Ghamsari: Blend generated $10M pipeline for Autopilot in one month
“From just the early pipe, we have about ten million of early pipeline for Autopilot. We only priced it this past month in April and started our sales keep actually talking to customers who have turned it on. We already have double digit 1,000,010 plus million …”
First Blend Autopilot customer cut mortgage closing from 29 to 21 days
“One of the first customers that roll out autopilot, we did an analysis with them of how it impacted their operations. They took their mortgage closing process, which includes a lot of things in blend and some things out of blend, like the appraisal took it dow…”
Josephs: Autopilot's Instagram account generates more impressions than its Twitter
“We run an Instagram account with a million followers. It's called the Politician Trade Tracker. And that thing gets, if not more impressions than Pelosi Tracker on Twitter.”
Josephs: Autopilot's Nancy Pelosi tracker outperformed the S&P 500 by 30%
“Like, in 2024, for example Our Pelosi tracker that we track her filings, not the actual days of the trade, obviously, and she was up 54%. She outperformed the SPY by 30%.”
Josephs: Skeptical that Congress will successfully pass a stock trading ban
“I think now is the time that a ban could actually be passed, and with Autopilot, we're fully bipartisan. We will We will help AOC. She deserves a lot of credit for that. But I am a bit skeptical that something we'll get through. I think there's a lot of challe…”
Josephs: Marjorie Taylor Greene files stock trades in a reasonable timeframe
“To her credit, she's one of the few politicians that actually files her dates, trades, in a reasonable time frame.”
Josephs: Autopilot has 9-10 creator portfolios live and 30-40 in queue
“And we've been able to now scale this to now where we have nine or 10 pilots is what we call them. Probably like 30 to 40 waiting to launch.”
Josephs: Autopilot has distributed $500,000 in creator payouts to date
“And we've done half a million of creator payouts so far.”
Josephs: About $350M in capital follows Nancy Pelosi's trades on Autopilot
“Since then she has probably three hundred fifty million dollars following her, which is crazy. She's got her own little mini hedge fund.”
Josephs: Majority of politicians tracked by Autopilot outperform the market
“I haven't checked on him in a while, but the other politicians that we do track, the majority of them do outperform, but this year is going to be an interesting one because of the different market dynamics.”
Josephs: Autopilot Generates 70 Million Monthly Social Media Impressions
“We probably bring in, like, I would say probably, like, just to be conservative, like, seventy million impressions a month across all of our stuff.”
Josephs: Autopilot reached $500M in traded AUM and 2.5M downloads
“I think we have, right, 2.5 million downloads. Six figures of active subscribers, and then on the AUM, because we're a registered investment advisor, this is all public. What's fascinating, what kind of, I'm proud of, is like, People trust us with their money.…”
Josephs: Autopilot Will Reach $1 Billion in Traded AUM by Year-End
“I'm confident and I'm excited that we'll be able to build momentum from current assets of half a billion to connected assets, which should hopefully get us to a billion by the end of the year.”
Josephs: Autopilot generates eight figures in revenue with consistent MoM growth
“We do eight figures in revenue. We aren't public with how much, but Eight figures in revenue. It's growing month over month. We've never really had a down month.”
Josephs: Autopilot Is Backed by Craft Ventures and Nomad Ventures
“We haven't done a fundraising announcement, so we're backed by Kraft. They've been helpful. Nomad Venture is out in LA. I love those guys. Yep, I was just chatting with James on the way over. They've been very, very helpful. And they were our seed investors.”
Josephs: Nomad Ventures wrote Autopilot's seed check after eavesdropping in a coffee shop
“James from Nomad was right next to me and just tapped me on the shoulder, and he's like, take my card, this is kind of interesting, and then a couple weeks later, he wrote us the first check in the momentum to get the seed investment done.”
Josephs: Autopilot's AI-generated Pelosi video gained 5M organic views
“So, like, at the end of the day, that video that took two hours got us five million of organic views.”
Josephs: Autopilot has $40M copying an AI-generated ChatGPT investment portfolio
“That got us the top 15 in the App Store. And I think now we have forty million dollars following that GPT portfolio.”
Josephs: Faceless TikTok growth hacking fails for high-trust financial products
“There's a, you probably see it on Twitter all the time, all these kind of young kind of, they call them cracked out engineers, growth hacking TikTok with the faceless videos and yada, yada, yada, and that stuff works. But that doesn't necessarily really work f…”
Josephs: Autopilot has raised approximately $6M to $7M to date
“To date, I think we've raised around six or seven million.”
Josephs: Autopilot is bipartisan and targets more Republicans than Democrats
“We are very bipartisan. We call out more Republicans probably than Democrats, but we just have the Pelosi tracker name.”
Josephs: Top creators on Autopilot generate over six figures annually
“Our, one of the businesses on our platform makes over like, easily over six figures a year, and it's just like, they're putting stuff up, we don't want to be too public with the numbers, but these guys are doing well, and like, there's random people on Twitter…”
Josephs: Autopilot is first app enabling automated politician trade copying
“It's The first app that allows you to automatically copy politician stock trades.”
Josephs: Autopilot has 1.2M downloads and $300M invested
“And our app has around like 1.2 million downloads, three hundred million dollars invested things of that nature.”
