Chad Hamzeh

Average guy in this space is spending 90% of their time in a sympathetic nervous system state when you should realistically be spending 10% The solution is not to do less work. The solution is to change the way you approach work. The solution is not to take a vacation the solution is to change your approach on a daily basis. What differentiates pro athletes with 20 year careers vs those with 4 year careers are that the tenured ones learned how to adapt their game. You can’t play like a rookie every single year. Ignoring your body’s signal in the name of grit works until it doesn’t. Then you’re left burnt out at 28 having to drag your feet for the next decade. At some point you need to change your approach. Adapt your strategy to suit your place in time and unique phenotype. Either play smart and stay at the top, or burn out and accept being chronically cooked. Up to you

Over the past year, @enginedotio has changed how games are built and distributed - 1,000+ unique publishers. - 4,000+ games built - $24B in turnover - $90M+ paid out to publishers Previously, this content was only available on Stake. Now, we’re opening Engine to the broader iGaming industry. For operators, that means access to more games from more publishers. For our 1,000+ publishers, it means reaching new audiences and opening up brand new revenue opportunities beyond Stake 😎

I'll die on this hill... There is absolutely no reason you should touch paid ads until you're doing $5 to $10 million in revenue. Learn how to create demand organically through content, partnerships, and outreach first. That's enough to take you to that 5-10M mark. Then once that engine is running, layer ads on top. If you do it the other way around you risk getting eaten up by rising ad costs before your margins can absorb it.

The most dangerous stage of business isn’t being broke. Being broke is honest. The pain forces you to change. The dangerous stage is making enough money to subsidize your own stupidity. The bad employee gets another chance. The dead product gets another $100,000 in ads. The bloated overhead becomes “company culture.” Revenue is a very effective painkiller. It can make years of bad decisions feel harmless. Sometimes success isn’t proof that you’re right. It’s just a longer runway before the consequences arrive. You really do have to operate with an abundance mindset and a scarcity mindset at the exact same time. Believe you can always make more money. Operate like you may never make another dollar.

🎯 We’re hiring a Performance Creative Strategist / Creative Engineer for a fast-growing DTC supplement brand. (repost for exposure would be appreciated) This is not a social media content role. This is not a brand design role. This is not a junior media buyer role. We are looking for someone who has already helped create winning paid-social concepts in supplements, health, wellness, beauty, nutra, or a similar direct-response category. You should understand: - Meta creative strategy - Awareness levels - Hooks, leads, mechanisms, and belief shifts - UGC, statics, VSLs, advertorials, PDPs, and presells - How to study winning ads and identify the pattern underneath - How to brief editors and designers - How to work inside a pod with media buyers and video editors - How to read data, identify winners, and iterate fast You will work with existing media buyers and editors. Your job is to lead the creative system: research, angles, briefs, feedback loops, testing priorities, and winner iteration. ***What we need from you You must already have a portfolio of performance creative work. Ideal background: - DTC supplements, health, wellness, beauty, or nutra - Concepts that have spent $100K+/month or more - Experience creating ads that drove actual paid acquisition, not just pretty content - Understanding of Meta buying and how creative impacts scaling - Ability to manage a creative pod without constant founder hand-holding - Experience turning customer research, reviews, competitor ads, and offer insights into ad concepts - You have a very good grasp of AI tools when needed, but know how to actually think ***You’ll be responsible for - Building weekly creative angle pods - Researching competitor ads, reviews, Reddit, TikTok, YouTube, and customer psychology - Creating high-converting static and video ad briefs - Creating concepts for advertorials, listicles, PDPs, and ad VSLs - Matching creative angles to the correct landing page and offer - Working directly with media buyers to analyze what is working - Briefing video editors and designers - Iterating winners into new hooks, formats, and page concepts - Killing weak ideas quickly when the data says so ***What we are not looking for Do not apply if: - You only manage campaigns but do not understand creative strategy - You need the founder to tell you every angle - You have no examples of performance creative tied to spend or sales - You have never worked in a real paid social feedback loop - You are an agency trying to sell services ***Compensation Base: $4,500–$7,000/month, depending on experience. Upside: 2–4% of qualified ad spend from winning concepts you originate, plus breakout performance bonuses at various milestones. If you can create concepts that scale, this can become a very high-upside role that we will happily pay for :) ***How to Apply Go to the link below and fill out the application and everything required: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F… Applications, DMs, etc., that do not follow this process will be ignored. Anyone who is shortlisted will be contacted within 5-7 days of their submission. If you're not contacted then sorry you have not been shortlisted this time. Thanks

Prioritizing your health over your finances in your 20s is retarded. You're not enlightened. You're not virtuous. You're just broke with a good sleep score. In my 20s I sacrificed my body & my mental health to build my businesses working from 6am-12am. I went to the gym a few days a week but so often I was too tired to go, so I'd skip it and just eat whatever I could. Spending all those hours in the gym and eating healthy and living this “balanced life” is a huge L when you’re trying to go from 0 to 1. There is a period of time where you need to lock the f*ck in and forsake your health and your mental health because that's really what it takes. Because being poor is the worst thing ever for your health both mentally and physically. Do whatever it takes to not be poor, life gets infinitely better the second you aren't poor. You can buy back your mental health and fitness later when you have a bunch of money and a lot more control over your time. What you can't buy back is 10 years of continuing in the same cycle of mediocrity. Saying this to you anon because now I'm the strongest I've been in my life. I lift, surf, box, I do all of my favorite workouts all the time + I live a balanced life at 34. But I didn’t when I was building from 0 to 1.