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Rob Howard: Medical professionals bought $10k AI consulting sight-unseen
“What we discovered at very accidentally was a ton of doctors, physicians, psychologists, people in like the medical space and adjacent were signing up for this. 10,000 dollar plus plan with us, like sight unseen, no sales call, not talking to me on the phone, …”
Howard: Innovating with AI acquired newsletters to reach 200,000 subscribers
“We in the past have acquired newsletters and acquired small software companies that had, you know, email lists associated with them, which have been, you know, really great Opportunities for growth for us. And what we have now is about 200,000 email subscriber…”
Herold charges $80,000 annually for just three monthly executive coaching hours
“I'm now 80,000 a year just to coach somebody, and that's three hours a month. You get to a point where I can't take that many more clients, and I can't really charge that much more, and it doesn't scale.”
Harbinger: The Art of Charm generates multiple seven figures in revenue
“I'm going to pull a Ramit Sethi and not tell you the exact number, but I will say multi, multi, multi, seven figures.”
Harbinger: Art of Charm Live Bootcamps Cost $4,000 to $8,000
“They range from four to 8000. And we're raising prices this summer, but yeah.”
Livingston remains fully engaged at Y Combinator as Sam Altman assumes leadership
“Ah, a lot of people ask me that, even though my name was not in the announcement as taking a step back. But no, I'm just as engaged as I've always been, and in fact, ah, with Sam on board doing a lot of the administrative things that I Used to do. I'm excited …”
Kagan: AppSumo no longer optimizes for revenue and profit
“I don't mind sharing AppSumo revenue and stuff, but I think it basically makes people think that we're more focused on just revenue and profit, which we don't optimize at all anymore.”
Patel acquired CRM app Stride and tripled revenue within three months
“Ah, we just purchased Stride, which is a CRM app. After we purchased it within two to three months, we've already tripled revenue.”
Walling: Most of my new businesses are 5x to 10x larger
“Most businesses that I've done, the next one is, is about between five and 10 X bigger than the last one.”
Griggs: HearAndPlay generates $3M–$3.5M annually with 10,000 paying subscribers
“So, since inception, we've well hit the eight-figure mark per year. That looks like about 303 and a half million dollars this year will do. We get about 15,000 subscribers a month, and our total list is about 300,000 musicians that play by ear, and out of that…”
Recurring monthly subscriptions eventually became HearAndPlay's primary revenue engine
“That, that model is split. Now it's all the monthly stuff that's our main thing, and the product sales are like our icing on the cake.”
Allis: iContact rejected a previous buyout offer following EO forum advice
“We had a company coming to us That had made an offer to buy our company a couple years ago by eye contact, and I took it to the forum, and I said, is this something I should do? Is this not something I should do? And I ended up getting some very valuable advic…”
Allis plans 25 years of venture investing across sub-Saharan Africa
“What I plan to do with the next 25 years at least is to become a great venture capitalist and a great private equity investor in companies and countries like Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Zambia, South Africa. And really sub-Sahara…”
Huffman: He cried at his desk before finalizing the Reddit acquisition
“The day before was when all, all the lawyers had agreed, and we basically said, tomorrow we're gonna sign the papers. And I remember I got really emotional that day. I was sitting there at my desk in in Boston, and I just cried.”
Huffman: Hipmunk differentiates by filtering out up to 90% of flight results
“One of the ways we can do that is we remove about 70% of listings right off the bat. If you tell us a little bit more about what you want to do, we can remove like 90% of listings.”
Chesky: Early Airbnb growth relied strictly on press and word of mouth
“Our strategy, you know, from where we came from, and I think it kind of explains where, you know, we started off just getting a lot of press, and we relied on press and word of mouth to grow.”
Chesky: Airbnb enforced a strict 'three clicks to book' design rule
“So you can put in your credit card, and we had this saying, three clicks to the book it button. Had to be three clicks to the book it button.”
Cheney: Early funnel sold AI certifications to high-scoring test takers
“So they would land on the site. They would take this free test and instead of charging them three 99 or something, they just said, all you gotta do is put your email address in and I'll tell you your score. Ok. And then, depending on their score, it would, the…”
Mac: Convos is onboarding about 50 waitlist users daily
“Probably like 50 or so. So the app is out there. You can work at you just unlocking the agents takes an invite code.”
Mohrer will release a NY State legislation AI summarizer in weeks
“And so there's an idea there that I worked on with a buddy from Uber that we actually have revisited, and like I just said, I'll circle back on that and kind of explain why, but we're gonna be releasing that as like a side quest in the next few weeks.”
Walls: Starter Story gets 1.5 to 2 million monthly YouTube views
“We're a pretty big channel in our space, and we probably do 1.5 to two million views per month.”
Matze: Rezora's early product was just GPT and text-to-speech
“And at the end of the day, it was just a GPT with the Texas speech model.”
Apfelbaum: Ajax Union generates about $1M a year in revenue
“I, well, we're the revenue for Ajax unions about a million dollars a year right now.”
Apfelbaum: EVAI is approaching $1M in annual revenue
“And every AI is approaching a million dollars a year.”
Singla: Audits personal calendar with ChatGPT to eliminate time-sink meetings
“So I plugged in my calendar into ChildGPT and started audit and it, I told it to start auditing my calendar and starting to tell me which meetings are potentially time sinks or how can I re-architect my calendar to Make more sense.”
Ethan Smith helped popularize '10 Best' title tags and app download interstitials
“I would say I also played a significant role in the 10 best, the 10 best X for Y title tags Like, 15 years ago. And I also played a substantial role in the download interstitials that said, sorry, you can't use the mobile website, you have to download the app.…”
Rob Howard: Innovating with AI has 1,700 premium community members
“In our consulting program, we have a little bit over 1000 students who have joined us since July of last year of 2024, so a little over a year. We also have a previous program called the incubator, which is actually going to be re-released next year. We have a…”
Herold: I always finish everything five minutes early
“I always start, finish everything five minutes early, and I got a call at the top of the hour.”
Harbinger built his initial audience by pitching blogs nightly for four months
“I stayed up till five a.m., probably for four straight months, during a summer, and I emailed every single blog I could find. And probably low double digits or low or high double digits, low three digit number of blogs were like, sure. And they linked to us an…”
Griggs paid $70 monthly for a Yahoo Directory listing for ten years
“I'm still paying for that same listing. I think they get me for 70 bucks a month. I mean, I'm working. I mean, 10 years of that, you know, from day one, and every time my card expires, I go in, and I think it's just a ritual for me now”
Huffman: Living together for eight years gave Reddit's founders sibling-level trust
“Alexis and I have been friends, like we lived together for eight years through Reddit. So we were, you know, pretty close to being brothers in the sense that, you know, I, we have the same relationship that I have with my sister, which is we can get mad at eac…”