Dylan Allen-Arnegård
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Co-Founder @ Cheers (YC S24) • We help local businesses get recommended by ChatGPT • Utah ➡️ SF
San Francisco, CA
Joined May 2022
couldn't be more proud to announce our new product, Cheers GEO. We help local service businesses (plumbers, electricians, etc.) get recommended on ChatGPT and other LLMs.
you guys, it's just insane how much alpha there is in sticking to one thing for a long time. things @ Cheers were plateauing for a bit, but we just uncovered an insight that's 2.5x'ed our business in 2 months. just passed 30k MRR baby.
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The most under-hyped trait is the ability to energize the people around you & make them smile. Everything in life is better when you make it a little whimsical
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it’s insane to me how much people have changed what counts as “doing well.” Do yourself a favor, ask your grandparents or parents how often they travelled as kids. I talked to my grandma about this recently and they’d MAYBE take a drive to California from Utah once every few
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One of the hardest things in the world is dedicating yourself and your energy to ONE PURPOSE. If you’re anything like me, it’s the moments that you dedicated yourself to just ONE thing where you saw the most growth & progress. Today, we get pulled in every direction
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@bryan_johnson is this the move? Looks like it contains 192 POWERFUL nutrients. You can find it right next to the candy bars in the gas station
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sure, annual contracts are better, but... if you're providing enough value to your customers, they won't *want* to churn after 3 months. Month-to-month contracts assure you actually stay close enough to your customers to build a generational company. Don't think of your
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very genuine question here: have any of you gotten a cold inbound message offering outbound sales services and actually used them? Do they work? I probably get 15 emails a day about this and i've never responded to one, but maybe I'm the exception.
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Throwback to one of our earliest prototypes, a laser engraved NFC card to help smbs get reviews 🥹
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at this point Waymo is just the first class version of Uber.
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what they don’t want you to know is that if you just keep on chugging along, genuinely doing your best and looking outside of yourself for ways to help others, there is NO WAY you won’t have a fulfilling life
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Nobody tells you how satisfying it is to get a (non-tech company) customer to invest in your startup. 🥹
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I wasn’t a big fan of the new(ish) iOS update until I figured out I could filter by unread texts and now I’m a believer
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How long do you guys think it would take me to get a neck as thick as my uncle? (He was a linebacker on the 49ers for 7 seasons)
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“Significant other” is honestly a pretty cool name for a loved one.
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everyone should be MUCH more careful with what content they allow into their brain. I’ve been much more conscious of this for the last 2 weeks and I can’t even begin to explain the difference it’s made across every facet of my life
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Don’t get me wrong, I love seeing investor money drop into our account.. but it’s 10x more satisfying to see money from paying customers customers get deposited 🥹
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it is pretty crazy to me to see the sales strategies of SF based tech cos. Some do it very well. Some do it in such a predatory way I have no idea how they stay in business
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told someone I was mormon (sic) at a founder dinner and they were like “oh NO WONDER you’re so friendly” Pretty crazy reputation for an entire religion to have
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If ur not handwriting notes and sharing your cell phone # with your customers, ur not gonna make it
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Only by diving deep can you earn an insight that’ll create breakout success
@aryavibecoding force yourself to work on an idea for long enough such that you dig in deep and learn something interesting/unexpected, otherwise you will keep pivoting and likely only learn shallow things
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literally all it takes to be a breakout success: just don't stop. don't die. timing matters less when your time horizon is unlimited.
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