How Loom grew from 0-500K users, and beyond: [Part 2 of 2]↗

😃 I'm excited to announce @reforge has raised $21M from @andrewchen and @illscience at @a16z along with a group of product, eng, marketing, data, and design leaders... Full Story -> reforge.com/blog/weve-rais… 🧵 On where we've been and what is next 👇↗

Apple & Amazon stock are each up ~300X over the last 20 yrs. Lots of people used and loved those companies' products even in 2001, but how many invested and held for 2 decades? Very few. What companies are like that today? Which public companies have 100x+ potential over 20 yrs?↗

How did @github “win” as the default platform for projects and developers? What early choices or strategies were most responsible for it winning?↗

I built communities that created 83m new customers in 2020 with this marketing framework I'm curious your thoughts A startup marketing manifesto:↗

I was just trapped in a snowstorm in a 2-bedroom apartment 72 hours with one of the most powerful venture capitalists in the world. This person (@andrewchen) is a partner at Andreessen Horowitz I asked them how to get rich through angel investing. Here's what they told me...↗

If you make more than $100k per year you should have a Virtual Assistant. If you don't, you're wasting your time on stuff that doesn't matter. Here's the process I've created to find, interview, and manage great VA's after doing this for 5 years:↗

I've built online communities since I was 14, and have interviewed 100's of successful community builders and founders. Here's what I've learned about building great communities: 🧵↗

🔥 Excited to announce the Spring cohort of Reforge 🔥 10 cohort-based programs, build+led by top executives, focused on helping you learn, execute, and scale. Applications for Spring are due by Feb 19th. Programs -> reforge.com/all-programs 🧵 Details...↗

On a ⁦@joinClubhouse⁩ call 👂🏾to ⁦@ErikaBatista⁩ ⁦@isolive⁩ on How to Build Highly Engaged Communities.↗

At @synthesischool we design games that help kids navigate the complexity and chaos that eventually unfolds in our lives. Kids develop a body of thinking tools—aka mental models—that they can use outside our games to make better decisions and solve real problems. Here's how👇🏼↗

Introducing “Superpowers” - the underlying skills that help you succeed at anything I spent nearly 6 months building this list and almost wrote a book on the subject Instead, I’ve condensed that work into a pithy (and punchy) Twitter thread **Read On**↗

Before Udemy could succeed, we had to solve a chicken and egg problem. These problems are a constant dilemma for founders. (ie. Funding is needed to scale but scale is needed for funding.) Here's how we bumbled to a solution that kicked off our $3B business. **Read On**↗

THREAD: My step-by-step guide to writing landing pages↗

How to build an audience using a content flywheel (how people like @SahilBloom, @JamesClear and @jackbutcher build massive attention & audiences) 👇 👇 👇↗

In school we learn to play the status game, the grades game, the compliance game... These games may help us “win” the game of school, but won’t get us far in real life. To succeed in life, whatever that means to us, we need to master a different game... The *METAGAME* 👇🏼🧵↗

THREAD: I've been very serious about personal development for 10+ years. But not just reading... I've been putting the principles to work as I've grown and sold my business (7 figure exit) and built a real estate portfolio worth $20MM+. Here are a few of my top takeaways:↗

THREAD: 10 significant lies you're told about the world. On startups, writing, and your career:↗

Here’s how to double conversion on your startup’s homepage. (From rewriting over 1,000 websites.) A thread 👇↗

Amidst the chaos this year folks forget the following industries all had record sales / performance in 2020: Exercise / fitness Car sales Groceries E-commerce Electronics Video games Domestic appliances Furniture Ghost kitchens Online meeting platforms PPE suppliers↗

The perfect cold email doesn't exi-↗

I’ve gotten a lot of bad advice in my career and I see even more of it here on Twitter. Time for a stiff drink and some truth you probably dont want to hear. 👇👇↗

How I run my business 2020 was my 10th year as an entrepreneur. Here are some "rules" I try to follow after a decade of stumbling around building my company. (Not rules for all businesses. Just how I choose to run mine.) A thread 👇👇👇↗

It’s crazy how few people understand basic startup equity but are faced with major career decisions based on these concepts.↗

What was the single best podcast episode you listened to this year?↗

Communities are a focal point of cohort-based courses (CBCs). You can't just have a start and end date, and expect students to finish. You NEED community. So how is community building different for CBCs vs other products? What are challenges unique to courses? Read on↗

My favourite landing page formula: 1/ Explain the value you provide (title) 2/ Explain how you'll create it (subtitle) 3/ Let the user visualise it (image) 4/ Make it believable (social proof) 5/ Make taking the next step easy (CTA)↗

👋🌊 [new thing] - What gets a tweet get retweeted? I love studying narrative & storytelling - so I spent > 20 hours digging through Twitter building an index of popular tweets Here's 10 categories of tweets that got traction, with a few examples of each:↗

The path for Synthesis opened up six years ago when Elon Musk walked into parent-teacher conference night… Buckle up. It’s story time 🚀 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼↗

On 5/29/13 (my birthday!), I filed to incorporate Palo Alto Delivery Inc., later renamed DoorDash Inc. It's mostly not my story to tell. But I'll share a bit today about how it started. My goal is to give aspiring entrepreneurs a window into one founding story.↗