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 👇
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? /🧵
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 🧵
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 🧵
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...
Over the last 12 months, my tweets on remote work have had 80,000,000+ impressions Here are my learnings, predictions & advice [ a thread ] 💻🏠🌍
6 Things @rabois learned from @peterthiel 1. The value of time 2. The importance of focus 3. The importance of recruiting undiscovered talent 4. M&A opportunities and IPO exits are highly correlated 5. Eschew "general management" 6. The best startups are cults https://t.co…
If you were compiling a set of topics you’d want every investment analyst to learn, what would be on the list?
This is my first time doing a course run out of @NotionHQ. It is really well suited to this kind of thing. The level of organization you can control, nested pages/card, and backlink references all make for a pretty awesome no-code course platform.
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