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Founder of @sculptaiapp ex: SignalFNF & Gravity Proxies

New York, USA
Joined May 2018
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I started my first company at 13 selling proxies to sneaker botters by 20 I was a CTO. never took a cs class. here's how it happened 🧵
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I had my first $50K MRR company at 17 from reselling sneakers. I thought that meant I knew how to build a business. It meant I knew how to catch a wave. @sculptaiapp isn't where I want it to be yet, but I'm not stopping until we build the best training app in the world. Stay tuned big updates coming soon
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Adrian Kehlmann retweeted
I think this is what started the journey for a lot of legends in the sneaker twitter / resell space 😂 Crazy how one little exploit could inspire people to do so many more ambitious and creative things from full aio bots to now building huge million/billion dollar start ups Startups are really asking potential hires if they were apart of sneaker reselling as a prereq 😂 Saw someone predict this would be like a bigger version of the paypal mafia and I couldnt agree more Especially the bot developers pushing updates minutes before a huge drop under all that pressure... nothing in silicon valley can compare to this. I really think some of the most important people from this generation will have had some involvement in this community. We will see in a few decades future founders talking on podcasts about security bypasses and exploits like location spoofing for stashes to make some money as kids If u were apart of this, congrats. You are special. Not every single kid was. Only the ambitious and hungry
he deadass believe half the community came from keith
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Wow if you are a true OG in the proxy game you remember Thrace selling stolen subnets to all the top proxy companies…
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@WashedUpRei @nickfromstat you guys remember this? 😭
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We are so back
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Is sneaker twitter really back? Anyone still remember SignalFNF? @LookItsDyl sent me a reminder this morning Miss you guys shoot a DM if you want to reconnect in NYC or SF
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New banner, nano banana
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Adrian Kehlmann retweeted
You have no experience. You’ve never started a company. You’ve never had a full time job. Nike is going to kill you. You’re a kid. You don’t have technical skills. You shouldn’t build hardware. Apple is going to kill you. You can’t build hardware. You can’t measure heart rate non-invasively. Athletes don’t care about recovery. Under Armour is going to kill you. It won’t be accurate. You don’t listen. You’re an ineffective leader. You can’t recruit great talent. You’re going to have to pay every athlete. You can’t measure sleep non-invasively. It’s too expensive to research. Athletes are a small market. The product costs too much to make. The product costs too much to sell. Your valuation is too high. Consumers aren’t going to want it. Hardware is too hard. You should measure steps. Fitbit is going to kill you. You can’t build a marketing engine. You can’t raise enough money. You need a real CEO. Google is going to kill you. You can’t be a subscription. You can’t build a brand. You can’t do consumer in Boston. Your valuation is too high. You shouldn’t make accessories. You shouldn’t make apparel. Lululemon is going to kill you. You can’t predict Covid. Stay in your niche. You are going to run out of money. You can’t build a health platform. Amazon is going to kill you. You can’t measure blood pressure. You can’t get medical approvals. The market is too small. You don’t understand AI. The market is too competitive. It won’t work internationally. The supply chain is too complicated. You can’t build an AI. You can’t raise enough money. It’s too competitive. Healthcare isn’t going to want it. … Just keep going ✌️
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Somewhere in 2020 I got tired of paying devs to build my own ideas So I just learned myself. youtube, html, css, js. applied everything directly to something live. Built a supreme checkout extension at 15. $20k profit in 3 months.
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some things worked. a lot didn't. wrote the full story here: adriankehlmann.com/story
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A story in two parts
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Adrian Kehlmann retweeted
The time has come...EARN ON AUTOPILOT I have spent the last week or so building a tool that legit prints TikTok slideshows for my app, Sculpt AI, out of thin air One button press, post to TikTok, and I will pay you $1 per 1k views the video gets Comment "Sculpt" below for access (I will send you a DM with the website and an invite to the campaign to start earning + FREE LIFETIME ACCESS TO OUR APP)
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We finally did it. I’m extremely proud of the team for getting it done. Big things coming soon 📈
March 2024 we started building. Today we launch. 4 versions. 4 full rebuilds. No shortcuts. Sculpt takes your training, nutrition, and recovery and builds a fitness plan that actually adapts to you. Every set. Every rep. Every meal. Live on iOS. apps.apple.com/us/app/sculpt…
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