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11 statements across 8 episodes · 5 bullish · 0 bearish · 8 people on the record · first statement May 4, 2024 by Matt Giovanisci · said 91 times in 32 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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brought up most by Ben Leavitt (18), David Park (9), Pat Walls (5), Blake Anderson (4), Sarah Pearl (3), Mal Baron (3), Maddox Schmidlkoffer (3), George Lampropoulos (3)

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2026 59 mentions in 17 episodes 3 per episode
2025 21 mentions in 8 episodes 3 per episode
2024 10 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
2023 1 mention in 1 episode

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Everything said about Instagram, oldest first

May 4, 2024
Disclosure
Giovanisci publishes one long-form and three short-form videos weekly
“So I do one long form video a week. Three short form videos a week on YouTube, Instagram, Tik Tok, Pinterest, Twitter, LinkedIn, anybody that will take a short form video basically.”
Matt Giovanisci May 4, 2024 ▶ 6:27 I Turned One Website Into $1M/Year
Dec 29, 2024 bullish
Insight
Anderson: Social media algorithms push more views to new accounts
“And I don't think that the algorithms were as optimized for new accounts to be able to generate millions of views a few years ago. But now that they're all in bloodbath competition with one another, They have to incentivize new creators. And so they'll push mo…”
Blake Anderson Dec 29, 2024 ▶ 2:54 He Made $10M with 3 iPhone Apps
Dec 29, 2024 bullish
Insight
Anderson: TikTok and Instagram distribution are solvable for driving massive traffic
“TikTok and Instagram are very solvable right now. You can figure out the various influencer strategies, the user generated content strategies, organic account growth strategies to funnel millions of people to your products.”
Blake Anderson Dec 29, 2024 ▶ 2:39 He Made $10M with 3 iPhone Apps
Mar 25, 2025
Disclosure
Jack Fricks Runs Three Instagram Accounts to Space Out Video Posting
“I run three Instagram accounts to split up my videos because I want to try and spread all of them out by at least three or four hours.”
Jack Fricks Mar 25, 2025 ▶ 11:18 I Built a $10K/Month App from My Mom’s Basement
Mar 25, 2025 neutral
Insight
Fricks: Six-Second Videos Are the Easiest Way to Maximize Watch Time
“The algorithm loves watch time. And the easiest way to get like a hundred percent, 200% watch time is to make your video six seconds long.”
Jack Fricks Mar 25, 2025 ▶ 10:07 I Built a $10K/Month App from My Mom’s Basement
Jan 11, 2026 positive
Opinion
Acosta names LinkedIn the best monetization platform due to low competition
“If you want to make money, LinkedIn is your best shot. Twitter is cool, Instagram is cool, but LinkedIn is so much better. There's just not, no competition at all.”
Lara Acosta Jan 11, 2026 ▶ 16:45 How My App Hit $60K/Month in 2 Months
Jan 18, 2026
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Baron: 10K Daily UGC Views Drove 200 to 300 App Downloads Daily
“In my case, 10 K views A day was getting me around two to 300 downloads a day, but this is because this specific format is very optimized for downloads.”
Mal Baron Jan 18, 2026 ▶ 8:38 I Built a $20K/Month Mobile App: Here’s My Entire Playbook
Mar 19, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Ben Leavitt: Follow Buddy operates entirely within Instagram's terms of service
“All that we're doing is telling people who unfollowed them through leveraging Instagram's export data feature. So all that you have to do is go follow the steps to get your followers and following information that is approved from Instagram. We're not breaking…”
Ben Leavitt Mar 19, 2026 ▶ 13:07 I Make $17K/Month With One Strategy
Mar 19, 2026
Assertion Supported
Leavitt: Video inventing the Instagram 'compare lists method' hit 1M+ views
“I made a video about that and it got like one point Something million views. And that strategy that I brought to the internet has since been repeated so many times that it's referred to as the compare lists method.”
Ben Leavitt Mar 19, 2026 ▶ 3:24 I Make $17K/Month With One Strategy
May 24, 2026 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Huberge: A single influencer post generated over $10,000 for PepAI
“We had one guy that had made one story post and from that we did a thousand dollars in revenue, which is insane for one story post on Instagram. And then when he made his actual first post, it got 50,000 views and we did like 4000 dollars in revenue just from …”
Cedric Huberge May 24, 2026 ▶ 10:45 I Built A $30K/Month in 35 Days
Jul 12, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Pearl: Manifestation content generated over one billion TikTok views
“I have 1.2 million followers on Instagram. Yeah. I post a bunch of manifestation content, and this is my TikTok with 2.8 million followers. Combined views have generated over a billion views on TikTok, which is crazy.”
Sarah Pearl Jul 12, 2026 ▶ 2:21 She Built This $340K/Month App in 60 Days
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