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John Hu @JayHoovy
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John Hu
@JayHoovy
5 Oct 2020
0/ At 19, I locked in a Goldman Sachs Investment Banking offer. I was an immigrant kid with zero connections. This is how I did it. A thread 👇👇
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Just loaded up a new Robinhood account with $10,000. What should I buy?
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Peter H. Diamandis, MD
@PeterDiamandis
Jun 13
Pessimists sound smart.  Optimists build the world.
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Elon hitting trillionaire status and sending us to space is a 4-minute mile moment for Founders everywhere. Anything is possible y’all. Build your dreams.
Robert Sterling
@RobertMSterling
Jun 12
> you’ll never start a rocket company > you’ll never build your own engines > you’ll never be able to use off-the-shelf parts > you’ll never survive three launch failures > you’ll never reach orbit > you’ll never win NASA’s trust > you’ll never launch cargo to the ISS > you’ll never compete with Boeing > you’ll never compete with Lockheed > you’ll never make rockets reusable > you’ll never land a rocket vertically > you’ll never land one on a drone ship > you’ll never reuse a booster > you’ll never fly the same booster 10 times > you’ll never fly the same booster 20 times > you’ll never fly the same booster 30 times > you’ll never recover and reuse the fairing > you’ll never lower launch costs > you’ll never launch every month > you’ll never launch every week > you’ll never launch multiple times a week > you’ll never carry astronauts > you’ll never replace Roscosmos > you’ll never fly civilians to orbit > you’ll never manufacture satellites at scale > you’ll never build the biggest constellation ever > you’ll never make satellite internet work > you’ll never make satellite internet fast > you’ll never make satellite internet affordable > you’ll never serve rural customers > you’ll never serve aircraft and ships > you’ll never build a methane rocket engine > you’ll never make full-flow staged combustion work > you’ll never build the most powerful rocket ever > you’ll never build a rocket bigger than Saturn V > you’ll never build it out of stainless steel > you’ll never launch Starship > you’ll never separate Super Heavy and Starship > you’ll never relight Raptor in space > you’ll never bring Super Heavy back > you’ll never catch a booster with Mechazilla tower arms > you’ll never launch 85% of mass to orbit worldwide > you’ll never change the economics of space > you’ll never force the entire industry to copy you > you’ll never win > you’ll never IPO   Congratulations to @elonmusk and the SpaceX team. You did what countless people said was impossible, and you did it time and time again.   Today is your day. You deserve this. May it be a glorious one.
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5 books I wish I'd read before starting Stan, my $40M business: 1. Scaling People by Claire Hughes Johnson (would've saved me from every management mistake I made from employee 10 to 30) 2. Traction by Gino Wickman (will teach you how to build an 'operating rhythm' that gets you out of the day-to-day so you can focus on growth) 3. Get Scalable by Ryan Deiss (will teach you how to scale yourself out of a job and train your team properly so you don't have to be in the room) 4. Unreasonable Hospitality by Will Guidara (will teach you the small details that get you to a top 1% customer experience) 5. High Growth Handbook by Elad Gil (will teach you the basics of fundraising, hiring and selling) Every founder learns these lessons eventually. I learned them the hard way through experience 🙃 Read these books and don't be me lol
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The Founder's Experience: Pushing yourself to a level even you didn't think you were capable of. Keep going.
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The Founder's Experience: Getting wrecked on one call, taking a breath, shaking it off, and hopping on your next call with a smile.
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This is my recommended book list for any new Founder: Scaling to >$10M: - Get Scalable by Ryan Deiss - Traction by Gino Wickman - Scaling People by Claire Hughes Johnson - High Growth Handbook by Elad Gil Product: - Hooked by Nir Eyal Sales: - Unreasonable Hospitality by Will Guidara Classics: - Zero to One by Peter Thiel - Lean Startup by Eric Ries - Navalmanack Podcasts: - Founders by David Senra - Acquired by Ben Gilbert & David Rosenthal - 20VC by Harry Stebbings This list is intentionally small. You don't need much more than this. Let your curiosity hunger carry you into more (Founder biographies, deeper tactical books, etc)...
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Everything we shipped this week for our AI Content Agent that's going to change the game: 1 - Stanley now lives in your iMessage. No new app to download. Text him anytime, and he texts you back. 2 - My favorite: voice notes. Walking home? Got 5 minutes? Brain dump your day, and Stanley packages your ideas into content in YOUR voice, for any platform. 3 - He emoji reacts to you. Sends hearts when you've built real camaraderie. Confetti when you post. (It's delightful, I promise.) 4 - Huge upgrades to our AI auto editor. JT Barnett, one of the top entrepreneurs out there, said it was absolutely sick. 5 - Rituals: Stanley checks in after your meetings and drafts content ideas on the spot, while everything's still fresh. 6 - A content calendar idea bank. Stanley now schedules AND posts on your behalf. For every single platform. A million-dollar content team in your pocket. Exclusive access drops in about a month, and the beta list is going to be tight. Reply with "WAITLIST" and I'll make sure you're first in line!
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Mads
@madsf88
Jun 3
stanley launch event last night was absolutely incredible. groundbreaking. revolutionary. i am a changed woman. (this tweet was written by stanley)
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New York! WE'RE GIVING AWAY FREE KNICKS TICKETS!!! 🚨🏀 All you have to do is find Stanley - he'll be showing up at random events throughout NYTW. If you take a photo with him, post it on X or LinkedIn with your top takeaways / learnings from NYTW, tag us or use #stanleyinnyc, you'll be entered to win. We've got 4 total, but based off demand, we're happy to up that number! A fun way to convince you to start building in public and share your story! So the question is: Where will Stanley be??? See you soon!!
