big fan of this new Claude persona

lol - major progress at Rivo today. We have earned a compare page powered by ad spend from a large legacy competitor. All love of course, pretty neat that our tiny bootstrapped startup is causing this much disruption to a company that’s raised over $500M : -) What a time to be

i work from a little office out in my back garden. there has never been a better time to be a bootstrapped startup aiming up.

I think we’re quickly going to go from: “How are you implementing AI into your workflows” to: “How are you implementing Humans into your workflows”

my main takeaway from over 2M installs on the Shopify app store. If you're an app store focused business (Stores < $1M GMV) To win, you need: 1. A good product (w/Built for Shopify), properly priced. 2. Dedicated 24/7 live chat support that drives 10-100x more reviews than

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90% of companies sold in the Shopify SaaS ecosystem turn to zombies within 12-18 months unless merged into a parent company. this is 10x true when it's a Founder-led CEO Have experienced this myself (outside of the Shopify ecosystem). It's extremely hard to keep the same

turns out I know nothing about how stock prices work.

I love Shopify. I’ve earned almost $30M in app partner payouts over 10 years, and have always had great interactions with their team. But this is the level of platform risk that eventually stopped us investing in the App Store. Reminder: your business can be shut off from

my experience in what it takes to overcome the biggest SaaS milestone blockers. $0 - $1M ARR: First million is completely a mindset issue. Once you break that, everything else becomes possible. $1 - $5M ARR: Determination to hit your numbers, lazer focused on product and

Brands I want on Season 7 of Chew On This: AdoreMe American Giant Apothekary Atlas Coffee Balance of Nature Beanbox Blueland Bonobos Bulletproof Clive Coffee Cometeer Cotopaxi Counterculture Coffee Curology Dime Beauty DrSquatch Drunk Elephant ELOQUII Ever

Ridge has spent money on every channel you can imagine: YouTubers, Podcasters, Native Newsletters, Programmatic Newsletters, Affiliate, every social platform who would take our money, CTV, Linear, Digital forums, twitch creators, print ads, community sponsorships. And I've

I’ve replayed this podcast ep at least 3 or 4 times so far. Phenomenal advice for any startup. TL;DR - Delete bullshit - Move insanely fast - Reduce complexity everywhere

we’re about to hit 80% of the code being shipped at Rivo coming from agentic coding tools. The major unlock that took us from 50-80% has been the cc-sessions framework by Toast X for Claude Code. I think we’ll see a major shift towards agentic coding frameworks just like