Jared Holstad ☃️

@OisinO @damccormick13 Reminds me a lot of the ADA suits that were super popular a few years back

These shakedown lawsuits are the bane of the d2c space. I see every week merchants targeted in shakedowns most pay for they see no other choice. Took bravery for @damccormick13 and the Create team to standup to them.

@MehtabKarta it’s a community

Why do people have bowtied in their username? What does it mean?

@Seanfrank @mattlady what do you want them to do? a few I can recommend, some specialize more in paid posting w/ usage rights, other more performance based (affiliate)

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?

A great email debate took place today at @CommerceRound My takeaway was AG1 has incredible emails and the agency that works with them is incredible at retention.

@GustavWalsted the real community is the friends you make along the way

Best eCom community out there?

@Seanfrank Austin is the future

Austin is on a 50 year path to be the most important American city. It is painful for homeowners when housing prices fall. But it is a blessing to EVERYONE ELSE I left Austin last year. Family stuff. Im probably back before the end of the decade.

@JoshJDurham @Seanfrank its become worse, but still leaps and bounds ahead of any west/east coast city

@Seanfrank downtown Austin felt like zombie land last night with the homeless guys everything else has been great

@ZohaibRattu I will purely as an experiment. I have so many questions hahahaha

would u buy meat from temu?

@codyplof Have to imagine they’ll connect into cowork/code before too long

Initial Claude Design thoughts: 1. First thing it asks for is a design system. I uploaded ours from GitHub. Woukd be curious to see how it builds them from scratch/ websites 2. Love that you can make decks 3. You can first wireframe and the turn it into high fidelity assets 4. Animated videos are pretty good 5. Biggest weakness is you can’t use your Claude code or cowork skills. Really hope we can in the future. For now I’ll try to plan/ brief in Claude code using skills and then copy over to design.

@wesbwilliams @hazan0608 A shocking amount of people do this

@hazan0608 is anyone doing this?

I struggle to see the value in paying someone $500 to $1,000 if they aren't going to produce any meaningful views for you

@jordantwestecom @RefunnelApp @ZohaibRattu Felt that

@RefunnelApp @DTC_Jared @ZohaibRattu too tall - I'm insecire about it obvs

Always great to see the man @ZohaibRattu IRL!! The TikTok shop summit was unreal! I truly think our cross platform success with TikTok shop at the centre is powered massively by @RefunnelApp - so glad they are in the ecosystem 🙌🏻

@MichaelDBrandt This

What was the point of buying a shoe company to do this

@jakublasocha Yea

Claude down for anyone else?

Allbirds this morning

@seempaq chat is this a bubble

@DTC_Jared Shoulda bought it early bro

Allbirds? The AI compute infrastructure company?

@drewfallon12 Im glad to see everyone else is as confused as I am. All time pivot

ALLBIRDS REBRANDS TO NEWBIRD AI TO PURSUE AI INFRASTRUCTURE MARKET No this isn’t a joke. About two weeks ago, Allbirds officially ended its run as a footwear independent by selling its brand and assets to American Exchange Group in a $39m asset sale. Today, the company is announcing a $50M convertible financing facility to pivot its business model toward AI compute infrastructure. The company will change its name to NewBird AI, with a strategic focus on becoming a fully integrated GPU as a Service (GPUaaS) and AI native cloud solutions provider. Initial capital from the new facility will be used to acquire high performance GPU assets to meet the surging demand for dedicated AI compute capacity. if the market crashes and you didn’t sell your stocks, you will look back at this exact moment

This has been the most fascinating thing to watch unfold

@Cody_Wittick Congratulations to you and your family! I hope everyone is happy and healthy ❤️

Life update: - We bought a house. - We had our second kid. - That child was delivered by yours truly. Please call me Dr. Wittick from now on. Over and out.