Bias-to-Action is a core concept of any serious operator. To get good at something, you must start by just doing it. You won’t be any good at first, but that’s the only way to put in the practice required to develop a skill. Counterintuitively, the only way you build excellence

Any food recommendations in Phoenix?

Eric is a real GOAT for fighting these guys. They've scammed so many companies.

You are worried about your “brand”. Meantime Uber is sending out affiliate offers for gambling lol

You can probably get basically free consulting from Drew Sanocki if you take him up on this. He ran a bunch of chunky dtc brands. :-)

Offsite fridge is BASED

Those hours in a warehouse are way more brutal than an office. 👊🏽

Shiphero / Aaron Rubin saved us a VERY NICE CHUNK OF DOLLARS. Recommend looking into them before bfcm. 🫡

Anyone spending meaningfully on Pinterest?

Investment bankers are literally the best salesman of all time. Any time you talk to one, discount whatever it is they are saying by 40%.

Your corporate values should all make people say “this is me” or “this isn’t me”. They should repel just as much as they attract. Otherwise they are too mushy.

Why do so many nice restaurants neglect their coffee? 😔

Companies with under ~$2m - $4m in EBITDA are far less interesting than they were a few years ago. There are too many idiots armed with SBA loans to bid against now.

One of our companies on a fresh Shopify+ instance has a payment hold on it because it's new and needs it removed ASAP. It's on Shopify+ so I'm pretty shocked it's been flagged like this. Does anyone know someone at Shopify that can help? Harley Finkelstein tobi lutke

Thanks for having me on! 👊🏽👊🏽👊🏽

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It's true what Sean Frank says, Postscript and sms are my second passion. Bowling is my first #280 Good ep w/ Mehtab | Karta Ventures on the latest Operators! open.spotify.com/episode/70g0s6…

We added 7 figures in EBITDA in a few weeks for two 8 figure retailers we have run by introducing a vendor marketing program. Generally, big brands you carry are run by guys that love paying for impressions. Sell them these impressions. It can be for placements on your site,

50% of a good CTO is resisting to dumbass urge to build everything in house.