Sam Parr

This is a really good thread. Great great writing. 

More of this. I love. 

Now I’m buying this stuff. https://t.co/hCE0YhMgBW

I saw a famous YouTuber crying his eyes out in a thumbnail

I clicked

He's notorious for calling out fake sales claims

Here, he tests $4K headphones said to play music so intensely they make you involuntarily cry. He roasts 'em.

Then 11min later, he cries. Why do they work? 🧵 https://t.co/ftLMEdthtm

Storyteller at https://t.co/LzP2yuIl81. 
Startup investor at https://t.co/pMUXkEiv3f. 
Great book highlights at https://t.co/6LyabD1EO2.

Julian Shapiro

I want less biz content and more this. Who’s good follow

Owned The Hustle https://t.co/cUOYQasCri. Acquired by @HubSpot. Tweet weekly about cool business ideas. My First Million podcast. @hamptonfounders

This is so typical. 

A woman founds a cool startup. It’s the hottest thing going. Media builds her and the company up. 

Then, once it gets too popular, the media destroys the company over tiny, nitpicky crap. 

Shameful. 

https://t.co/iPbKWbfsTI

Happened with Away travel because the female founder told employees to work hard. Many other examples.

Kudos to Chief for building something cool. 

Don’t let this nonsense stop you.

Owned The Hustle https://t.co/cUOYQasCri. Acquired by @HubSpot. Tweet weekly about cool business ideas. My First Million podcast.

UFC tonight. Picks:

Pereira (think he can pull an upset! but not likely)
Zhang, easy
Poirier
Gutierre
Hooker

All favs (i think) except Pereira.

Owned The Hustle (https://t.co/cUOYQatagQ). Sold it @HubSpot. Tweet weekly about cool business ideas. My First Million podcast. Losing another 5 lbs this month

Andrew Wilkinson

So @awilkinson is guilting me into coming to Victoria. 

FINE.

I wanna see nature stuff and Vancouver. Will make weekend trip out of it.

What's the prettiest, coolest stuff to do?

@awilkinson Rumors are the @SahilBloom is coming

Anyone in Austin have a cool office that I can work out of from time to time?

Wanna be around people I dig (vs a coworking space!).

OK, @SaraSodineParr and I are taking our talents to @triplewhale

Tinkering with Slack as a community platform. 

One thing I cannot figure out: how to automatically send a DM to new people as they join.

You can do a bot, yes. But I want it to be a DM from me to the new member directly.

Ideas?

Update: used Threado. Works great. https://t.co/asimMiENmc

Elon Musk

I just don’t wanna read or talk about @elonmusk and his plans for twitter anymore. 

It’s a neat story. But..I just don’t give a shit anymore. 

I love soap operas. But ready for new stories.

Ok now I’m gonna go back to insta looking at videos of dogs and ripped people lifting weights.

Owned The Hustle (https://t.co/cUOYQasCri). Sold it @HubSpot. Tweet weekly about cool business ideas. My First Million podcast. Losing another 5 lbs this month

Have been researching communities. 

Haven't found many examples of a community that members love (aka low churn) that also raised VC.

Why: VC forces scale fast. For communities, that means "go make 2 good friends this week. Next week do 19. Then next month, 50"

Very tough.

A great community, I imagine, grows slow at first. But once it really jives, you start adding new members slowly. Can eventually pick up pace. 

But once its built, its super, super hard to destroy. Making it a great business.

But community, and maybe even media businesses as well: raising VC I think will have a negative impact to the experience (in most, not all cases). 

Raising VC for media, that's almost always stupid. Now I think maybe same for communities.

Have good examples where i'm wrong?

My boy dressed as a lion. https://t.co/2lOnJZlEAC

Hanging with the cows at my ranch. https://t.co/rhYrLhexb7

ha, for the people who asked:

1. @UnboundMerino shirt 
2. carhart pants
3. vans. 

SIMPLE

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