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Zain Kahn

@heykahn

Insights on AI and building startups. Previously scaled products to 8 million+ users. Currently building the world's biggest AI newsletter with 600k+ readers ↓

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The Pyramid of Content Snobbery:

Academics look down on book writers

Book writers look down on journalists

Journalists look down on bloggers

Bloggers look down on Twitter creators

Twitter creators look down on Instagrammers

Instagrammers look down on TikTokers

And…

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This is what product-market fit looks like for newsletters:

• 70% of Superhuman ads for the next 30 days are from repeat sponsors
• Sponsors keep coming back despite 7x increase in price over 7 months
• Sponsors send emails and DMs like this in the middle of the night:

This is what product-market fit looks like for newsletters: • 70% of Superhuman ads for the next 30 days are from repeat sponsors • Sponsors keep coming back despite 7x increase in price over 7 months • Sponsors send emails and DMs like this in the middle of the night:
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New reading stack just arrived.

Left stack is for work. Right one is for pleasure.

Which 2 should I begin with?

New reading stack just arrived. Left stack is for work. Right one is for pleasure. Which 2 should I begin with?
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🚨 Dream Job Alert

I'm hiring for writers and sales leaders in the US. Check out the details for both roles below.

Shoot me a DM with your resume and a couple of quick lines on why you're a good fit if you're interested!

🚨 Dream Job Alert I'm hiring for writers and sales leaders in the US. Check out the details for both roles below. Shoot me a DM with your resume and a couple of quick lines on why you're a good fit if you're interested!
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The rule of 5:

You can be as knowledgable as the top 20% of the people working in a field just by reading the top 5 books or research papers in that field.

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Hot take: AI could put 90% of graphic designers out of a job.

And this isn't an exaggeration. According to a recent report from ARK Invest, AI image generation models have reduced the cost and time required to produce an image by over 99%.

This is backed up by my personal…

Hot take: AI could put 90% of graphic designers out of a job. And this isn't an exaggeration. According to a recent report from ARK Invest, AI image generation models have reduced the cost and time required to produce an image by over 99%. This is backed up by my personal…
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Lessons I'm learning the hard way:

When it comes to company culture, the most important job of the CEO is to set high standards and enforce them.

If you're willing to tolerate mediocrity in one part of the company, you'll soon be forced to tolerate it across the entire org.

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There's an explosion of newsletters right now. But 95% of these newsletters are probably going to die within the next year.

And that's ok. Building a newsletter organically is learning creatorship on hard mode. And folks who survive this newsletter hype cycle will go on to build…

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Execution and culture are 10x more important than strategy in the early stages of building a company.

It doesn't matter how slick your strategy is if your team can't build something people want to to buy. Besides, whatever strategy you have before figuring out what the customer…

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400,000 readers in 6 months 🚀

Superhuman has hit escape velocity:
• 40 NPS score
• 6-figure monthly revenue
• 65% of ads booked by repeat sponsors

And most of our acquisition is still organic.

Beyond grateful to every single reader for making this miracle a reality 🙌

400,000 readers in 6 months 🚀 Superhuman has hit escape velocity: • 40 NPS score • 6-figure monthly revenue • 65% of ads booked by repeat sponsors And most of our acquisition is still organic. Beyond grateful to every single reader for making this miracle a reality 🙌
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Most AI and ChatGPT features are overhyped but I've been playing with ChatGPT Code Interpreter recently and this thing is incredibly useful.

A lot of this stuff takes months to learn and hours to create in Excel.

You can copy everything I've learned from this sheet I created:

Most AI and ChatGPT features are overhyped but I've been playing with ChatGPT Code Interpreter recently and this thing is incredibly useful. A lot of this stuff takes months to learn and hours to create in Excel. You can copy everything I've learned from this sheet I created:
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This Instagram model makes $10 million a year.

But she's not like all the other IG models.

Lil Miquela posts pictures of herself to her 2 million followers everyday. But she doesn't exist in the real world.

She's at the forefront of the growing artificial influencer movement -…

This Instagram model makes $10 million a year. But she's not like all the other IG models. Lil Miquela posts pictures of herself to her 2 million followers everyday. But she doesn't exist in the real world. She's at the forefront of the growing artificial influencer movement -…
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A thousand years from now, they'll look back at this era of progress and come to the conclusion that books and the invention of the printing press in the 1400s were the most important technological breakthroughs.

A thousand years from now, they'll look back at this era of progress and come to the conclusion that books and the invention of the printing press in the 1400s were the most important technological breakthroughs.
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The killer founding combo of tech startups was a technical cofounder paired with a business cofounder.

The killer founding combo of creator and media startups is a creator cofounder paired with a business operator.

How to become a media startup cofounder:

What you need to know…

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