Co-Founder https://xitter.gq/t.co/83se4Ha3SR - We scale YouTube ,Facebook, and Google Ads. Angel investor and public markets investor.
Los Angeles, CA
Joined August 2010
- Tweets10.7K
- Following8.5K
- Followers16.8K
- Likes8.6K
Alan Duvall retweeted
The future of marketing belongs to companies that are willing to let the market change their product.
Alan Duvall retweeted
Unless you've got a long track record, few investors want to fund an idea-stage company with no customers. That's not cynicism, it's how risk works. The best pitch deck you can build is revenue. Go find a few people willing to pay you, and the conversation changes completely.
Alan Duvall retweeted
Read this.
You have no idea how many other industries this can be applicable to.
LEARN ads.
Two weeks ago a life changing amount of money was wired into my bank account from the sale of my business.
Since I'm no longer a competitor in this particular arena, I'm gonna drop some sauce on how I completely mogged an entire industry on meta ads.
I'm going to be vague so I don't dox myself, but here it goes:
Alan Duvall retweeted
How we picked YouTube: email felt tapped out, SMS can end overnight if you trip one rule, and we'd done what we could on the web. We tried a podcast and it didn't take off. YouTube had discoverability and other investing channels proved it worked, so we pointed everything at it.
Alan Duvall retweeted
Elon: We’re early.
Zuck: We’re early.
Jensen: We’re early.
People who don’t build AI: “It’s all a bubble.”
Alan Duvall retweeted
People fail because they do fake work.
Rocking horse syndrome — feels like you're moving forward, but in reality, you're going nowhere.
Designing logos, reading about business, constantly testing technology, etc.
Anything but generating revenue!
Alan Duvall retweeted
Ben Horowitz on treating your story as your strategy, and why founders often skip writing it even though it's one of the most important parts of the job:
"The story of the company is also the strategy of the company... In your mind, you're kind of adjusting that strategy a little bit at a time every day. But then a quarter later, it's actually pretty different than what you started with."
"So it's really important that you keep upgrading your story. The articulation of your story. I would definitely recommend it be in written form."
"Something that you can share with everybody in the company, and everybody you're recruiting, everybody you're trying to raise money from, all your constituents, every customer."
"The problem that I think founders have is it doesn't feel like work. Like, 'What are you doing today?' 'I'm working on my story.' That doesn't sound like work."
"Because it doesn't feel like work, people don't do it, but it's probably one of the most important parts of the job."
@bhorowitz w/ @speedrun GP @Tocelot
Alan Duvall retweeted
Diversification is overrated.
You shouldn’t avoid risk concentration. Everything important in life demands concentrated risk.
All of the most important areas of my life—my marriage, my close friendships, my business partners, my professional skills, and my spiritual life—required me to make choices.
When you realize that you have to focus your attention and time it makes you take your choices more seriously.
The key to success isn’t hedging your bets. It is picking the right places to go all in.
Alan Duvall retweeted
woah...
Inside a human brain when reading a book.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This video shows time-lapse of cultured neurons connecting via growth cones in a lab dish, not processes in a living human brain while reading. Similar real clips by Dr. Lila Landowski show developmental wiring; this one's exact source is unconfirmed.
youtube.com/watch?v=Rvmvt7…
lifo.gr/now/tech-scien…
