1. Shopify stock is down 50% over the past 12 months. Its mission may be to "arm the rebels," but it is giving us muskets in a war that is increasingly being fought with machine guns. 👇👇👇

People who say "DTC is now dead" have never really built a brand before. They were really good at arbitrating an ad platform and knowing how to get customers to convert with mediocre ads and websites. DTC is not "dead" at all. In fact, it's just getting started.

1/ One of the most interesting and challenging aspects of M&A that’s emerging within the ecommerce industry right now is sales tax. If you’re thinking about selling your ecommerce business anytime soon, please read on: 👇👇

You know you're a founder when quitting isn't an option. Even if you run out of money.

Today is my first Father’s Day. Here are the principles I hope to embody as a father (and teach my child to live by):

I have a HUGE email marketing folder with: - 7 Email Flows - 30 Email Subjects - Filters & Logic - & more I usually charge clients $149, but I’m giving it away for FREE as a test. Want it? Like & Retweet this post & I’ll DM it to you (MUST be following me, 24hrs only)

22 powerful ideas from the first half of 2022:

You can boil most of success to: enduring short term discomfort for long term achievement.

“Entrepreneurship is living a few years of life like most people won't, so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people can't.” - Anonymous

I've generated over $1 billion in sales using ONE strategy. Used it in every recession - 2000, 2009, and 2020. I've never shared it publicly before. This thread might make you a millionaire.

Just thinking about how the United States could have been the world leader in 5G technology instead of China if we had just given *one guy* a green card when he needed one

Sama inserts the secret recipe into a GPT: "I'm going to say I want to help startup founders think through their business ideas and get advice. After the founder has gotten some advice, grill them on why they are not growing faster."

The hardest part of a Venture Studio is Talent. The same is true for VC, PE, and any other HoldCo like structure. After 3 years, we’ve learned some things about partnering with CEOs and what to evaluate. I’m sharing our evaluation template here, today. Just RT and Comment

Meet Hume’s Empathic Voice Interface (EVI), the first conversational AI with emotional intelligence.

TSMC forecasting a 1000x improvement in GPU performance per watt over the next 15 years. Coupled with major algorithmic improvements we're quickly seeing every week, it isn't crazy to expect 100,000 to 1,000,000x increase in AI performance per dollar in the next decade and a half

On Wednesday, Astro Mechanica will put on a YC Demo Day demo for the ages when it unveils its flight-ready Turboelectric Adaptive Engine. And not a moment too soon. The airline industry’s decay -- captured by Boeing's demise -- is a symptom of the end of the Jet Age. We’ve

I’ve talked about the lack of financial education in eCom before, so let's help solve it Introducing Obvi Finance School: 15 pages of our approach to P/L setup, financial forecasting, and management reporting Follow, Like, RT & Comment "school" and I'll DM it to you

I wrote a book! My team compiled the *best* personal finance & tax content I've shared here over the last 2 years Personal Finance 101, Money for Startup Founders, Strategies to Pay Less in Taxes & more RT or Reply to this post & I'll DM you a copy (must be following)

I recorded a 3-hour video course to help people save money on taxes The course has content for: - Business owners - W2 employees - People with a job & a side hustle It's called 25 Strategies to Save Money on Taxes, and features detailed breakdowns on: - Solo 401k - Tax-Loss

I wrote a 20,000 word Notion guide on what I would do differently as a founder if I were to start from scratch Covers equity, fundraising, raising money, taxes, hiring & paying my team, running finance, selling secondaries & exiting Comment or RT & I'll DM you a copy