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Here is my journey as an entrepreneur so far:
2006 (7 years old) — Cut coconuts off trees and sold them for $.25 each
2010 (12 years old) — Bought my first stock and started daytrading
2016 (17 years old) — Came up with the idea of selling tactical gear online. Launched with $188 and shipped orders from my bedroom
2017 (18 years old) — Started 2 new companies. Rollerblade wheels for office chairs and curated party supply kits. Both failed
2018 (19 years old) — Skipped college to go all in on the tactical brand. Did $1.5m in revenue and thought I was untouchable
2019 (20 years old) — Overhired, overbought inventory and almost went bankrupt. Booked a $100,000 loss.
2020 (21 years old) — Covid hit and online sales boomed. Hit multiple 7-figures in revenue
2021 (22 years old) — Started an electric toothbrush brand. The Kickstarter raised $10,000 but ultimately failed
2022 (23 years old) — Launched a B2B SaaS and co-founded a private founders community
2023 (24/25 years old) — Sold the B2B SaaS for 5-figures, sold the tactical gear brand for 7-figures
2024/25 (26 years old) — Became obsessed with failed payments and launched a B2B SaaS to solve them
The truth is, entrepreneurship is hard.
It’s a rollercoaster of setbacks and breakthroughs.
But I wouldn’t trade it for anything.
Every lesson shaped who I’ve become.
Every failure made the next success possible.
I hope sharing this inspires someone to stop waiting for perfect and just launch.
Because the real magic only happens once you start.
Philip Pages retweeted
If you're not doing something with failed payments, you're missing out on free money.
If you're coming from mobile IAPs to web payments, you're going to get smacked in the face with all the complexity that Apple was just handling for you out of the box.
Thanks @PhilipPages for digging into the messy world of web payments.
AI added too many wrinkles to my forehead, but Phil looks good so it's okay
founder mode Tobi is unbelievably based
he’s in the weeds making decisions and running $160bn company like a startup
we posted a job for an SDR role
100% of applicants blatantly used chatgpt
"let me be precise"
em dashes
"it's not x it's y"
instantly disqualified
we did this in Texas and I was the newspaper shop assistant 😭
Philip Pages retweeted
> No Forbes 30u30
> No faked hype
> No seed fundraise announcement
> No speaking panels
> No Series A announcement
> No paid press articles
> No manufactured launch videos
Turns out you can just build
bruh i just upgraded my mac for the first time since 2020
not upgrading sooner was such a negative EV play
shareholder value in shambles
what a fucking week it's been for the chronically online:
- apple reported their first ever drop in US App Sales (hello web billing)
- headspace acquired for $200m-$300m, down from their peak $3bn valuation in 2021
- prayerlock went viral for getting banned from the App Store (allegedly violating Apple's UX pattern rules)
- apple music is going viral for implementing very similar UX patterns (what's new?)
- the guy who made the post about Apple Music says his app was then banned (probably unrelated)
equality for me, but not for thee
This App does $4M/month and the paywalls look completely against Apple’s subscription guidelines.
I went through the onboarding and immediately saw why it converts.
“1 MONTH FREE” is basically the entire screen.
The €8.99/month you’re actually signing up for after the trial is some of the smallest text on the page.
The family plan is even better:
“1 MONTH FREE” in giant letters.
€14.99/month buried at the bottom.
Apple’s guidelines say the amount that will actually be billed should be the most prominent pricing element.
Here it’s literally the opposite.
FREE is the product.
The real price is the footnote 😭
Every one of these decisions probably converts.
That’s exactly the problem.
The devs following the rules are the ones losing.
this new generation is wild man
i've met so many early 20s hustlers chadscaling saas cos to $800k+ MRR in months
Philip Pages retweeted
This is what it's all about. Awesome.
If you're running on Stripe, make sure you check this out and chat with @PhilipPages
we recovered $267k hiding in a meditation app’s Stripe account, here's the teardown:
+$24k - Enabled card account updater. This is a native setting in Stripe but some apps don’t have it turned on
+$153k - Optimized “insufficient_funds” errors. Stripe was missing a lot of these. We tuned recovery around paydays when customers had funds
+$9k - Enabled network tokens. Another easy Stripe setting that just needed to be flipped on
+$65k - Made it dead simple for customers to fix card issues + locked access until a new card was added
+$16k - Auto-cancelled Early Fraud Warnings (EFWs). These became chargebacks at a 90% rate so they saved a ton on fees + manual work
tobe clear, their growth team had told me "our account is setup pretty well." it wasn't
now they’re taking that $267k and using it to fuel growth through UGC creators
we recovered $267k hiding in a meditation app’s Stripe account, here's the teardown:
+$24k - Enabled card account updater. This is a native setting in Stripe but some apps don’t have it turned on
+$153k - Optimized “insufficient_funds” errors. Stripe was missing a lot of these. We tuned recovery around paydays when customers had funds
+$9k - Enabled network tokens. Another easy Stripe setting that just needed to be flipped on
+$65k - Made it dead simple for customers to fix card issues + locked access until a new card was added
+$16k - Auto-cancelled Early Fraud Warnings (EFWs). These became chargebacks at a 90% rate so they saved a ton on fees + manual work
tobe clear, their growth team had told me "our account is setup pretty well." it wasn't
now they’re taking that $267k and using it to fuel growth through UGC creators