Josephs: Autopilot sponsored UFC for brand differentiation, not app downloads
“Like that, that was the goal of the UFC. It was to Not to drive downloads, not even really to build out brand awareness, but to put Autopilot on the map and differentiate us from our competitors to be like, that's a cool company that I like because they're swi…”
Autopilot's RIA Status Limits Paying Meme Accounts for Viral Reposts
“And we aren't able to do that as much anymore because of we're a registered investment advisor. And once you're on RIA, as on the autopilot side, you gotta be careful with payments and things of that nature.”
Josephs: Autopilot planted a fake Nancy Pelosi at a UFC fight
“We literally did send a fake Pelosi to the fight. She was sitting there in the front row with Mike Malak. There's all these pieces of content around her. The New York post already kind of took it up. They created an article about it.”
Josephs: Autopilot is transitioning to a creator portfolio marketplace
“The cool thing we're a marketplace now, so we're going to have people actually be launching their portfolios and we're going to be building content around those people.”
Josephs: OpenAI sent Autopilot a cease and desist over ChatGPT portfolio
“OpenAI sent us a cease and desist, so we have to close that one down.”
Puri: Pelosi's stock portfolio is up 30% YTD, outperforming Warren Buffett
“And like, of course, somehow Nancy Pelosi's like, happens to be, you know, she, you know, she's you know, happens to be up 30% year to date. Like she's outperforming Warren Buffett. She's outperforming your favorite hedge fund guy.”
Attaching notable names is the only way to capture user attention
“The only way you can really get people to pay attention to what you want to do, in my opinion, was getting notable names”
Startups should leverage existing viral channels instead of creating new ones
“Like a huge thing that I believe is social media is sort of like a web of just like the neurons in a brain. Everyone is just sending stuff through the different distribution channels. But the one thing to note is those distribution channels are already made. Y…”
Operating a public figure tracker avoids influencer scandal risk
“They had a spokesperson for their brand. It kind of represented what they did, but the problem with it is you're then beholden to whatever happens to David Dobrik. So one scandal comes out, he's gets in trouble. Your brand gets in trouble by having us kind of …”
Meme creators Litquidity and Trust on Terry invested in Autopilot
“Liquidity is an investor in us, Trust on Terry, a lot of these other meme accounts, and we said, okay, we know this content will go viral if it's picked up in the right channel.”
Meme partnerships grew the Nancy Pelosi tracker to 100K followers
“So when we went from zero to around a 100,000 followers on Twitter, we worked with different meme accounts to kind of pump in that content into those channels. One shout out is Parikh Patel. So Parikh Patel, he's like a pseudo advisor investor for us.”
$8M in community money is copy trading politicians on Autopilot
“Eight million dollars of the community money is already copy trading politicians, join the movement, sign up, and throw a couple grand behind it too.”
True virality requires exact and consistent peer-to-peer messaging
“If I were to tell you something and you were to go tell your friend something, we want to make sure that what I told you is the exact same thing that you told your friend. That's how these things truly, truly go viral.”
Josephs single-handedly built over one million social media followers
“We've built a million plus followers through this idea. And it's just been me. I've run the Twitter accounts. I run all the TikToks. I run the Instagrams.”
Michael Burry tracker converted 140K followers into 350 newsletter subscribers
“Without even tweeting about the Michael Burry tracker, we got up to 60 to 70,000 followers just from the traction from the Pelosi thing. We took the Michael Burry one, started tweeting about it, and now we're up to 131 140,000 followers on that. Spun off a new…”
Rebranding a personal TikTok to a corporate brand increases clicks 5X
“Before you get big and before you launch a product, if you create a personal brand, more people want to follow personal brands, but the downside is you don't get as many clicks. Once you have the larger account, you switch it, we switch it to join autopilot an…”
Autopilot reached 53,000 downloads and $220K ARR days after launch
“Built this Iris, the autopilot app and the autopilot app now has around 53,000 downloads. We launched Yesterday, two days, we launched on Thursday, so we launched a couple days ago, but that app already has 53,000 downloads, zero dollar CAC, all just through t…”
Autopilot has all major meme accounts on its cap table
“We have all the major meme accounts on our cap table.”
Banning congressional stock trading harms Autopilot but helps society
“I honestly hope they get banned. Like they shouldn't be able to, if they get banned, it's bad for our business, but I think it's better for society and it's better for the trustworthiness of our government.”
Lacey: Tesla faced a DOJ criminal probe for inflating Autopilot capabilities
“Tesla was facing a criminal probe from the Department of Justice for inflating autopilot capabilities, and a handful of startups were facing cash flow crunches.”
Fei-Fei Li: I would never put my kids in early Tesla Autopilot
“So when Tesla's autopilot came out, I watched some of the YouTube videos. As a mom, I would never want to put my kids or myself into those cars.”
Basu Trivedi: Tesla's 2016 Autopilot team had just 30 people
“So, so an example of this is, you know, Tesla has a 30 person team working on autopilot, which is their Autonomous sort of cruise control and lane changing and lane keeping software and application that's live today in in Model S's and Model X's. So they have,…”