why aren't all 5 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public
record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card:
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Insight
Swulinski: Superhuman hit a growth ceiling by hyper-focusing on tech founders
“At the end of the day, it was very much a, you know, premium product, immediate paywall, and the core ICP is founders, right? And we also experienced this at Whisper, right? Like the early adopter tech founder is not an infinite audience. I think today it's an…”
Disclosure
Swulinski ran $1M/mo Google spend and 100+ newsletters solo at Wispr
“For essentially a year and a half, I was the one person at Whisper doing all execution. So imagine a million a month on Google, hundreds of thousands of keywords, ads, experiments, landing pages. I owned every KPI from eyeball to download and then product tick…”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Swulinski: Google Ads was Wispr Flow's best-performing acquisition channel
“Google Ads, it was, it is still the main driver, just and it was surprising across literally everything, right? Non-branded search, Pmax, YouTube ads, everything prints there”
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Swulinski: Large Share of Wispr Flow ARR Was Enterprise Before Hiring AEs
“We were B to C, PLG, but like a very large component of our ARR was enterprise before we had a single AE, because it was self-service, enterprise adoption, team licenses, and that kind of stuff”
Disclosure
Swulinski: TikTok marketing has not worked at any of his three companies
“To be honest, in any of the three kind of core companies that I've been at so far, It hasn't worked yet, but maybe I'll get a chance to change that at Victor.”