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kyle retweeted
fuck this is so real. the instagramification of my mind has made it hard to even appreciate simple things like going for a walk in the park, my reticular activation is trained to only see shiny sexy things and drown out the little stuff that really matters
spending too much time online you become the digital panopticon and lose all sense of subjectivity in the world
kyle retweeted
Had my friend @kylejunlong on the pod to talk about masculinity.
Masculinity as a topic always feels so spicy to talk about, didn't realize I had as many thoughts as I did.
Links below!
kyle retweeted
Talk to a top-tier creative and chances are, you’ll be blown away by how prolific they are in their consumption: The musician who listens to 10 albums a week, the designer who’s visited antique stores in 57 countries, the architect who’s living room is stacked with piles of reference guides, the writer who’s read 1,000 novels, the filmmaker who watches 400 movies per year. The method varies, but the core pattern stays the same… it’s constant consumption, day after day.
kyle retweeted
Someone saw Cormac McCarthy in an elevator and asked him for writing advice. He said to read a thousand books for every one that you write.
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kyle retweeted
interviewed a woman who owns a shop in chinatown & this line she said lives rent free in my head
kyle retweeted
Startups are obviously not the same as the military, but I believe this new era of building companies will feature CEOs who want to change the world with "Seal Team 6" (tight, small, elite company) rather than "The Navy" (lots of headcount, bureaucracy).
AI and other tools will unlock high-performers to do even more. Cultural bonds will be even stronger in these companies that may always stay below Dunbar's number, even when doing 100s of millions in revenue.
kyle retweeted
just a heads up since a lot of ppl are giving diet advice in this thread:
the most important thing is figuring out what works for YOU. some people thrive on low/zero carb. some like vegan, low fat, others prefer walking 20k+ steps/day or just focusing on 1-2g protein/lb of bodyweight (me).
getting advice will always have an individual level of survivorship bias because we all have different preferences and biology. it's why the diet industry exists - there's no one-size-fits-all. experimenting with a few hypotheses is the best way to fine tune what works for you.
(also- don't love everything hormozi puts out but here's great a video that explains why all diets work: youtube.com/watch?v=RpqSy5V1…)
kyle retweeted
i generally think advice is overrated, but there's some bangers in here that i wanted to remind myself of:
1. post something online every day.
2. DM cool people with common interests.
3. build a nest egg - something with stable MRR to fall back on, “ramen profitable.”
4. learn to cook a few staple meals.
5. craft a living and breathing mission statement. it’s okay if you change this.
6. create a list of energy drainers and givers. things and people. update it every three months.
7. work with people you look up to.
8. create a story bank. collect stories, anecdotes, insights… and share them.
9. it’s okay to start from zero. life is a game of starting from zero many times and climbing back up.
10. be kind, trust your gut, work hard and you’ll do well.
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kyle retweeted
funding secured
it’s been real SF
you forget how much you can get done in 24 hours in this city
1 day is 1 week here
and for the last two weeks we’ve been holed up in a chinatown wework as we made our pilgrimage down market street for graphed .com - The AI agent for marketing analytics
we talked to 59 people
and now it’s time to go back to building
we launched Graphed 90 days ago and did not expect the response we got
1000 signups in the first 30 days from purely organic channels, no paid ads
at one point we had to turn off free trials bc we couldn’t afford the AWS bill
the problem marketing teams face to do simple analytics is such a bigger problem than we realized
you would traditionally need a data engineer / data scientist to build:
>data pipeline
>data warehousing
>data ontology
>data visualization
just to get insights
Graphed does all of this
the ontology is the most important part of what we’re doing
we understand the underlying data source and build context for our agent so the human user needs zero data literacy to get insights
it's also critical to relate everything to the business outcomes that drive growth, so our agent can search the web to do the research it needs to create insights the teams need
here's the customer profiles we’re having traction with so far
> founders: birdseye view of their whole orgs data
> marketing teams: KPI reporting
> marketing agencies: client reporting
> ecommerce teams: ROI measurement
> product teams: product analytics
endless calls make the why now so obvious
agents are finally smart enough to understand the ontology of the data necessary to write code, and data pipeline / warehouse is relatively solved
we’re removing all the constraints for technically adjacent people to get insights and do their job better
every single person we've talked to about this has had polarizing beliefs
either they 100% agree how obvious it is that someone is going to build this
or they dogmatically tell us this is the wrong thing to be building and that we’ll be another one of the 1000+ dead bodies that exist on this path
this bipolar view has given me 100x more conviction we’re building the right thing
if no one cared, I would be extremely worried
and my cofounder max chehab and I are the ones to build this
max was first engineer at WorkOS, second engineer at Hightouch, and first engineer at Rupa Health
and data analytics for growth marketing is the shadow government controling my life
we met at Rupa Health and we're there from day 1 of meteoric growth
we've seen what it takes to build unbeatable products and teams
and for the last 3 years we have been building AI marketing products together trying to find the product with the right biology to be big
this is the thing
back to work
im in SF the next two weeks raising for graphed .com
we'll be here until October 24th
we launched Graphed 90 days ago and the response has been insane
at one point we had to turn off free trials because we couldn’t afford the AWS bill
we didn't realize how big a problem this is that marketers are currently facing
the marketing insights stack is severely broken
marketing data is siloed in places like Google ads, Facebook Ads, Amplitude, Hubspot, RevenueCat, Supabase, Sendgrid, Stripe (the list is endless)
it takes a technical person to build the data pipeline, the data warehouse, and connect the data to a BI tool for visualization
and the BI tools people use right now like Tableau or Power BI or Looker Studio have a massive learning curve, it can take months to just get competent
we're solving all of this
we make it so marketers can get data insights with no technical setup and zero learning curve
> we handle real-time transfer and syncing (ETL)
> we manage and optimize the data warehouse
> our AI agent can build charts, dashboards, and reports to provide insights
in the first 30 days we got 1000+ signups
we booked 90+ demo calls when we ran a two week test of signup > book discovery call
our signup to free trail start is 40%
our free trial to paid conversion rate is 20%
all of this growth is from my personal owned media
zero paid so far
we have traction with
> founders: birdseye view of their whole orgs data
> marketing teams: KPI reporting
> marketing agencies: client reporting
> ecommerce teams: ROI measurement
now is the time to build this
AI agents are good enough to write the code for data visualization which makes insights
data transfer and sync has been solved
data storage is cheap and efficient
incumbents can’t do this, they would need to fundamentally change their product's biology for this technology to work
if you're in SF and work with early stage i want to meet you
kyle retweeted
the larger the muscles and the more money the more acutely the lack of love is felt. 'People dislike me despite my very good qualities? I must be incredibly loathsome'
kyle retweeted
i don't believe society has a meaning crisis. i believe society has a basic safety, love, and esteem crisis
