Demystifying NFTs: (A thread)
1/ The first 18 months of a startup: After starting my 2nd company in 2019, I decided I would write down useful lessons I learned or re-learned along the way. Some were hard-earned & others required steady focus. A thread that I hope may help other founders starting out 👇
Warren Buffett is a treasure trove of wisdom. But contrary to what you have been told, most of it has nothing to do with investing. 10 powerful lessons for life from the Oracle of Omaha:
The most undervalued asset of a CEO is an Executive Assistant. My EA saves me 60% of time. I'm able to run a tech startup, coach 7 CEO's every month, write & surf every day, take @david_perell's intense WOP course, cook dinner and read every night. Here's how:
Curious about how a company with a $1.6+ trillion market-cap writes persuasive copy? Use these 7 tips to write like an Amazonian 🧵 https://t.co/tKLAxyUCVb
Founder 1: Runs startup for five years. Sells for ~$100M. Makes $30M. Founder 2: Running startup for ten years (and counting). Valued at ~$1B. Founder shares valued at $30M. Which founder would you rather be? /🧵
Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift, and Drake generate non-stop hits for years. What are they doing differently? Thread: How to generate way more ideas
Great marketers steal. If there is any brand you should steal email marketing tactics from -- it's Airbnb. They use it to perfection to acquire users and retain them. Steal these 7 emails 🧵 https://t.co/v5216AUssD
Want to master business writing? You should. Top business ppl like Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, and Sherly Sandberg have mastered the art of business writing. One Bezos shareholder letter and you'll notice it. It can be taught. Give me 5 min 🧵
I fist bought Bitcoin in November 2013. Here is the original article where I applied rudimentary stock to flow analysis, later perfected by @100trillionUSD My equivalence price target was 700 ounces of gold = one BTC. At currency prices that is around $1.3m.
A meta-threads of my top threads (that will make you smarter) sprinkled in with memes (that will make you dumber)🧵
I’ve help build internet communities that have generated hundreds of millions of members The most often question I get asked is: But Greg - how do I build a community from scratch?! Here's what I usually say:
What do Airbnb, Facebook, Spotify, Hubspot, and Slack all have in common? They all have a North Star Metric that influences their long-term growth. This means the one metric that all business units focus on. Here's the breakdown 🧵
Read through Ark Invest's Big Ideas 2021 report. Here's a tweet and chart for each of the 15 ideas 🧵 https://t.co/JYGKFqaFjF
There are three key ways to get rich: 1. Start a Business 2. Be Born Into a Wealthy Family 3. Extreme Patience Everyone likes the stories about #1 and #2. Nobody likes to hear about #3. Too bad. Today, I'm going to tell you a story about a guy who made billions with #3...
Founder/Go-to-Market Fit: If primary GTM is bottom-up, founder needs to be great at product. If primary GTM is inbound, founder needs to be great at marketing. If primary GTM is outbound, founder needs to be great at sales.
My favourite formula for writing “features & benefits” 1/ Write down the feature 2/ Ask, “so what?” to find the benefit 3/ Contrast the *old way* with your *new way* https://t.co/n9KWVxg6HW
What is the most clever customer acquisition strategy you’ve ever seen?
Take rates of 40 marketplaces, platforms, and more. Takeaways and surprises in thread 👇 https://t.co/xtdInea3Tk
It’s a lot easier to AVOID things that make you miserable than to predict what will make you happy. There’s an incredible @Harvard Study from 1938 that sheds light on just how to avoid a miserable life. In 2013, reading it caused me to quit drinking and changed my life...
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