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I'll never understand doomer takes on ecommerce.
"I would never start a @Shopify store in {insert year}"
"You're not profitable until you hit X"
"You have to launch thousands of ads" (way too sweaty)
My favorite one is "The economy"
It's all so noisy and honestly such a bad vibe (sorry if you're a bad vibe)
My store is coming up on 2 years old and just passed $1m net.
And I'm not trying that hard. I'm paying attention to other things. This is everything that we're doing.
My VA sends email & sms with Shopify messaging
Nearly all my ad spend is on catalog ads
and I have 6 paid apps
@Marpipe_HQ by @danpantelo
@aftersell by @varunkundra
@KnoCommerce by @JeremiahPrummer
@VideoWiseHQ by @claudiucioba
@tapcart, I don't know who made tapcart.
and @AliaPopups by @iamshaanarora and @corylgill
What else... We just got @memelordtech by @iamjasonlevin for $20 a month and it's rad, so we're going to try launching meme ads and we're tracking our competitors with @foreplay_co
If you have an idea for a physical product that people might like, Shopify has made it pretty easy. Don't let the doomers stop you.
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"voice is going to enable way more parallelization" - @finnatsea on the future of voice-interfaces and tracing meaning and compression for optimal workflows
How to talk to AI Agents with Finn Brown and Pablo Peniche
Watch the full conversation here on X or YouTube: piped.video/QeDOPR6ko9U
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Had a great talk with @finnatsea and the guys from 1 to 100 on voice interfaces, what we've been building at @aquavoice , Singleton AI, human desire, agent swarms and much more!
How to talk to AI Agents with Finn Brown and Pablo Peniche
Watch the full conversation here on X or YouTube: piped.video/QeDOPR6ko9U
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How to talk to AI Agents with Finn Brown and Pablo Peniche
Watch the full conversation here on X or YouTube: piped.video/QeDOPR6ko9U
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Socialism vs Capitalism is a conversation that keeps coming up with my European friends.
And I think Capitalism needs a new name?
For the average person “socialism” sounds friendlier than capitalism. It’s more social, right?
Capitalism sounds less friendly, and maybe it represents the world that didn’t give them the life they wanted.
Voluntaryism was nice, but hard to pronounce, and anarcho-capitalism won the popularity contest, but that sounds even less friendly.
Maybe Cooperation vs Coercion is better framing?
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The Grok @bot commute with @rishabhmjain
"So all of this is happening while I'm driving through the beautiful part of the Bay Area on the 280."
@jackdoesecom @JeremiahPrummer @rishabhmjain
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Perhaps the scariest part of the disconnect in beliefs is that it’s most often the nominally ‘well educated’ person who will defend even greater socialist policies
While it is the person who has empirically built a substantial amount who pushes for more capitalism
And so it’s a debate of sound smart theory vs lived reality which is usually impossible to reconcile
That said, it’s rarely the case that the theorist has correctly accounted for reality…
David Friedberg reveals France's public spending is 57% of GDP: greater than that of communist countries
"This chart is a measure of public spending as a percent of GDP; Rand Group Research published it. And you can see the comparison of France's public spending as a percent of GDP, to the peak public spending as a percent of GDP of major communist nations, Soviet Union during, communist Romania, Venezuela under Chavez, and then communist China."
"It certainly been a socialist state, right? That's my point. I think this is such a precious lesson for the West to look at. We all think that there's some political problem with Macron or whoever it was."
"The more the government spends, the worse the conditions get for its people, not the opposite. And then the people riot and revolt and say that the government's not spending enough and the government needs to be doing more."
"Take a guess where the US is today. Federal government spending is $7.4 trillion, state and local government spending is $4.6 trillion. You add those two together, it's $12 trillion out of a $33 trillion GDP. US public spending is roughly 36% of GDP. France today is the same as the US, it's about 120% debt to GDP."
"France today is operating its national government spending deficit is 5.4% of GDP. The US is actually 6.2% of GDP. France is I think probably the first to go because they're only growing their economy at half a percent while the US is growing 2.3%."
"So we're still kind of hanging on because we have some degree of economic growth that's allowing us to kind of hold things together."
"But I would argue that we are facing the same sort of fiscal cliff that leads to this extraordinary social unrest as France, all the economic measures are aligned, we're at the same rate, we're at the same set of problems."
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Update: This held. Now we’re inviting and briefing creators on Trybe, sending samples and launching ads on Meta, Google and Applovin without people spending time in platform.
All my ad spend across every account on ad platform is now completely automated.
If we're above target efficiency, we increase budget by 20% at 9AM. If we're below, we decrease by 20%.
I'll update this thread to let you know if this was a bad idea in a few weeks
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"I think it will be significant, but 5%, 10%, 20% of shopping being agentic would be significant."
