Chris Richmond

@MediaKing I thought you previously said to focus on 30day openers and 60day clickers. Have you found any value in keeping emails that haven’t engaged in 60 days? Should we be keeping them vs auto unsubscribing them?

Honestly. I have no idea what my list size actually is. 17M records in DB. 6M “active” subs. 3M 90-Day Openers 2M 30-Day Openers Fewer 30-Day Clickers. We need a standard…

@MediaKing What is an example of all your offers? Are these affiliate type deals you are sending to your email list?

Acquisition strategy should match how many ways you monetize. One product → tight targeting, must break even fast. Many products → broad net, patient with CAC, worth more over time. We have 200+ offers. We can wait. Most publishers can't. That's not a bug — it's the model.

We just surpassed 16,000 paying subscribers at Snopes and most people have joined in the last 6 months! Relying on ad revenue from viral traffic is a very difficult game. I’m so glad to see our community is stepping up to support us so we can focus on fact checking. mail.snopes.com/p/new-post-7191

@miqchris @MediaKing @danielcberk Added to queue!

@MediaKing @itcdr @danielcberk See @itcdr I told you 😀

Podcast tour is over (almost). Consulting calls are wrapped up. Private jet is at the shop for repairs. Watch collection is in the safe. Back to figuring out how to grow MarketBeat from 50m/year to 75m/year.

@MediaKing @danielcberk Which podcast have you done that you most recommend people listen to who are trying to learn email?

I am recording my final podcast of 2026 on Tuesday with @danielcberk for a secret project. I’ve taught everything I’ve learned about email on podcasts. Now I need to go back to learning, so I have something interesting to say on the 2027 tour.

@RoKhanna Why not instead create higher tax brackets for capital gains? The reason people can say a billionaire is paying a lower tax rate than say a doctor is because the billionaire’s income is mostly capital gains. If we had higher tax brackets for say $10M+ on capital gains then you

Peter Thiel is leaving California if we pass a 1% tax on billionaires for 5 years to pay for healthcare for the working class facing steep Medicaid cuts. I echo what FDR said with sarcasm of economic royalists when they threatened to leave, "I will miss them very much."

Ah. My guess then is that he got a huge employement contract from HubSpot for the transition of his business and to appear on MFM long term which probably included stock or options that has grown over the years. Assuming the number came from somewhere and isn't just made up. If so, an obvious exaggeratin to credit it all back to what he sold that many years ago versus saying his sale led him to that. I don't count the salary I had during my earn out when I sold but in fairness it was small compared to the earn out itself. Hopefully Matt will clear it up publicly as I do love his show.

@itcdr It’s my understanding the earnout would have to be listed here. However if he has retention or employment compensation (ie a bonus, equity etc) then this wouldn’t be listed on the 10k as a part of the acquisition.

Founder says $40m+. SEC filing lists $17.2M cash. No reference to equity or other consideration I could find. 🤔

@JesseTinsley 100%. I want to see a stock market focused on long term results and accessible to much smaller companies. Companies wait way too long to go public these days so we all miss out. I was hoping ICO’s could be the answer but I’ve seen it primarily used for scams. We need some

Stocks might be in free fall today… But private market valuations haven’t changed. Maybe it’s time we built a system focused on long term outcomes not short term panic.

I think it’s the right call to merge them. I just don’t see how it’s adding that much value. If I invested in the original twitter take private deal I would have questioned why xAI was separate when it seemed like it only worked with twitter’s data and users. And now that it’s merged the original investors in the twitter deal have a smaller percentage of the combined project. But I do I think twitter combined with AI is a powerful combo and could be a win eventually for them.

@itcdr Love him or hate him I guarantee this is a win. The math just maths when you add ~$60B in enterprise value don't care how you spin the variables lol.

X just sold to xAI for $33B. But the real price? ~$13B. Here’s why: X owned 25% of xAI, valued at $80B. That’s $20B. Subtract it from $33B, and xAI effectively paid ~$13B for X. Elon bought Twitter for $44B lost ~70% of its value in years, then flipped it using its platform + data into a combined value likely nearing $100B today. Even when he loses, he wins BIG. Lesson: Never bet against Elon 😂

@wyatt_prichard @snopes Hmm. Good question

@snopes How do we know you’re not the hacker?

Snopes’ X account was hacked. We are back after 6 weeks of being locked out and it was not easy to get it back. Here is what happened (from Snopes CEO) Thread

This was such a pain to get our account back

I tried the management route and then read a dozen books and did all the research to manage myself. In the end the answer for me was VOO for long term and SUTXX (t-bill fund, 1-day liquidity) for short term to be ready when opportunities come up. Then I go for investments that I’m consumed by (my personal rule is not to but an individual stock unless I listen to shareholder meetings and have a solid thesis to at least double, otherwise best to stick with VOO)

The amount of wealth management people that have approached me since selling my company is WILD...apparently EVERYONE has the secret to portfolio maximization 🫨

I like Beehiiv because it’s fully focused on newsletters. Compared to MailChimp that felt more focused on e-commerce emails that also supports newsletters. And they have great analytics compared to Letterhead which we always felt in the dark using. And their customer service is excellent. We never finished our migration to CampaignMonitor due to lack of help. In the end @beehiiv was the winner after trying a few other platforms and we have ramped our focus on newsletter considerably now that we have a good platform.

@itcdr What do you like about the platform?

Newsletter people: What platform should I use and why? Beehiive vs Ghost vs ConvertKit vs all the other stuff So many platforms and they all seem exactly the same

1/7 🧵 Today, we explore Factbot by Snopes, a dedicated AI tool designed for fact-checking! Let's see how effectively it validates claims. #Factbot #AIart

FoxNews just wrote about what I said on MSNBC. A fair article minus referring to Snopes as “left-leaning”. But I understand given Snopes’ past under the old ownership/management. It will take more time to prove we are impartial which I believe we have been over the last year.

@jakeanquetil @VelshiMSNBC Already done. 20 years of coding

Here is the full segment from my appearance on @VelshiMSNBC this morning msnbc.com/ali-velshi/wat…