily setup an automated Linkedin Connector safely. Just upload your lead list and it will auto-connect. 3. Don't automate your message sending (wait, what?) if you build your lead list effectively, you will have a list of the few hundred HIGHEST value prospects to target (your top .1% buyers). These people are really important to you, and limited. Treat them well. Try to use linkedin 'casually' to start conversations with them in a more genuine way (more on this in the full guide). 4. Build that 'top .1% list' write out your exact dream customer profile, first at the company level. Then, person level. The more specific you can be about your dream customer, the better. The goal here is to create such a perfect customer, that if they heard about your solution they would have no choice but to say "tell me more". A few more miscellaneous tips: • do max volume connecting on all of your team-members accounts • an empty note for connection requests has the highest accept rates • don't use inMail. Connect first, then message • as you connect with more customers in your niche, you will gain more mutuals and your connect rate will increase over time This is just the beginning though if you actually want to execute this well. I wrote up a highly detailed guide going over each of these sections in more depth. completely step by step. Want the guide? Comment "outbound" and I'll dm you the entire guide that shows the exact process used by dozens of founders to scale from $0 -> $100k+ ARR in their first few months, that still works in 2026.

@oliviaakory @codyplof The actual 🐐

Nick Doren was one of the founding members of our customer success team. I met him here on dtc twitter and he is actually the one who suggested I demo Haus for @codyplof back in the day. Nick was so good at his job and with customers because he was quietly bootstrapping an e commerce business of his own and understood what it meant to be an operator. And now his business has grown so big that he’s leaving to pursue it full time. I’m so proud of him and cannot overstate how much he’s meant to Haus over the last few years. Thank you for being my partner on this crazy ride @nckdoren. Nick’s too humble for the podcasts and shopify screenshots so I’ll have to do the bragging for him. Operators titans - you’ve got your next guest!

@ChereneAubert Did your openclaw write this?

i'm coming to learn that people don't think i set up openclaw on my own. newsflash you guys i am actually a fully capable adult with a brain (unlike most of you)