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Security is one of the original services a bank provides, it's also the first one in headlines whenever bearer assets gain favor.
But there are no police reports about these crimes, there are no named Norwegian forest depositers, no public complaints.
Just banks making fun ads for banks.
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The Best Marketers Don’t Become Engineers with @evanmklee from @motionapp_ and @runneth
YouTube: piped.video/8YqM5dIfHJQ
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3Ok…
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the bull case:
Look, I am a known optimist.
So it wont surprise everyone to hear I think things are going to be awesome.
Here is my perspective:
if you are still in business today, you survived at least 6 great crises in the past 6 years.
you survived covid, you survived 2 painful presidential elections; you survived a WORSE gas crisis because of the ukraine conflict; you survived inflation; you survived interest rates rising faster than they ever have, you survived a banking crisis (SVB)
if you are in business today, you are resilient
are things great today?
depends where you look.
housing hasnt imploded.
unemployment is steady.
the largest, most important companies in human history are still growing and shipping new products
there is weakness for sure-
gas prices are the obvious one.
They are the front line on a vibes-secion.
the reason gas prices matter so much is because it is a commodity with no substitute good.
if banana prices go up, you might eat more oranges.
But you have to drive to work every day.
if gas is $3 or $8 a gallon, doesnt matter, you have to drive.
and I wish gas prices were lower.
it is the most direct way to put more spending power back into the average amercians hands.
but look at the chart-
inflation-adjusted, it is a dollar cheaper than the ukraine war peak, and $2 cheaper than in 2008
the economy is more diversified, directly because of the ukraine war, so even with the Iran war dragging on, the impact has been less
I'll tell you, I see the strength in my sales data.
this is NOTHING like 2022.
2022 had runaway inflation.
a real energy shock.
no great new products or investments happening.
in contrast-
people are spending.
people are employed.
stock market is at all time highs (I think this plays a factor)
the reality-
it is an election year.
both sides are in full-on doomer mode, trying to push a narrative.
from my seat, as the ceo of a mid-size discretionary goods company:
It is the greatest time to be building all decade.
I really believe economically we are cooked right now.
The warning signs are everywhere. Gas prices + inflation on food / energy / water / etc.
Disposable income continues to take a hit.
This really is top of mind for me heading into BFCM. Thinking of ways in which to better market, better show value to the consumer.
This means better, more focused ads that drive the user to want to buy with the money they got. That means hitting customers HARD now to add us as their MUST gift for the holidays.
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Day 3: Vibe Coding with Kimi K3 with GPT-5.6 Sol nitter.siddz.com/i/broadcasts/1qxvveyyz…
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The New Playbook with Alex Beller
@ringmybeller from @PostscriptIO joins @jackdoesecom and @rishabhmjain.
Listen to the full conversation here on X, YouTube piped.video/Zp_2EYRESTI and Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/6pv…
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You know that catchphrase podcast hosts keep repeating?
It’s entirely possible I’ve talked about how much my team has loved using @PostscriptIO once a month for the last year on 1 to 100 @saasoperators
But that was old postscript, before the founders ripped it apart and rebuilt it from scratch (and we churned for some reason)
Now it’s better? And you can send email? And you can personalize messages to each customer with AI. So cool. Mega
At the same time, everyone I know is still using Klaviyo. Maybe the switching costs are high? Maybe it’s easy for the team not to learn a new UI 🤷♂️
Whatever it is, PostScript is clearly the better product. The conversation with @ringmybeller is out now, and as usual @EmmettNaughton beat me to it.
Seeing @ringmybeller chat with @jackdoesecom and @rishabhmjain on their podcast. Dude seems so excited about the future of @PostscriptIO Love to see it.
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Love this.
@jackdoesecom, @rishabhmjain and I are 67 episodes in, no sponsorships.
Just doing it because we love it.
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I regularly meet people who say they really enjoy @saasoperators and learn stuff from listening to the convos @jackdoesecom @JeremiahPrummer and I have w guests.
That meaningfully fills the tank for me more than any metrics (I actually literally have no idea what our listener numbers are… nor do I have the logins to check)
Even if it weren’t for that, I learn something from every guest, which is fulfilling in itself.
Love this.
@jackdoesecom, @rishabhmjain and I are 67 episodes in, no sponsorships.
Just doing it because we love it.
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always thought hating on people like hormozi was extremely loser coded
there's never a rational explanation for it
i've always kinda turned my nose up at the typical growth/money/business guru types, but for whatever reason youtube started feeding me @AlexHormozi stuff lately and sweet baby jesus...i can't stop watching.
yes, great business tactics i'm picking up, but his ability to distill problems while also showing an enormous amount of empathy for folks struggling is a master class and dammit just feels good to watch.
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