NYC's public college system paid Oracle ~$600M to build our course management portal. It's built on top of Oracle's PeopleSoft suite, which they refused to customize without an extra $400M (to hit $1B). New Yorkers got the image below and pay $5M+ / year for *hosting*. https://…↗

The SaaS Era is Over ; Software is a Business Tool not a Business Model https://t.co/cMi3PxRaub↗

When To Do What You Love: https://t.co/kMDf3RYhW9↗

If distribution is the new moat, where is the Y-Combinator for creating distribution, not software? I don’t think it exists. There isn’t much product risk anymore in most startups. Only distribution risk.↗

100% spot on take I don't take sponsorship money personally But I sell my own stuff: - my startups sell services - I now sell merch - X pays for my shitposting Same strategy as @MrBeast with his chocolate Better to make and control what you sell, because 1) more honest, 2) y…↗

US Stocks +200% this year. What's your excuse? https://t.co/dnEWRNC34h↗

Use these hooks in your ads to boost sales: https://t.co/uzPF0lu7hk↗

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 prog…↗

How to make winning Facebook image ads (short training): This a braindump from an internal static ads training I hosted today for our team - so I’m sharing it here… Rule #1 - Stop doing what everyone else is What most marketers’ statics have: ❌ Pretty design ❌ Weak (or worse…↗

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 l…↗

A New Era of Shareware? AI is rapidly changing how software is made and, possibly, how it would be used and distributed. While history doesn't repeat it often rhymes, and since the launch of Replit Agent, I've been thinking about the Shareware scene of the 1980s. If you're not…↗

Here are 9 interesting takeaways from a recent deep dive on data related to content we produce: 1. Approximately 50% of my audience is outside the US and in an English speaking country — truly global reach. 2. The fastest growing consumption platform is people watching YouTube…↗

I retired at 32. Went from being CEO of 3 companies to 0 companies in a span of months. This is an honest experience of retirement at 32. After building several successful companies in my 20s, I decided to sell two of them and hand over the CEO role of the remaining company t…↗

If you add the enterprise value of the top 8 outcomes in education, it barely amounts to the enterprise value of OnlyFans. Insane. 🤯 https://t.co/lFSvC4lcmY↗

Here are the stock symbols for the companies mentioned in the image: 1. Johnson Controls – JCI 2. Trane – TT 3. Carrier – CARR 4. Schneider Electric – SBGSY (OTC) or https://t.co/EamRJ3kJjv (Paris) 5. ABB – ABB 6. Vertiv – VRT 7. Eaton – ETN 8. SPX Technologies – SPXC 9. Ebara …↗

If you're into collectables of any kind, you're probably familiar with the "Buy the seller" maxim. You usually have to trust who you're buying from before you can trust the item itself. The same thing is true when buying SaaS — especially if it's a service your business will be…↗

This ad is a masterclass in persuasion: https://t.co/IotVCpfh0I↗

Can the @blumhouse model pioneered by @jason_blum to make insanely lucrative Hollywood movies work in tech? Yup This is the opposite of the go big or go home VC model I break it down and then highlight 14 tech startup categories where the Blumhouse model can work https://t.co…↗