Last week my little business empire crossed $300K in monthly revenue. I ran zero paid ads, built a community of 14 million and operate at a 60%+ margin. Here are the 8 steps of my soulful journey: Hope it's helpful to someone. [🧵 thread]

I founded ButcherBox, a brand that does $500m+ in annual sales. A few thoughts on starting a business:

Working at @JoinOpenStore sometimes feels like free business school Some recent learnings from eng lunches with Keith Rabois ...

believing what everyone else believes and doing what everyone else tells you to do leads to a very mediocre place. it's amazing to me how much you can figure out on your own with a tight learning/iterating feedback loop. it's a real shame how much school teaches the opposite!

19 genius business threads this week (to get you ahead of 95% of your friends):

21 one-time decisions that will 10x your productivity (not joking):

Revenue and income are NOT the same thing Costs and expenses are NOT the same thing Net income and free cash flow are NOT the same thing Confused? Here's a quick breakdown:

What lesson took you the longest to unlearn?

Slides from my Twitter company talk

A coming wave of disruptive companies will be built by layering domain expertise over GPT3. The best of these will: - solve complex problems, not just automate simple tasks. - be exceptionally nimble - evolving as fast as the underlying AI does. - use usage as a metric, not

Just registered to attend Angel.University taught by @jason LAUNCH 🔥. A 3-hour workshop to learn how to become a professional angel investor.

Learn With Me I’m often asked how I quickly synthesize information and form opinions. The value, to me, of doing this can be summarized as follows: - Be more informed about technology, markets and the economy. - Improve my situational awareness about trends and competitors. -

Highly recommend watching this talk by Andrej Karpathy to build an understanding of how LLMs work youtube.com/watch?v=zjkBMF…

I just signed up for LAUNCH Public Demo Day on Wednesday, February 21st to see @jason's seven latest investments 🦄 RSVP at launch.co/live

Naval Ravikant: Hire high-agency people “[Hire] people who just solve problems without even being asked to solve the problem—they identify the problem, they go solve it, they don’t even necessarily have to update you every step of the way, they’re not asking silly questions, and

Startups and their investors create the jobs and innovation that support and delight non-entrepreneurs

Lots of early-stage companies get stuck between servicing mass-market SMBs and larger Enterprise customers, and it causes them a lot of pain. If you can sign Enterprise customers, there's a bunch of stuff you don't really ever need to automate. Onboarding and customer service

The Week in Supply Chain Insights: What Just Happened in the Last 7 days? open.substack.com/pub/nicholasiv…