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.↗

@jonbma My take: calm went after sleep (problem for everyone). Headspace went after meditation (aspiration for some). Calm went after easier and bigger pain point.↗

📚Founders exploring building a community: I wrote The Community Playbook Cheat Sheet to complement @flybridge's Community Playbook + to help you get your cos community started! Cheat sheet includes 💬Q&A ✅Check-list 📝Notes + additional resources link.medium.com/tcw7L7MHVbb↗

🆕 When you enable a new payment frequency on a Membership, it automatically sets the price as a multiple of the other frequencies. (Of course, you can change this price.) This is our first post-launch memberships improvement. Far from our last! Roadmap: …↗

What's an interesting cash flowing public company that could be supercharged if I could get a hold of it and help revamp its technology and go to market?↗

Every startup needs to figure out its flywheel - it provides incredible strategic clarity on what levers to focus on. This is a great example from Doordash's S-1 showing how their business has 3 interlocking flywheels built around local network effects, economies of scale & brand↗

Have spent my entire life in B2C marketing. Need to transition to figure out B2B. Link me to your best books/articles/resources.↗

A pizza delivery driver turned a $1,000 investment into a $1.45 billion clothing empire. The best part? He did it without ever owning a retail store. Time for a thread 👇👇👇↗

10 nuggets of wisdom about pricing strategy pulled from @Patticus's epic guest post last week, including how much to discount, when to consider freemium, the impact of design on price, whether to end your price with a 9 vs. 0, value props, and much more Read on 👇↗

Current inspiration stack: ⚡️ 👩🏻‍💻Master social like @fast ✍🏻 Create content like @Supermetrics ✨Own your website’s design like @Pitch 💪🏻 Do personal branding like @uxblake 🧠 Learn like @brandonthezhang↗

A large site with a large number of images, like the Pixel Geek Community, needed a way to optimize everything with one click. Thanks to @t_bekkers for making this happen :) Coming soon to Flowbase.co↗

I wrote 30 Twitter threads in 30 days. The goal? Learn how to craft interesting threads, and grow a following. It (mostly) worked. - New followers: +2.5K (+100% MoM) - Top thread: 373K impressions - Top tweet: 2.5K likes Here's what I learned. Quick thread 👇👇↗

Here's the quick story of how we went from $0 -> $2m ARR in <2 years. We did this with founder-led sales, and this also helped us become profitable. We then used a lot of these same techniques to build out our sales team. Let's go.↗

one of them should buy @makerpad asap↗

What companies have leveraged community as a large growth lever?↗

@joshelman @akruglov Building a "Twitter -> Roam -> Neuralink" workflow using Zapier this weekend. cc @jack @Conaw @elonmusk @wadefoster↗

At Not Boring... IT'S TIME TO MONETIZE. 💰 Made a Sponsor Deck, and sharing it, because: 1. I didn't know what I was doing so: - Others probably don't either, hope this helps - Would love feedback 2. Twitter is full of potential sponsors. - DM to get involved↗

1/ The investment management business is turning into the media business, but most investment managers don't realize it.↗

One of the requests I got after I published the Hierarchy of Marketplaces (medium.com/@sarahtavel/th…) is to share the audio voiceover of the slides. Here is the voiceover for Level 1 - lmk what you think about the format. If useful, I'll do Level 2 and 3.↗

💡 Startup Ideas💡 How do you find great ideas? How do you evaluate them? • @paulg • @sama • @eriktorenberg • @Austen • @cdixon • @lennysan • @shl 7 thoughts from 7 deep thinkers…↗

The first B2B game is going to create a new category. It’ll have to be different than normal games though for it to succeed in work culture. Probably less individually competitive and more co-op while scaling to 8-20 people.↗

What’s a movie / series you’ve watched more than 5x?↗

School: - Here’s what you’ll learn - Here’s what you’ll use to learn that - Here’s how you’ll show what you learned What actually works: - What do you want to learn? - What do you need to learn that? - How will you share what you learned?↗

On Aug. 27, 2003, @stoolpresidente and @barstoolsports released the company’s first newspaper issue. Seventeen years later, Barstool is valued at $450M after Penn National acquired 36% for $163 million in cash/stock in '20. A thread on the media, betting and comedy biz...👇↗

Lessons on the Writing, Distribution and Newsletters. Synthesized from the webinar between @lennysan and @david_perell Lenny grew his newsletter to 28,000+ free subscribers and 1200+ paid subscribers generating a 6 figure income Truly 1000 true fans. - Time for a Thread -↗

1/ For early-stage #startups your narrative matters just as much as your idea. We've put together a pre-seed pitch deck outline based on thousands of successful decks that have raised hundreds of millions of dollars. Here's what your deck should include:↗

This is how @bijan described his investment thesis in 2014. Solid six years later.↗

What's the best fellowship program or community you've ever been a part of? (Digital or IRL)↗

Giving away your work for free is like compressing a spring that releases when you finally put something up for sale. The longer you do it, the more energy is released. Steve and I compressed the Refactoring UI spring for over two years. It made $1,000,000 in the first month.↗

How did @NotionHQ build a $2B SaaS company that’s at... • 1m+ active users • 20m+ monthly visitors • 40k+ referring domains *just* to their homepage • 5k new subreddit members/mo … in only 4 years? (a thread) 🧵↗