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Small Bets is joining Gumroad! Yes, I sold Small Bets. I’m going to keep running it myself, but Gumroad is now the 100% owner. It’s a good deal for me, and it should only bring more benefits to the community. Details - $3.6M sale price. - 50% cash / 50% stock options. - Cash…↗

Social headlines make it seem cohort-based courses are in the toilet. Yet Maven’s instructors have 2x’ed their earnings in the last 12 months. What is going on? In the last year: The altMBA shut down. Building a Second Brain shut down. Write of Passage shut down. d/MBA announced…↗

Creator economy observations as we get close to the end of the year: - Many large creators are thinking about their exit plan, most are confused on how to best execute it - VCs and investors missed the actual point of the creator economy, torching $$$ investing in companies li…↗

Sponsorships are broken. - As a creator, I don't want to be told what to say. - As a follower, I don't trust sponsored words (unless there's skin in the game). Greedy creators will take any sponsor for more $$$ (check @bryan_johnson's video calling out the AG1 influencers progr…↗

I'M FEELING SPICY TODAY I'll say the quiet parts out loud: 1. I wish I enjoyed opening Notion. Am I the only one who finds it slow and clunky? 2. AI is bleeding customers. The consumer experience needs to be as addictive as swiping on TikTok or IG. Until that’s fixed, you won'…↗

Vibe I am getting without referencing data: A lot of VCs and founders are realizing right now how hard it is to build a truly generational company It is still 100% possible, it’s just still very rare. The glut of VC funding in the 2010s era was predicated on the idea that t…↗

Last year, I taught a 4-week long course about the creator economy ⁠— covering history of the industry, creators as businesses, web3, future predictions, & more. Now, all of the videos & materials from that course are available to everyone for free! 📚 creatoreconomycourse.xyz↗

Today, I'll cross $2M in income in 2.5 years as a creator. All 6 revenue streams are managed using systems. Here are my 9 "must-have" systems for creators. [🧵 thread}↗

In 2018, Alex Cooper launched "Call Her Daddy" on Barstool with only $70k in guaranteed money. 3 years later, she closed a $60m deal with Spotify. Every creator should study her story. Fortunately, Dave Portnoy has laid it all out in 2 separate podcasts. Here's a breakdown 🧵↗

1/ Here's what's happening in the online education market broadly, and cohort-based courses specifically: We're leaving the early stage of solo creators managing everything from audience growth to marketing/sales to creating the content to teaching all by themselves↗

Everyone wants to decouple time from money. The problem? It's an extremely unpredictable way to make a living. For every successful creator, there are thousands who make nothing or almost nothing. So, how do you make the unpredictable, predictable? Here's what I learned:↗

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↗

The state of online learning: 1) YouTube will eat the low-end of the market. 2) People will pay 5-15x more for live courses. 3) The three biggest competitive advantages are the personality of a creator, the warmth of the community, and the quality of the student experience.↗