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@yojimmykim @BlakeImperl @LiamVeregin Here we go!

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@hpierrejacques @HarlemCapital @a16z Love this! @GingerBreadCap is who introduced us to you too 👏🏾👏🏾 so it sounds like I need to thank Megan too 😄

✍️ How a random LinkedIn DM changed everything for @HarlemCapital In December 2017 I got a random DM from a MBA student at Stanford that had a blog and she wanted to interview me That random person, Megan Holston, would go on to become a personal friend and Partner at @a16z I did the interview that month and a few months later she reached out again. She had interviewed someone else who she wanted me to connect with. That person ended up being Linnea Roberts of @GingerBreadCap After a few meetings, Gingerbread would go on to become our first $1M check and was what led to @jarridvtingle and myself stopping our recruiting processes at HBS and going all in on HCP That $1M gave us the conviction at a moment where we needed it. We had been raising for 5 months and only had $3M of our $25M target. It was the start of our 2nd year and we didn’t know if we would be able to do HCP full time. If the story stopped there it would be incredible, but it got 10x. Linnea would go on to introduce me to her longtime friend, Anilu, who had just joined as the CHRO at TPG. That meeting would lead to 6 months of conversation with almost every Partner at TPG and them becoming our anchor investor in Fund 1 and our long term partners. TPG’s anchor check was 20% of the fund target, but they would go on to introduce us to another 40% of the fund target, which helped us raise $40M instead of $25M So that random LinkdIn DM directly led to $15M, but in reality it led to conviction when we most needed it and us raising $40M I always tell Megan she helped raise Harlem Capital and I’m grateful for her The lessons for me are 1) You never know what will come of conversations so put yourself in as many situations as possible, within reason bc you can’t do it all 2) Life is random and there are inflections that can change your life 3) Check your DMs, doesn’t mean you have to reply to them

@SamMendelsohn4 @iamshackelford @gomalomo That's why I say that if you don't have a results oriented culture, people can take advantage of the structure. We run EOS to help keep everyone accountable to hitting goals and timelines to avoid this and it's worked extremely well eosworldwide.com Just my 2 cents!

@SamMendelsohn4 @iamshackelford @gomalomo The one downside is that you attract a lot of people during your hiring process that want a 4dww for all the wrong reasons. We try to screen those people out during interviews but sometimes people slip through.

Is anyone running a team on a 4 day work week? Any learnings to share?

@Aaronschwartz35 @ScottDorsey @INDairport @united Yes! We have no excuse now lol

@ScottDorsey @INDairport @united @YawA let’s do this

Big thanks to @INDairport team for partnering with our Indy tech community. Two new flights... SFO to IND non-stop leaving at 1:40pm replacing the current red-eye flight. Starting up October 29th. Thank you @united! IND to SLC non-stops back in action starting on March 10th. Good timing for spring ski season too. Thank you @Delta! Flights can be booked now. Great news for Indy!

For order tracking, use @gomalomo Narvar? AfterShip? Movie theater popcorn? They're all overpriced for no reason. Malomo is cost-effective, and the UX for the customer is beautiful. It integrates easily with Klaviyo/Postscript/etc. They'll even help you with the integration.

@Landofashh @AmorosoBrandon @EmilioDiMarco2 @BecauseApp @AliciaGaba @NoahRahimzadeh @gomalomo That was an absolute adventure. Can’t wait for the next one!!

@AmorosoBrandon @EmilioDiMarco2 @BecauseApp @AliciaGaba @YawA @NoahRahimzadeh @gomalomo Fave summer weekend yet 🔥🔥

@AmorosoBrandon just moved to #Miami and has already joined me in growing the local ecomm ecosystem😉 After just a month in town, he hosted a #DTC tour with @Landofashh of @BecauseApp + @AliciaGaba, @YawA, @NoahRahimzadeh from @gomalomo! Thank you Brandon, for organizing!

Huge news from @gomalomo - we just dropped 3 new offerings for Shopify merchants that make creating tracking experiences a breeze! Along with that, our new Shopify Theme App is mind blowing. Create a tracking page inside your theme in 10 minutes or less prnewswire.com/news-releases/…

@1800D2C @cgenevier @stuart_abc @JeremiahPrummer @johnerck @blairbeckwith @Ian_Laz 👀👀👀

Whole fam is here @cgenevier @stuart_abc @JeremiahPrummer @johnerck @blairbeckwith @Ian_Laz @YawA 💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛

@eliweisss @gomalomo We love you Eli!!

Ahhhhh @gomalomo y’all know the 🔑 to my heart 🥰🥰🥰 Thank you!!

@Aaronschwartz35 @missbeaux @klaviyo @attentivemobile @Shopify @KnoCommerce @TikTokBusiness @RevCascadeHQ @gomalomo Yea totally agree! Tracking + returns experiences have a HUGE impact on loyalty. @loopreturns is the leader on returns side hands down

@YawA @missbeaux @klaviyo @attentivemobile @Shopify @KnoCommerce @TikTokBusiness @RevCascadeHQ @gomalomo I keep seeing stacks without (1) tracking and (2) returns. Really great stacks in general, just curious why "post purchase" isn't included

My eComm brand stack: @klaviyo @attentivemobile @Shopify @KnoCommerce @TikTokBusiness @RevCascadeHQ What are the best subscription and loyalty apps to complement this stack?

@missbeaux @klaviyo @attentivemobile @Shopify @KnoCommerce @TikTokBusiness @RevCascadeHQ @gomalomo Oh very interesting! Would love to hear more. Happy to share some use cases we’ve seen for wholesale or see if you have some in mind that you think could be cool to test 😎

@YawA @klaviyo @attentivemobile @Shopify @KnoCommerce @TikTokBusiness @RevCascadeHQ @gomalomo Super interesting! This looks like it could be particularly helpful for the wholesale side of our business.

👀 Shopify merchants have been put on notice ✔️ Our latest @gomalomo integration with @attentivemobile is 🔥 We'll be sharing tons of best practices on post-purchase SMS flows at the webinar. Come prepared to take copious notes!

shopify brands can now take post-purchase shipping updates to the next level with attentive and @gomalomo. our new integration enables brands to send personalized SMS notifications with real-time carrier updates. join us on March 8th at 2pm ET to learn more! RSVP below 👇

@amyspurling @HarlemCapital Yea they are!! Much love HCP team

Anyone else have investors that host and support a lunch & learn about a 4 day work week? Yeah, mine are the best:) ❤️@harlemcapital

This week in the Visible Weekly we featured some awesome Company Culture content from @YawA Cofounder & CEO of @gomalomo, @theryanking Founder of @bolt, the team at @UnderscoreVC, and @dharmesh Co-Founder/CTO of @HubSpot. Check it out here: visible.vc/blog/this-week…