半年ぶりくらいに広告出るタイプのソシャゲしたら広告いくら待っても閉じられず、AppStoreに飛ばされ困った 一度OPENStoreをタップし、出てきたポップアップを消して少し待つとやっと✕が出てきた こういう閉じるのに手間掛かる広告って悪質だな…

OpenStore shut down and is no longer in operation. Should make it red…

I'm convinced that adding "Open-" to your company name instantly 10x's your odds of success. OpenAI OpenEvidence OpenTable OpenRouter OpenCode OpenDoor OpenGov OpenWeb OpenText OpenView OpenSea OpenStore OpenFX OpenSpace OpenArt OpenHands OpenPipe OpenNote

The aggregator that was snatching up Shopify brands left and right in 2021 just imploded 🤯 OpenStore went from one of the fastest-growing rollups in ecommerce to a full unwind. At its peak, it was valued at ~$1B and aggressively acquired DTC brands with “instant cash” offers at inflated multiples. Fast forward: $50M valuation (On their main brand Jack Archer) 40 brands shut down (Or divested) Inventory being liquidated All in just a few years. When buyers overpay, cut corners on integration, and rely on cheap capital, it works… until it doesn’t.

April has been a crazy talent acquisition month for us, and this last week was no exception. Some of our latest adds include: - Head of AI Implementation @ Openstore - Creative Strategy Lead @ O Positiv - Paid Social Strategist @ Ritual - Social Media Manager @ Liquid Death We're on a mission to find, vet, and curate the best talent in e-commerce. While other staffing agencies and talent marketplace charge a criminal % markup and/or commission, we charge $0. What you pay = what talent gets paid. DM me if you want to check it out.

Thrilled to be partnering with Brandon and Emerson. From my time at OpenStore, I saw how fragmented and dated creative storage solutions are. AI is drastically lowering to cost of producing creative and Shade is the modern solution. Let’s go!

おはようございます 新作ゲーム 一億円コンビニ 遊び方 最初にストアのレベルを2、店員のレベルを2にする 7000円ほど掛かるけど STOCK出来る商品の数が5から15になりますそれで商品仕入れ（STOCKから行う）してからOPENSTORE（開店）を押すと自動的に人がやってきて何かを買っていく アップデートしてないので時間表示と年数が無い 一応は年間の売り上げ一億円を目指すゲームなのに……。 web.rezona.ai/share/game/NjM…

"Maybe the fact that everyone was sending me death threats is actually why I should double-click into this idea." @daraladje on what led him to build @withdelphi: "I had a very specific idea of what I needed to do next. I wanted to find a co-founder, and I wanted a mentor. I wanted to see what great looks like." "I moved to Miami to work for Keith Rabois at OpenStore. Six months in, I built a bot of Tony Fadell because we were reading Build in our book club. And I was like, 'This is a lot cheaper than last time.'" "A learning lesson from Keith: he only invests in companies where the majority of people laugh at him. Every category that was new, people thought was weird. Airbnb, Uber. By the time people think it's normal, by the time there's a market map, it's too late." "It's up to me to will it into existence. A month before ChatGPT came out, I left OpenStore and started Delphi."

New Worldbuilders episode is live 🌐 I first met @daraladje in the middle of COVID. He was tinkering on ideas, hadn't found the thing yet. Since then he's built and sold his first startup, joined OpenStore to learn from Keith Rabois, and started @withdelphi — a platform that lets you create a digital version of your mind and what I call a "post-skeuomorphic" app in this age of AI. Dara spent a full year building a product no one wanted. He got hate on Twitter when he first showed the grandfather prototype. He could have pivoted — dozens of companies have tried Delphi's idea and given up within months. He didn't. His thesis is that when knowledge is commoditized, what you can't compete with is trust and identity. Delphi is his bet that humans still matter — that individual perspective is the thing AI can't replace. We talked about why he chose LLMs over crypto, what it was like selling his first startup and joining OpenStore to find a mentor, the four micro-pivots that shaped Delphi, and why he sees digital minds as a new form of media. Full episode below!

