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7 statements across 7 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Feb 21, 2023 by David Maelstrom · said 63 times in 30 episodes since 2021 · across every show →

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2025 11 mentions in 7 episodes 2 per episode
2024 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2023 23 mentions in 9 episodes 3 per episode
2022 11 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
2021 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode

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Everything said about Instagram, oldest first

Feb 21, 2023
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Mellstrom: Buddy acquired its first 30 customers via Instagram DMs
“So we were like DM warriors on Instagram for like two or three months. And that worked. We got to, you know, I'd say probably 25 or 30 customers just using the like pure DM, you know, scrappy outreach.”
David Maelstrom Feb 21, 2023 ▶ 5:09 Startup Acquisition Stories with David Mellstrom, Co-founder of Buddy
Oct 24, 2023
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Bickhart: Instagram meme account drove 400 daily app downloads for Minnow
“We built one of the fastest growing Film and TV meme accounts on Instagram, and at its peak, we had over 600,000 followers including big celebrities, and we're promoting new movies on platforms, old movies on platforms, things that are coming, things that are …”
Jes Bickhart Oct 24, 2023 ▶ 10:17 Startup Acquisition Stories with Jes Bickhart, Founder of Minnow
Jan 22, 2024
Disclosure
Martin Galovic Is Building FansIQ as CRM for OnlyFans Agencies
“First one is fundsIQ.com, which is like a CRM for primarily only funds agencies, but we also have like Instagram and TikTok features.”
Martin Galovic Jan 22, 2024 ▶ 12:19 Startup Acquisition Stories with Martin Galovic, Founder of FanMetrics
Feb 12, 2025
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Rosen: Nomad Cloud's original founder held a scraped list of 1M users
“When we were talking to Olu, the original founder, we found out he had a list of A million names that were scraped of people who had searched digital nomad and Instagram, and it's a valuable list.”
Gabby Rosen Feb 12, 2025 ▶ 3:40 How Gabby Rosen Flipped a Newsletter for 18x in Under a Year
Aug 4, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Jet Designs acquired customers via Meta ads and targeted outbound
“We ran some ads on Facebook and Instagram, that was really good as well as Outbound on LinkedIn, and email, just reaching out to recently, companies. That was kind of our main two, two main channels.”
Rich Yoon Aug 4, 2025 ▶ 2:24 5 Simple Steps To Get a Bootstrapped SaaS Acquired
Oct 9, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Naveen Arun: Content creators launching products will define new startup culture
“Content is going to be the new startup culture. Content creation, YouTube, Instagram. People who are I mean, if you see already a lot of followers, you know, these content readers are going to start products.”
Naveen Arun Oct 9, 2025 ▶ 44:40 Why is lifestyle the next big thing? | Startup Stories Uncut | Episode 1
Jul 2, 2026
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Imran's Business Blurb generated one billion Gen Z views in three months.
“We got a billion views in three months, and all we did was take news from other platforms and put them on TikTok, Twitter, Instagram in a manner that Jen's guest didn't understand it.”
Faze Imran Jul 2, 2026 ▶ 3:39 6 Exits by 24: The Demand-First Startup Sale
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