Every overlooked kid has a turning point. This was mine.  Asian before BTS. Gay pre Lil Nas X. Bipolar before Kanye. Fatherless without an Uncle Phil.  I grew up navigating mental health, racial identity, sexual identity, the pressure to succeed and the thoughts of wondering

Last week, I shut down my startup, Floodify. Before I get into it, thank you to everyone who followed the journey, believed in us, worked with us, invested in us, or trusted us with their music. We had a crazy run. What started as a thesis around frictionless organic

Me on Friday at @theresidency demo day:

I've posted over 2M videos on TikTok and Instagram, hit $1.5M ARR working with UMG/Sony/Warner, and grew a marketplace to 40k+ creators off $100 ad spend. Starting a Substack for growth and distribution to discuss my learnings. https://t.co/8G4Glf9aw3

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We are excited to announce that @tether, the largest stablecoin company in the world, is making a strategic investment of $200M into Whop, valuing us at $1.6B. Our partnership with Tether marks a major step in building the world's largest internet market. Tether is committed to

The boldest ideas are often misunderstood the most. so many no’s… at first and then it becomes obvious and ppl wish they backed you earlier to all the founders out there chasing bold ideas - we built @theresidency as your home.

Jokes on you because I was literally a SoundCloud rapper in 2016 And then 400M people downloaded my apps Music to founder pipeline is real

using a new llm to ask about yourself is interesting

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I'm getting less bullish on content creation and more bullish on redistributing previous winners just like paid media buyers. The idea of quantity is only relevant with quality.

Hyper-competition on socials forces most creators’ reach to follow a power law distribution. Meaning most founders and growth hires see one viral piece of content in a sea of flops.

We turned down over $50k in sales on our new product launch We haven't been able to do a proper growth operation on the supply side to handle demand But thankfully we've seen huge organic growth We've seen posting volume increase (+213% # of posts WoW & +71% GMV WoW) Been a

In 2000, digital ads were ~$10B in revenue Today they’re $600B+ Why? - Ads became programmatic - Inventory standardized into a liquid asset - Friction died with self-serve platforms Budgets flooded in Same pattern: Uber → unlocked idle drivers → ride TAM tripled Airbnb →

Electric users PMf I swear

i would love to talk to someone that works on bidding or CPM optimization at @applovin if anyone has a connect

Amazon moves ~$1T per year in commerce. $AMZN trades ~$10T per year in stocks and options. Amazon (Marketplace Infrastructure) - Products are different - Pricing is per listing - Volume scales with effort $AMZN - Nasdaq (Exchange Infrastructure) - Assets are