buying software businesses and unlocking growth through operational expertise.

Joined January 2009
As some of you know, @robbiewagner and I have been working on Shepherdjs for years, crafting the finest onboarding tours with OSS. Now, we're diving deeper, brewing up an app to sprinkle your tours with analytics magic 📊 and dynamic journeys 🌟. Sign up at shepherdpro.com for more adventures in user engagement.
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So happy to see feature flagging solutions like Flagsmith and @gofeatureflag listed on the @CloudNativeFdn Cloud Native Interactive Landscape. Right with @OpenFeature. Plus a new feature flagging section 🚀 landscape.cncf.io/
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Today, OpenAI announced they are releasing the ChatGPT Store, an App Store for ChatGPT Shopify Apps: 33,000 apps, $561M of revenue App Store: 1.8M apps, $910B of revenue ChatGPT Store: 0 "agents", $0 revenue Probably millions of agents, billions revenue soon I wish I had created an app for Apple App Store in 2009 when App Store came out I wish I created an app for Shopify App Store in 2009 Tons of opportunity to be building for ChatGPT right now. I wouldn't want to miss it. These paradigm shifting moments happen once every 15 years -- Follow me @gregisenberg to follow along me building businesses for different communities.
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YC was 10/10 the best and now it’s 11/10!!!
I’m thrilled to announce that today I’m joining @ycombinator as a Group Partner. This is the second time that YC has changed the course of my life. (🧵1/10)
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🥳Big news: @RewindAI is coming to Windows! Today I shared the keynote stage with Intel CEO @PGelsinger to demo Rewind on Windows. The demo includes Ask Rewind powered by Llama 2 running entirely locally! Bonus: As of today, Rewind can also run on Intel-based Macs! (1/4)
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5 great books to read if you want to start buying companies or learn about the M&A world:
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4. TransDigm 50x Podcast: 50xpodcast.com/episodes/ Ok…it isn’t a book, but this is crazy good.
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3 big levers (with examples) for more efficient B2B SaaS Growth:
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3. Marketing Channels: If you are in a competitive space, consider which channels you can BUILD instead of RENT. Here are a few examples of great acquisition channels that provided low CAC over time.
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If you want to go deeper, here are the two articles that I wrote. Efficient Sales: polychromecapital.substack.c… Efficient Marketing: polychromecapital.substack.c… Thanks to @dsiroker, @koomen, @spenserskates, @thisisgrantlee, @ttunguz, @benjarom3 for helping me learn!
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The @Docker turnaround story has been phenomenal to watch over the past few years. From $12M to $100M ARR in 1 year 🤯 h/t @arjunsethi for the public memo / reflections
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Today, I'm kicking off the 2022 Startup Market Conditions Survey to assess how startups are feeling about the market given all the volatility. It's short, less than 4 mins! Last time we had 500+ respondents. ttunguz.typeform.com/to/DsjG… Results to follow in about 10 days.
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