New Worldbuilders episode is live. @sumeet724 sits down with @daraladje, Co-Founder and CEO of @withdelphi. Delphi lets you create a digital version of your mind – an interactive presence that can share your knowledge and represent you at scale. The company raised $16M in a Series A led by Sequoia. Before Delphi, Dara built and sold Friday, a text-based commerce tool, within a year. The idea started with Dara's grandfather. He'd had a stroke and couldn't be asked questions directly. After reading Kurzweil's How to Create a Mind, Dara used GPT-3 to build a digital version of him – and realized the insight wasn't what the clone said, but that it came from someone he trusted. "Delphi kind of makes humans the main characters again, where AI is the main character right now." "No one wanted our product. It was really painful. You just have to continue. And survive." They cover why he chose LLMs over crypto, Dara selling his first startup and joining OpenStore to find a mentor, the micro-pivots that shaped Delphi, and why trust is the thing AI can't commoditize. Full episode below.

Def not direct sales. I’ve sold maybe like $10k of $500 phone calls on x over like 5 years It’s def meeting clients, and opportunities through DMs Like I bought a hearing aid brand from someone I met on x in a dm, we 8x the biz in like 11 months and sold it to openstore in under a year. That was about $1M deal after debt etc And then sales I’ve driven through newsletters in the past, that I know the signup came from social

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I've had 9 careers and I'm 37. Every single one was a choice. At 17 I was an affiliate marketer. Built a small affiliate network and sold it to a guy I met at a conference. At 21 I dropped out of college to become a nightclub promoter. Spent the next 5 years standing on banquettes and partying for a living. At 26 I moved to Malaysia and started mentoring at tech accelerators. Talked my way into gigs with McKinsey and got invited to London to mentor startups at Google Launchpad. At 28 a friend convinced me to stop managing social media for brands and build a financial news platform instead. At 32 I sold it to a roll up that went public, broke up with my girlfriend, and moved to LA. At 33 I acquired a DTC brand, scaled it 8x, and it became the first acquisition by OpenStore. At 34 I went full workshop mode advising on small business acquisitions. At 36 brief stint as CMO of an equity crowdfunding portal. At 37 I'm advising companies on implementing AI. People spend their whole lives waiting for permission to do something different. Just…do it If you're reading this thinking "must be nice" ... it is. But it's available to you too. The only thing separating you from a completely different life is the willingness to actually go do it.

These are great lists. With AI now, it's very easy to analyze past predictions like this. I had my open claw analyze all the startups on the 2024 list by @thogge and 43% had a negative event categorized as a down round, layoffs, shutdowns, or seem stagnant. (No jab here, just was interested in how these actually turn out) Down Rounds: Canva ($65B → $42B), OpenStore ($970M → $50M), Stability AI ($1B → $158M), Blackbuck (−35% ahead of IPO), Bittensor, Solugen Shutdowns / Near-Shutdowns: Seis (shut down Jan 2026), Quince (looming bankruptcy threat reported Feb 2026) Layoffs: Alma (9%), Astranis, Drata (16%), EvenUp, Medely (multiple rounds), Pivot Bio, Redpanda (13%), Rippling, Rula, Silo (30%), True Anomaly (25%), Unit (15%), Viz ai (13%) Stagnant / No New Funding: Material Security, Medely, Modern Treasury, Pivot Bio, Silo, SiteRX, Virta Health, Viz ai Someone should create easy to comprehend index of startup predictions vs how they played out and why. Happy to share raw data.

trying to calculate which two guys at OpenStore Keith considers certifiably yoked

I once took a date to the Openstore offices in Miami. She saw Keith Rabois yelling at a reporter on a video conference. The sheer sight of it all made her orgasm uncontrollably.

To be fair, Rabois has his hands full with the runaway success of Openstore

Anytime he tweets, just look up OpenStore or 2020 migration to Miami.