Julian Shapiro
Startup Growth Expert. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
Julian Shapiro is a startup growth expert and writer. He shares frameworks on startup growth trends, content publishing schedules, and audience building.
Everything Julian Shapiro said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Shapiro: Faking ubiquity among influencers is a cheat code for mainstream adoption
“You can create this optical impression. And if you're making the impression on a persona that is itself a distribution, like lightning rod, like investors or like very high social signal, like influencers, if they get the impression of just them narrowly, Thin…”
Shapiro: Wealthy creators who run podcast ads undermine their content's purpose
“When I see very rich people start podcasts and still run ads on their podcast, like, unless you're doing it to pay employees, awesome, but if you're doing it because you're trying to make an extra buck, it seems like it's totally defeats the purpose of why you…”
Shapiro: Publishing thought leadership on a fixed deadline is a trap
“They're publishing when they truly have something to say, they're not publishing try to hit a deadline, which I think is a trap because you're then forced to try to be a creative genius on account on a schedule, which is like near impossible.”
Shapiro: Startups grow faster when product roadmaps align with acquisition wedges
“Can you think of your product roadmap if you're starting a business in unison with your growth roadmap? Because everything we've just been discussing is basically a product feature. It's not like you're just running ads In a silo, you're running ads because yo…”
Shapiro: Delay user account registration until delivering massive contextual value
“If you can find a way to make something so painless, where it's like two clicks, set it and forget it. The idea is that now you're around. Now you have a bunch of exposure opportunities. You keep popping up when relevant on webpages that the user's browsing. A…”
Shapiro: Browser extensions that help users make money are the stickiest
“What's a framework for thinking about which category of Chrome extension would be the stickiest and would people love to download the most? And I think about how to appeal to advice. Like how do I appeal to people's desire to make money? And so where my brain …”
Shapiro: Better marketing cannot easily displace strong brand tribalism
“And just because there's another CryptoPunk competitor, it doesn't necessarily mean that they can just take over through better marketing, because better marketing has a hard, will hit a hard wall against tribalism and a building identity around something that…”
Shapiro: Use self-liquidating funnels to build lead databases at break-even
“If you can't make the economics of an ad channel exciting, can you at least a not burn money while B building a huge lead database that likes you because your free thing or your cheap thing rather was really high quality.”
Shapiro reached 200,000 Twitter followers by tweeting only twice a month
“Like if you look at like my Twitter account, I think I got to like 200,000 Twitter followers and I tweet once every 14 days, like twice a month. I literally send two tweets a month.”
Shapiro: Twitter bios should explain what followers gain and why
“Write your bio to justify why people should follow you. By the way, let's just stick with Twitter for now. That's what we're talking about here. So write your Twitter bio. That justifies why you're differentiated and worth following. What do people get from fo…”
Shapiro: Twitter bios need minimal social proof to establish credibility
“So the second part of this is, it's not just why they should follow, but also what is the minimal amount of social proof to justify why you talking about the topics you're saying you'll talk about. You actually are qualified to do so.”
Shapiro: Podcasts succeed by riffing on ideas rather than asking questions
“What's going on here that special is they're not asking boring interview questions. They're literally just riffing on ideas collaboratively. And making charge statements and letting other people respond to them. And the net effect is it feels way more like rap…”
Shapiro: True product-led growth requires clear benefits for both sender and recipient
“So the idea behind product-led growth, the first half of the idea is that you use the products in a way that benefits you when you invite more people. So you're going to do it without them having to bribe me with five bucks to invite your friends because you'r…”
Shapiro: Pinned tweets should reinforce bio and prove creator qualifications
“Your pin tweet can reinforce what your bio said to further qualify why you talk about that. Why you should talk about it rather. And it gives an example of it. So they get the quick dopamine hit off the bat that your pin tweet is delivering on.”
The other half of the tape: Julian Shapiro's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 31 times in 5 episodes across the shows. 2 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Shaan Puri 29
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Shaan Puri sources half his fund deals from niche domain expert friends
“That's, I would say, 40 to 50% of the portfolio is relationships with friends who themselves are experts and specifically people who are experts in one niche.”
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My First Million 31
2023 2 mentions in 1 episode
2022 7 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
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| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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| MY FIRST MILLIONLEDGER | Startup Growth Expert | 1 | 14 | — | full record on My First Million → |