Ivelin

and we’re just getting started

@Laraacostar on my way

who's canary wharf maxxing here

@pablo_rothbart I love slash

Slash paying my rent w this one

@SimonDezX ONLY UP

@waliet Higheeeer

in january 2025 i had $800 in my bank account by december my agency was clearing $50k/month from the same bedroom clarity on what to build + obsessive execution + not quitting when month 1 pays you $800 things happen slow at first, then all at once.

@joelimmmmm wow

Last week, I shut down my startup, Floodify. Before I get into it, thank you to everyone who followed the journey, believed in us, worked with us, invested in us, or trusted us with their music. We had a crazy run. What started as a thesis around frictionless organic distribution turned into working with all the major record labels, doing 50k+ posts per day at peak. We built across AI influencers, geo-targeting, sound linking, and large-scale distribution infrastructure. We scaled from 0 to 65k accounts, peaked at $1.5M ARR, and even got featured in Billboard. But over time, it became clear that the original Floodify model was too operationally heavy and too cash intensive for a small team. We put our heart and soul into it, but things ultimately did not work out. That said, the experience sharpened my conviction more than anything else. I still believe distribution is everything. If anything, this experience made me more interested in studying distribution from two angles. The first is through a consumer-facing app as a wedge to build a pure distribution layer — one that separates content creation from distribution itself and treats distribution as its own distinct system. The second is through a more forward-deployed, Palantir-esque model — where distribution may work better not as a one-size-fits-all product, but as something deeply embedded and tailored to each customer. I am still toying with that thesis. I do think something in this category will exist in the future. I just think I understand the problem much better now than I did before. To everyone who trusted Floodify with their music: thank you. And I am deeply sorry things had to end this way. I also made a Floodify offramp, completely free — software that lets you run Floodify from home using the same, if not better, underlying technology: offramp-five.vercel.app For now, I’m taking a short break and reflecting on everything. Thank you again to everyone who was part of the journey.

one of the most powerful skills you can have is being able to sound smarter than you actually are i know that sounds insane but it’s true and works in every meeting and dm you're being evaluated on how clearly you can articulate complex ideas in simple terms It’s basic communication the founders who raise money aren't always the smartest in the room, but the ones who can explain their vision in a way that makes you feel stupid for not seeing it sooner doors open fast when you talk well. and they close just as fast when people realize you can't back it up so learn to speak. then learn to deliver. in that order

startup twitter has convinced an entire generation of founders that picking up the phone is beneath them "product-led growth" "self-serve onboarding" "let the product sell itself" beautiful in theory meanwhile someone with no product and zero following just closed a $500k annual contract because he called the VP of ops at a fortune 500 and said "i can fix this" do more cold calls

@alexxgrowth hey habibi

the amount of ex-Fortnite players turned successful founders needs to be studied you sat inside for 18 hours straight playing ranked but you "can't lock in" for your business? the discipline to grind for 12 hours and still queue another game the pattern recognition to adapt mid-fight when everything's falling apart the tolerance for getting destroyed 40 times before hitting one clean win that transfers. all of it the competitive obsession. the ego. the "i refuse to lose to this kid" energy 90% of these dudes would easily clear $10k/mo within a few months if they redirected even half of that intensity idk maybe it's just me but i haven't met a single cracked fortnite kid who couldn't figure out business once they actually tried

@danvsI it's impossible to not make your first dollar on the internet

Content Rewards Education is live on Whop. What this means for anyone who makes content: -> You now have a clear path to making money -> Step by step, for free, no experience needed Clipping is the highest ROI skill online right now And anyone who can make good content should be able to get paid for it. Today, we make it easier to start. whop.com/contentrewards

There's a mass wealth transfer happening on social media right now and the people benefiting from it don't even show their faces or have any skill we break it all down inside this.

hot take: the next wave of $1m+ ARR companies won't have thousands of customers they'll have 5-10 massive contracts. deep integrations. relationships that compound. the "scale everything" era is ending because customer acquisition costs are through the roof and attention is fragmenting the founders who win the next 5 years will be the ones who figured out that depth beats breadth one client who pays $200k/year and stays for 5 years is worth more than 5,000 users who churn every 3 months and they're 1,000x less stressful to manage the entire saas industry optimized for volume because VCs needed big TAM numbers for their pitch decks

I loved club penguin growing up you can just bring things back

"clipping is dead"

kind of insane that a faceless tiktok account posting 15 second slideshows is outearning people with 4 year marketing degrees no audience. no product. no ads. no face on camera. $22k from making content most "creators" would call low effort the bar isn't where you think it is

@reyaffrev scamming, again? 😭

the worse part about making $12k a month at 17 with content rewards is having to explain to your parents how you making it and where the money is coming from

a 16-year-old made $45K in one week clipping content not selling a course. not dropshipping. not trading. clipping videos and submitting them to brand campaigns. and that with manual clipping imagine how much these dudes are about to make now 😂