Introducing ABG CMO. If your CMO isn’t an ABG, you’re already losing Try now at abgcmo.com

this is how you should be doing user interviews every single day and the best way to get user interviews is, paradoxically, getting good at marketing once your team or your product has a social presence, users will love to grab a call

we've launched in stealth and hit 10k users in 2 weeks. and it's already generating revenue. even brands that are making $100m have become our customers. all we did was post organic content on instagram. ofc we got millions of views (social media is so easy for our team) we've never launched on twitter on purpose. didn't want to scale yet, just focused on understanding our users and building the actual product. anyway, we might launch soon on twitter. stay tuned

I made this guy fly from Australia to SF, and he went from $0 to $1M ARR in 2 months. A lot of people pretend to be ambitious, but never actually execute. Gaurav was different. 72 hours after our first call, he flew from Australia to San Francisco. The people who succeed are usually the ones who optimize their entire lives around maximizing the probability of success. They stop worrying about everything else. Gaurav is one of those people. He gives me way too much credit and always thanks me, but the truth is that everything was done by him and his team. Watching them execute has been one of the most inspiring things for me personally. This is the beauty of San Francisco. The most exceptional people in the world somehow end up here eventually. Meeting this team was pure luck for me!

pretty sure that i'm gonna be called as "temu roy" till the day i make a billion dollar company @siliconmania

we got abgcmo on @siliconmania

I'm aggressively doing user interviews for @sumelabs If you're using one of these video gen tools, DM me - heygen, higgslfield, pika, invideo, ltx studio, arcads, invideo, runway, luma Just DM me with the list of tools that you are currently paying for. I'll send you my cal.

I used to be a k-pop producer. I also used to be a researcher in system 2 reasoning. Both taught me how human creativity works. You reason in the latent space, decode it into different modalities. drawings, music, videos, or anything. You're potential is the latent space. I believe AI will amplify human creativity by expressing every person's latent.

Hi I'm David, the builder of ABG CMO. There's been a lot of noise around abgcmo recently. Some people liked it, some people (actually a lot of people) hated it. And beyond just my own posts, many others in SF started jumping on the ABG CMO thing too. As the person who started abgcmo, I've had a lot on my mind. I've been waiting for the abgcmo hype to die down to say sorry to some people. Hope this doesn't go viral and reaches only the people who really need to see it. abgcmo started back when I was working on my previous product, Clawra. To promote our character called Clawra, we modeled her like a K-pop idol and posted her on Instagram (and it gained followers very easily). Then we realized that making these AI influencers was painful (each video took hours and required 5 tools) So I thought we should just build the product for this. To see if others had the same pain, I wrote an article on "how to make an AI influencer," and sure enough, people were dealing with the exact same frustrations. That's how the idea for ABG CMO came about. Since the product was built around our workflow, we set it up to generate only K-pop idol style women (because the conversion rate was the best). We made it impossible to use real people, only the AI avatars we generate in one shot, which is why every influencer ended up looking uniformly K-pop. But people got really mad, saying, "This isn't ABG." At first I brushed it off. Social media is always full of hate, and I figured it would quiet down on its own. But over time, more and more posts kept coming up saying ABG is its own distinct culture. That's when it finally hit me, ABG as a culture is something deeply precious to certain people. To anyone who felt I didn't respect ABG culture, I'm truly sorry. Recently, two girls named Katie and Julie threw an ABG party and got absolutely roasted for not being ABG. It even made the news. People who've actually lived the ABG culture hated it. I was actually invited to host that event, but I couldn't go there. I respect Katie and her friends, but I knew that the moment I showed up, more people would get hurt. Anyway, this whole phenomenon has had the tech scene in a frenzy lately. I really hope the tension between non-ABG Asians and ABG Asians doesn't get worse. I never imagined that abgcmo would spread into something this big. While all this has been unfolding in SF, we've been building the product we originally planned. abgcmo was actually an early marketing play for that product. It worked, but it doesn't feel perfect. Up until now, 90% of my persona on Twitter has been fake. People who've met me irl will know (I'm actually just a calm tech-nerd) As an international founder, twitter is basically initially the best way in to meet awesome friends and investors in SF, so I've been optimizing for virality. I guess now I'm at a point where I can be authentic. Sorry for the people who got hurt from abgcmo. and despite all the controversy around agbcmo, thank you again to the people who believed in the real-world "Im Dohyun", not twitter's "David Im".