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Free Knicks Tickets?????
Anson Lin
@ansonlin
Jun 2
New York Tech Week! we're giving away FREE Knicks Finals tickets!! 🏀 All you have to do is find Stanley (our big blue circle mascot). He’ll be showing up at random events throughout NYTW. Find him, grab a selfie, and send it to him (scan the qr code 0:29) to be entered to win 2 tickets. Post your selfie on X for an extra entry. The hunt is on. We've got 4 tickets to give away. Come find us 👀
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The Founder's Experience: Constantly flipping between "everything is falling apart" and absolute conviction that "we're gonna make it".
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Andrew Yeung
@andruyeung
May 31
I visited the @stanforcreators team in Toronto last week. They hit $40M ARR in 5 years and have built one of the strongest startup cultures I've seen. The subtle indicators of a world-class startup culture: – The entire office shows up to watch and support the founder speak on stage – Employees post on their personal social accounts about their work, unprompted – Everyone I spoke with was fired up, engaged, and sincerely invested in their work – The way they ran the open house: constantly in sync, in flow with how they engaged attendees, no friction anywhere – Both founders are insanely humble for the scale they're at A great case study for other startups at this stage.
Emily Talas
@emtalas
May 30
anytime @vitaliidodonov has a speaking engagement, you’ll usually find the entire team sitting in the audience
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New York! I'd love to meet you this Tuesday!! We're bringing together 100 Creator-Entrepreneurs: Founders, Creators, Operators, and Builders to network and share what you've been working on. My favorite part about Stan has always been the rockstar community we bring together - genuinely passionate, good hearted people who are so excellent that you leave with a pep in your step. I'd absolutely love to see you there! And you'll get a sneak peek of our newest version of Stanley, our AI Head of Content before anyone else ;) RSVP here: luma.com/wyrt2lo5
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The Founder's Experience: Building something you'd die for while wondering if it's slowly killing you.
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Those who think they can and those who think they can’t are both right. Make sure you hire the former. And stay far away from the latter.
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If there's any reason why I'm grateful for the struggle - It is this:
Atlas Press
@realAtlasPress
May 27
Carl Jung, this line may contain the most wisdom in the fewest words ever
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These 6 rules changed the game for us - hoping they help you in your journey! I know all this AI stuff is overwhelming - I constantly feel like I’m drinking from a firehose, and always behind. But what I’ve learned is that it’s critical to just put one step in front of the other, and improve everyday. My hope is that you can take a bit of these tactics (as well as the broader mental model implied) to implement in your own company, to not only accelerate yourself but also your team into making this existential jump. Wishing you all the best!
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The emotional rollercoaster we experience as founders is insane. On the one hand, you’re stressed about your company going under, whether you’re going to make payroll. You’re sprinting to launch a new product, but you have no idea if it will be done in time. But at the same time, it’s weirdly FUN. You see the vision. You’re starting to get traction on customer calls after weeks of struggling. “I like that I can just send it stuff.” “This is so cool.” “Oh, I love this!” You can see how if you get super lucky, and work super hard, you might be able to thread the needle. But by the end of that string of calls, even though they’re going well, you realize your day has just started, and you’re so exhausted. Then you show up at an event and need to be “ON” the whole time, making sure your customers and your team are happy. At the end of it all, you breathe a huge sigh and you just say to yourself, “Damn. What a job.” I’ve learned that this is the Founder’s job. And I'm writing this now at 11:00 at night, where I'm just now getting home so I can start my work for the day. Alone. In the dark. In NYC. Figuring out what the hell we need to do to make sure that we can save this company and get it to the next level. This is day 6 of trying to get my $40M company to the $100M level. See you tomorrow for Day 7.
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I have 30 days to build a $1B company. Today is Day 5, and I had the best day of the sprint… until I didn't. Here's what happened: I spent all of last week hustling just to get potential customers on calls. Yesterday, I finally got them. And the first few calls? → "Oh hell yes, these are great." → "Dude, this is pretty good." → "That's sick. This is a big idea." I'm sitting there like, “Holy sh*t, we're striking gold!” 😳 Then my next calls happened. And they were just… meh. 6 out of 10s. Same Stanley. Same demo. Different reaction. See, here's the thing about building $1B company: You don't get there by having a product that's "good enough." You get there by building something that's a 12 out of 10. Where people walk away SO blown away that they tell every single one of their friends. If we can't figure out how to make sure that EVERYONE who walks through the door gets that “eureka” magic moment on day 1… We'll never make it. Every future plan we have is bottlenecked on this single step: Product-Market Fit. Not "kinda works." Not "they liked it." The EUREKA moment. So all of next week, @vitaliidodonov and I have ONE job: → Figure out what made the 8.5 calls different from the 6/10 calls → Reverse engineer the workflow that creates the magic moment → Build a Day 1 experience for Stanley that absolutely blows our customers’ minds Here's what I'm learning the hard way: ✅ Talking to customers is Step 1 ✅ Getting positive feedback feels great… ✅ But the gap between "good" and "magic" is where billion-dollar companies live A 6/10 product gets you to $40M. A 12/10 product gets you to $1B. There is no shortcut. You either find the eureka moment for every user on day one… or you flatline. So now we get back to work, hunting for what makes the difference. — Posted via Stanley 2.0, exclusive access only.
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