Cold outreach alone doesn't close deals.
Outbound is top of funnel. It starts the conversation.
Content marketing and sales collateral carry:
TOF: get discovered
→ Unpopular opinions
→ Industry myths
→ Macro expertise
MOF: build trust
→ Founder stories
→ Failures and expensive lessons
→ Micro expertise: your frameworks and methodology
→ Behind the scenes
BOF: kill objections
→ Case studies with real before-and-afters
→ Objections you've overcome
→ Your offer, explained plainly
→ Who you WON'T work with
You need 3, 4(max) obsessive, high-IQ motherfuckers.
You do NOT need 75 VA level folks...
More people ≠ more output. More people = more meetings, more mistakes, more managing.
The math is actually brutal:
4 people = 6 lines of communication.
10 people = 45.
20 people = 190.
Every new line is a TAX.
Here's who you actually want:
→ Obsessive. They think about the problem in the shower.
→ Sharp. You explain it once.
→ Owners. They fix it before you notice it's broken.
→ Builders. They automate the job instead of doing it forever.
A small team of killers + real systems + SI beats a big team of bodies.
Hire slow. Pay up. Stay small.
entrepreneurship is a marathon
it'll take everything you've got
your mind + body + soul
I've been in it for 17 years.
I've built 7 figure companies.
And I've watched them die.
Here's what nobody tells you: the market isn't what stops most people.
self-doubt is
here's how to nuke it...
1 - Steal belief: Find someone a few steps ahead who started where you are. If they did it, "impossible" just became "how."
2 - Borrow belief: Get around people who believe in you more than you do, until you catch up.
3 - Control your state: Sleep. Train. Eat right. Breathe. A wrecked body tells convincing lies.
4 - Earn belief: Stack small wins on purpose. Wake up early. Go to the gym. Send the email. Make the call. Ship the thing.
every rep is a receipt
Confidence isn't a feeling you wait for.
It's evidence you collect.
And it compounds.
Just Do Shit
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We’re committing a portion of Anthropic’s shares to the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, a new wholly owned entity dedicated entirely to the public benefit.
It will start off with 5% of our shares. For every 50% increase in the company’s value over a set baseline, we can contribute up to an extra 2%, subject to our board’s discretion.
In total, this means that roughly 20% of Anthropic’s shares are committed to the public good. Our co-founders have already pledged to donate 80% of their equity, and around half our employees are donating a portion of their equity as part of a donation matching program we’ve run since our founding.
In the post below, we share more details about our new fund.
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YOU GOTTA GET DIRTY
Perfect is the enemy of velocity. And velocity is the only thing that actually makes you money.
You sit for weeks and week “dialling in” a cold email copy. Tweaking words.
Rewriting the subject line. Running it through 4 AI tools.
Meanwhile your competition wrote 2 sentences, hit send, and is already on their 15th sales call.
You don’t get paid for being right. You get paid for motion.
Perfect is a hiding place.
It feels productive:
“We’re refining the offer”
“We’re tightening the messaging”
“We’re almost ready”
No - you’re not.
You’re avoiding contact with the market. You are SCARED...
The market doesn’t reward polish.
It rewards:
- Speed
- Volume
- Feedback
- Iteration
You know what actually happens when you move fast? You get punched in the face.
- Bad replies
- No replies
- Confusion
- Rejection
Good. That’s data. That’s signal. And it happens no matter what!
YOU GOTTA GET DIRTY
Ship it.
Then fix it.
Then scale it.
That’s the game.
here’s a good one
this client has been with us more than 2 years now
30 domains >> 15 are in production at any given time (meaning we keep half as backup // rotating)
2 inboxes per domain gives us 30 active inboxes
don’t send more than 20 emails / day / inbox = raw send capacity of north 12k emails a month… that’s 6.5k to 7.5k contacts you’ll need from Apollo.io - don’t cheap out, buy good data
hit them with a 2 sentence email
you get 1.5 seconds to pique their interest - that's the window
another few seconds to elicit a reply - at least get them to check you out
don’t over complicate your outreach
this is shorter than an elevator pitch
we're not selling, we're not explaining
you can impress them later, for now we are just starting the conversation
12k emails out the door - maybe 1% reply and ~a little more than half of those replies are interesting
client is in for $70k // $90k annually and printing 7 figures ROI
it's not rocket science
BUT...
it is science
it is art
and it is real hard work from a killer team
here’s a good one
this client has been with us more than 2 years now
30 domains >> 15 are in production at any given time (meaning we keep half as backup // rotating)
2 inboxes per domain gives us 30 active inboxes
don’t send more than 20 emails / day / inbox = raw send capacity of north 12k emails a month… that’s 6.5k to 7.5k contacts you’ll need from Apollo.io - don’t cheap out, buy good data
hit them with a 2 sentence email
you get 1.5 seconds to pique their interest - that's the window
another few seconds to elicit a reply - at least get them to check you out
don’t over complicate your outreach
this is shorter than an elevator pitch
we're not selling, we're not explaining
you can impress them later, for now we are just starting the conversation
12k emails out the door - maybe 1% reply and ~a little more than half of those replies are interesting
client is in for $70k // $90k annually and printing 7 figures ROI
it's not rocket science
BUT...
it is science
it is art
and it is real hard work from a killer team
great outbound sales outreach starts with great inbound organic
You did your job; you landed in their inbox. It's the *right* decision maker's inbox. And your copy scratches an itch...
Then they googled you. And you died right there.
No pipeline.
No deal.
No explanation.
Just silence.
This is what actually happens...
Cold email creates interest. Interest seeks validation. Validation decides reply rates. Not your sequence. Not your subject line.
your presence
There’s a second search happening.
Nobody talks about it.
Every prospect runs it.
Website.
LinkedIn.
Content.
Signals.
They’re asking one question:
"Who the hell are you!"
Most fail that check.
Dead LinkedIn. No point of view. No proof you exist outside their inbox. So the deal never even starts. The shift is obvious if you actually do this.
Outbound is not a channel. It’s a trigger.
You’re not generating leads. You’re earning belief. And belief is built before the reply.
If you’re running outbound right now: Every send should assume they will look you up. Every message should match what they find. Your profile NEEDS to close the gap.
David Tile retweeted
We are entering a phase where knowledge compounds faster than our intuition, and future arrives before society has fully adjusted to the present.
Our brains evolved to understand gradual change, but AI, biotech, gene editing, robotics, BCI, fusion, longevity research, quantum science, and automation are advancing exponentially, so outcomes arrive earlier and stronger than we intuitively expect.












