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Co-Founder & CMO @looplyhqcom | Growing it 100% organic, $0 on ads | Posting what works for us on X

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Joined February 2024
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Instantly studied billions of cold emails sent on its platform across 2025. Here's what it found :
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Worst cold email opener you got this year? 👇
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Your DON'T CONTACT list needs evidence too. A model taught me that. Our brief said never contact companies that only use Salesforce. One company in the batch had a job post for a Salesforce Administrator to "maintain and extend our Salesforce CPQ setup." Easy SKIP, right ? Claude Opus 5.5 didn't skip it for that. It scored the row and wrote (fictional company, real output) : "Its text shows Salesforce, but not that it uses only Salesforce." And it was right. A Salesforce admin job tells you they use Salesforce. It doesn't tell you they only use Salesforce. It still skipped the row, but for a different reason : "it shows no signal." Then we added our own check, Salesforce-only confirmed. Now the exclusion applied, and the row said so : "Rule now confirmed." Two things I took from it : → write exclusions a stranger could check → an exclusion you haven't verified is an assumption, in either direction Cutting a good lead on a guess costs as much as emailing a bad one. In @looplyhqcom, that's the exclude list : each agent leaves out the companies you name.
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Calling it: "what happens when your model goes down" becomes a normal question on every SaaS sales call this year nitter.gq/ShippedNews/status/212…
BREAKING: @claudeai REPORTS ELEVATED ERRORS ACROSS CLAUDE.AI, THE API AND CLAUDE CODE IMPACT MARKED MAJOR, CLAUDE COWORK ALSO LISTED AS AFFECTED SOURCE: status.claude.com/incidents/…
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Friday the 13th. Perfect day to stop writing "just touching base" 🫠
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What a good signal looks like: → it has a date → it's about one person → you can say it in one line
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G2 surveyed 1,100 B2B decision-makers on how they research and buy software. What they found:
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Replying to @ShippedNews
@ShippedNews, day 4 : 13 stories posted. Median views per story : 204. Most viewed : 490, the one on Google Cloud shipping TPU 8i Max and TPU 8tx, its third and fourth TPU systems of 2026. That's where it stands so far.
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Smartlead studied more than 850 million cold emails sent through its platform. Here's what they found :
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Friday the 13th. Perfect day to stop writing "just touching base" 🫠
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"Can we hop on a quick call?" in a first email is proposing on the first date 😅
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moving from kolkata to bangalore taught me something i wasn't expecting. you can be excited about the life you're building and still miss the one you left behind. sometimes it's just hearing familiar voices around me, or wanting food that tastes exactly the way i remember it. small things make you homesick.
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