week 3 of Y Combinator and Laurence has generated over $100,000 in advertising sales for our customers selling on amazon

OpenAI kicking off ads with rate-card CPM deals is dumb and will fail, and analogous to Perplexity's failed experiment in the same. Fidji and her former FB ads crew surely know this. They'd only be launching this way if there were internal pressure to 'do something' about

just hopped off a customer call with an 8-figure brand owner. in the last three months, he's churned from: -xnurta -m19 -pacvue -teikametrics this is why Laurence exists. because brands deserve better than shitty software made by amateurs that overpromises and underdelivers

.Laurence automates performance marketing for CPG brands, starting on Amazon. They use reinforcement learning to set bids, budgets, and keyword targets like quant hedge funds trade markets: continuous optimization on autopilot. Congrats on the launch Matthew Chen and

big meta ads moment (found while scrolling)

300k in ad sales generated for Laurence customers this week. never been better

🚀 Laurence launched! Automated Amazon AdvertisingAI “Automated Amazon PPC that actually works” 🌐 fondo.ai/3MtOjmu Congrats Matthew Chen & Shotgun-Charlie (GG)!!

Mark Pincus (Zynga) on holding contradictions

half the cars i see in sf rn are waymos. the rest of america is in for a shock when these things go national

current yc founder here- i actually agree with Dagobert - Corporate sellout 👔 in a way: it is very easy to make the three mistakes listed but i think any founder who makes those mistakes has a MASSIVE skill issue and are ngmi anyway regardless of yc: 1. any founder that mistakes early customer

The reason why brands choose Laurence to manage their Amazon PPC is dead simple: we are miles better than any other option. Results like these need no explanation: - 4x ROAS - 13% TACOS And we've doubled organic sales at the same time ;)

i asked chatgpt to create a caricature of me and my job and this is what it spat out doing it again tomorrow with claude

the amazing team behind Laurence!

step 1 to becoming a marketing agency: chat shit about cpm

it's happening: i'm rebuilding slack internally for Laurence because our founding engineer juggling docs to track changes for each of our customers just doesn't scale and having dozens of internal channels for our customer accounts drowns out the genuinely useful Slack

update: it's done took a single hour can finally delete all our channels and consolidate our docs into an organizational structure that reflects how we work