Matthew Chen
@mlaurencechen
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quant for amazon ads @trylaurence yc w26, prev @google @meta, math+cs @cornell
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Joined September 2025
perpetua, pacvue, and teikametrics simply don't work. outsourced workers copy pasting to and from spreadsheets tanks performance after a few months. @trylaurence lets your brand advertise how hedge funds trade billions: with math and statistics
.@trylaurence automates performance marketing for CPG brands, starting on Amazon. They use reinforcement learning to set bids, budgets, and keyword targets like quant hedge funds trade markets: continuous optimization on autopilot. Congrats on the launch @mlaurencechen and
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.@forumdotmarket is building the first regulated exchange to trade on attention. Go long or short on the popularity of your favorite topics, from Bad Bunny to Claude Code. Congrats on the launch @josephpthomas and @owenbotkin! https://t.co/rWHWZVwXFk
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Arsenal is a CIA experiment to see how far people can be pushed before straight up killing themselves
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update: it's done took a single hour can finally delete all our channels and consolidate our docs into an organizational structure that reflects how we work
it's happening: i'm rebuilding slack internally for @trylaurence because our founding engineer juggling docs to track changes for each of our customers just doesn't scale and having dozens of internal channels for our customer accounts drowns out the genuinely useful Slack
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it's happening: i'm rebuilding slack internally for @trylaurence because our founding engineer juggling docs to track changes for each of our customers just doesn't scale and having dozens of internal channels for our customer accounts drowns out the genuinely useful Slack
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step 1 to becoming a marketing agency: chat shit about cpm
$0.50 cpm is possible if u stop being so fucking anal about never running anything unprofitable
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i asked chatgpt to create a caricature of me and my job and this is what it spat out doing it again tomorrow with claude
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The reason why brands choose @trylaurence to manage their Amazon PPC is dead simple: we are miles better than any other option. Results like these need no explanation: - 4x ROAS - 13% TACOS And we've doubled organic sales at the same time ;)
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current yc founder here- i actually agree with @dagorenouf in a way: it is very easy to make the three mistakes listed but i think any founder who makes those mistakes has a MASSIVE skill issue and are ngmi anyway regardless of yc: 1. any founder that mistakes early customer
I think being into YC is a disadvantage in 2026, hear me out. 1. You get flooded with customers from their network early on and think it’s because your product is amazing, but that’s just because of the YC aura. 2. It lasts for 1 or 2 years during which you make all product and
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half the cars i see in sf rn are waymos. the rest of america is in for a shock when these things go national
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🚀 @trylaurence launched! Automated Amazon AdvertisingAI “Automated Amazon PPC that actually works” 🌐 https://t.co/T3JoEASRs7 Congrats @mlaurencechen & @LGierhake!!
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Laurence Launches: Automated Amazon Advertising
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.@trylaurence automates performance marketing for CPG brands, starting on Amazon. They use reinforcement learning to set bids, budgets, and keyword targets like quant hedge funds trade markets: continuous optimization on autopilot. Congrats on the launch @mlaurencechen and
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@trylaurence in just 3 weeks, @trylaurence has reached 11 million eyeballs on amazon $200k in ad sales generated
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