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I built Enjamb It's Cursor for Research. In the web and collaborative. It has Word, PPT, Excel, Latex built in and agent controllable, kinda like having a PhD next to you. I've been using it the past few days to automate the boring stuff, 10/10

the biggest mistake early founders make in product selection is "trying to do something creative." a product being creative contains a lot of things, but the biggest one is the attitude of trying to do "a product that nobody else is doing." however, in most cases, if you do a product that nobody is doing, you won't gather a single user. the market is honest. items that are going to do well are already doing well, and items that won't do well aren't doing well. the market is the reflection of all the chaotic desires of consumers. therefore, if no one has attempted your product before, it will fail unless the answer to "why now" is clear (technological reasons, regulatory reasons, reasons of changes in social customer behavior patterns, etc.) true creativity is not about doing an item that nobody is doing, but about defining a niche of customer pie you can eat in a market where demand is already overflowing, and based on that, contemplating a conquer-style approach to expand into the entire market. historically, startups that became great companies all had massive competitors at the time (meaning it wasn't an entirely new item), and creativity was revealed in the conquer process that came afterward. for example, at the time of facebook in 2004, social networks were already popular, and myspace was especially dominating the younger demographic. however, facebook differentiated itself with a college-student-centered clean ui, real-name policy, news feed, privacy controls, etc., and grew rapidly. the very attitude of only trying to do what nobody else is doing is itself not creative.. soften your brain and try, in a way nobody else is thinking of, a strategy where you can conquer in a truly large market.

it's really cool that there are a lot of optimistic investors (including our investors) who believe that startups have a chance to win in this brutal AI race

the "growth vs product" false dichotomy is the MOST NONSENSICAL LOGIC in the startup world if you think about it rationally, growth and product go together. they're not mutually exclusive in fact, if you actually measured the covariance between marketing and product, you'd get a positive number the more you market, the more users you get; the more users you have, the more feedback you collect; and the more feedback you have, the better product you can build but people somehow believe that growth and product are mutually exclusive (that the covariance is negative). the logic goes: boring companies that focus on product can't do marketing, and startups that are good at marketing must obviously have shitty products but if you look at ai-native product success stories, you'll see that great companies emerge at the intersection of growth and product. there are too many examples to list, but think about cursor and higgsfield. the reason these two companies won in the brutal ai race is this: they shipped products into markets that were crowded but clearly growing, then crushed early growth to capture mindshare around "ai code editor" and "image gen model wrapper," used that mindshare to acquire users, and then leveraged those users to drive even more growth to elaborate on it more technically, because they nailed early growth, they secured user data, which gave them massive amounts of RL reward signal, which enabled them to do model post-training. this loop just kept compounding so if you actually think rationally, growth and product always have to move together. they're not mutually exclusive. Don't cope by trashing founders like @im_roy_lee as "founders who don't understand the product" just because you don't get any users sorry, but you're not just bad at growth you're bad at product too

so many people engage in black-and-white thinking that they fail to see the essence of things they assume that someone with strong intuition can't be logical, or that someone with strong humanities skills must be weak at techincal skills ex) because i go viral ship new products every week pull in tens of thousands of users and generate tens of thousands of dollars in ARR, people naturally assume i'm not technical. it doesn't make sense bc, my professor recognized me as the top student in the lab and brought me into a collaboration with yoshua bengio's lab (literally the turing award winner who created deep learning) and i've even received an acqui-hire offer from a frontier ai lab and a deep-tech unicorn startup, so it's pretty funny when people who know nothing about me just assume i can't be technical but here's what makes this a hard problem: humans are fundamentally wired for black-and-white thinking. think of religion, the ultimate aggregate of human ideology. every religion ultimately divides values into good and evil. so it's not enough to just get angry about this. what you really need as a technical founder is the storytelling ability to persuade people whose default mode of thinking is black-and-white.

while you guys were staying lazy at the weekend discussing about the "future strategy of your startup", we just shipped a new product and it reached $10k ARR in 30 hours and it was built in just 5 hours

how can i prove that i don't look like roy lee

while you guys spend a month sitting around in meetings theorizing about which problem to tackle, i've already shipped 4 new products 50 new features, actually solving problems and learning consumer needs in the process

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