Will Weisman

I got a DM from a CEO yesterday who charges customers $5,000 for onboarding. Not as a fee.. but as a deposit. If the customer (ICP is SMB $1-5M in revenue) completes onboarding within 35 days, they get every dollar back. If they don't, the company keeps it and uses it to fund a dedicated onboarding specialist to finish the job for them. (don't worry they call the onboarding specialist a forward deployed engineer) It sounded a bit crazy at first, but the results are pretty interesting. Before the deposit, their average onboarding took 67 days with 10% churn during the process. After, it dropped to 31 days, and 3.5% churn. The deposit didn't just speed things up..... it filtered for customers who were serious about implementing, which is a leading indicator of long-term retention. This year so far, 98% of customers have completed onboarding within a 30 days. Is anyone else doing something like this with setup fees for onboarding?

I’ve predicted 2026 for a while now

I have a chuckle at the hubris of the “permanent underclass” warnings. The younger and more intelligent you are, the more likely you will use an LLM. But that LLM will, with thermodynamic certainty, drive you more and more to the 50th percentile. You wont even notice it. Worse, you will permanently **and irreversibly** lose the capacity to notice. You’ll just become more and more reliant on trading depth for speed. And then you’ll be hollowed out. Your capacity for anything irreducible and ineffable — gone. All while you mocked the “idiots” not joining the bandwagon. XRisk isn’t the terminator; it’s the annihilation of the right tail of human intelligence. And all our alignment efforts have had the exact opposite intended effect

This is insane.. Bernstein predicts that copper shortage will start in 2027 and progressively deepen by 2050. Demand will explode but supply will be limited as the operating mines are being depleted and getting permits for new ones is very hard. Copper supercycle is coming.

Today, we’re launching Airpost. I’m 46. That’s not a cool age to found a startup. At least according to Twitter. I still call it Twitter. I’ve loved advertising all my life. Since I was 19 and my mom told me about a movie called “Nothing in Common” with Tom Hanks where he plays an ad exec whose main job seems to be shooting hoops with his creative partner. That sounded fun. Since then, traditional advertising has stayed… traditional. From my 1st job out of college writing TV ads for Snapple and Fox Sports, to leading product marketing at Airbnb, I’ve seen a lot. Now the AI era is here and an entire $1T industry is about to change. Who will change it? Why not me? Why not us? Introducing Airpost: a platform and service where world-class creative strategists use custom-built AI to build video ads. Fast. If you’ve ever sat down to make an ad with AI and realized 20 minutes later you’re still wrestling with that same clip… that’s why we built Airpost. Growth teams are busy. They’re asked to do too many things as it is. They shouldn’t have to be AI experts as well. Creative strategists shouldn’t have to stare at a white box trying to decide what to prompt. They should have a partner. That’s what we aspire to be. And that’s what we’ve built our tech to do. AI ads shouldn’t have to mean only AI footage. We have an exclusive library of over 300,000 video clips we’ve shot ourselves. Our engine uses these, along with client footage and AI footage to make the ads we deliver each week. We’re funded by the best investors and humans we know. We bootstrapped our performance creative agency, Ready Set, to 200 people. I was always told VCs didn’t add value. If that’s true, it must be other VCs, because ours have been awesome. Thank you Zach Perret, Nate Abbott, Peter Hebert, Max Mullen and all of the firms and folks who’ve believed in us so far. We’ve gone from 0 to $1M ARR in the six months since we quietly started working with early clients like DoorDash, Dr. Squatch, Calm and more. So far, every customer has renewed. To celebrate the launch, we’re giving away a superagent where you: 1) Put in your product URL 2) Get snippets of what your real users are saying on Meta, TikTok, Reddit and X 3) Paste them into ad scripts Comment “Airpost” and I’ll DM you the private link. It feels (a little scary but) good to be out there. Here we go! 🚀

🚨MUST WATCH: Scott Galloway explains in an interview with MSNBC: “Jews are not allowed to win.... different standards were invented for them.”

Oh fuck! What did they laugh about????? This is outrageous!!!! They laughed at the fact that there are so many slaughtered Palestinian babies that people can see on social media every day.