I know y'all have a lot of opinions about Nick.

Having hung out with him and his family a bunch, he's a real one and I'm so excited to see what he does with Shepherd and beyond.

Big news:

Yesterday I acquired controlling interest in Support Shepherd for $29.7 million.

I am officially betting my career on this company.

The backstory:

In 2021 I used Support Shepherd to hire my first overseas customer service rep.

I was running my real estate (self…

Nick's brought me so much joy the past year or so, mainly because he's willing to do stuff like this...

:)

DO IT

Was a wildly successful program for AI companies that participated. :)

Sold a company for $200M+
Graduated 1st in college
Won a national title in debate

Am I bottling confidence?

Nope.

I'm *incredibly* insecure.

Just like a lot of you (and your teams).

Here's the framework I use to turn that insecurity into fuel.

It's called SCOREBOARD 🧵

This is an awesome program from Paddle if you're thinking about building something in AI.

Some great products came out of the first cohort.

🚨 Announcement 🚨

Today I'm super STOKED to announce the latest global founder program I'll be running at Paddle 🌎

It's called Paddle's AI Launchpad

And today we're officially opening doors to the 2nd cohort

Here's the backstory and why you should APPLY ⤵️

Thank you, Amanda.

Perfectly said.

What Wendy's is doing with dynamic pricing is innovative and if it works out will actually have major positive implications for millions of small businesses (and team members of those businesses).

How we got our first 20 customers?

From a reddit AMA I did a few years ago.

Some people suck.

They're rude.
They lack integrity.
They're distrespectful.

There's nothing you can do.

You can't change them.
You can't teach them.
You can't help them.

They just suck.

So deal with them or refuse to work with them.

Do you struggle with your health?

Or did you?

Would love to interview you for something I'm working on. I have nothing to sell you! :)

Check out Patrick Campbell's 'Competitive Research Guide'. It's a masterpiece of nerdiness.

Patrick Campbell has bootstrapped his $200M business based on research and worked as a researcher in NSA, for crying out loud.

It's also actionable, you could probably build a competitive…

Does money buy happiness?

I saw Patrick Campbell on My First Million talking about the relationship between money and happiness.

So, I made a full YouTube video exploring this topic in more depth

This is a clip from it.

The full video is in the comments below!

What's holding you back from being healthier?

🙏

Do you know if you're healthy?

How do you know?

unpop opinion the current state of longevity research is absolute shambles

virtually no one agrees on anything

the recommendations from the top gurus are super contradictory and super random

feels like we're in equivalent of the bloodletting and leeches age of medicine…

Cold Plunge Market Size: ~$400M

# of people studied in cold plunge research: ~100

Not per study. In all the studies.

Fascinating.