Cody Schneider
78 statements across 16 episodes · 51 bullish · 8 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 10, 2024 by Cody Schneider · said 15 times in 8 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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May 10, 2024 positive
May 10, 2024 bullish
May 10, 2024 negative
Hiring a Deloitte MBA at 20 employees will destroy startup agility
“I saw this happen so many times where they would like get to like, 20 employees and they're like, all right, it's time to hire like a Deloitte MBA. Right. And I'm like, yo, you're about to just like, Screw everything up. Cause the first thing they do is they t…”
May 10, 2024
Startup operations talent is a commodity compared to zero-to-one builders
“That you should focus on the thing that you're really good at, and it's way, way more of a commodity to be a good operations person than it is to be somebody that can like take an idea from non-existent and like bend reality so that this thing now exists, righ…”
May 10, 2024 bullish
May 10, 2024 negative
Traditional sales funnels are broken; brands must build media mass instead
“I think this is actually a better way to think about like funnels funnels. I think are broken because that's not actually how people like make purchasing decisions. They don't start here and then like work their way down. That's a very poor visualization. What…”
May 10, 2024 positive
May 10, 2024 bullish
May 10, 2024 positive
Single-purpose data extraction micro-tools generate passive income with zero customer support
“A hundred percent for small tools. Call it what it is. Be as like specific as possible and like what you'll find. And again, it's just like, these are my favorite businesses. Cause like there's no customer service. Like there's no like product scope increase. …”
May 10, 2024 bearish
Podcasters have zero money: B2C podcast tools are a terrible business
“Podcasters have zero money. They're the worst people to sell to. There's all these companies that are raising money right now for like podcasting apps, like all of these tools. And I just am laughing in the background. Cause there's just, I know this industry,…”
May 10, 2024 positive
Deploying 100,000 programmatic Shopify landing pages increased organic traffic by 10%
“So my friend has this shop, she has like a 10,000 SKUs. And so we're like, all right, this, that Shopify thing I was talking about, let's just like throw up a 100,000 landing pages and see what happens. And we'll do some like auto indexing on the back, just li…”
May 27, 2024 neutral
May 27, 2024
Jun 20, 2024 positive
Schneider: Scraping Twitter followers yields a 40% to 50% valid email rate
“I've just been running this scraper, scraping emails from like my Twitter followers and then using a validation tool to like, okay, are these real or not? And like the data I'm getting back is like almost like 40 to 50% of them are valid emails, which is insan…”
Jun 20, 2024 positive
Schneider: Founders building owned media outperform traditional VC-backed entrepreneurs
“And it's almost like you're not even playing the game at the pro level, unless you're doing this now. Like I look at the stand store guy, like he's funded, right? Like classic path, but he's also doing this. And I'm like, you're playing at a caliber, like at a…”
Jun 20, 2024 neutral
Jun 20, 2024
Schneider: Bootstrapping only works by riding macro trends, not educating markets
“Look for things that are bigger than you that are happening.
And then how do you attach yourself to them?
It's the classic playbook.
Like, especially when you're trying to bootstrap a thing or self-funded it's the only way to do it that I've seen at work.
When…”
Jul 8, 2024 positive
Schneider: Programmatic SEO generated 30% more organic traffic in 14 days
“Like I've seen this on websites that I've worked on where it's like we ship 10,000 landing pages and You know, 14 days after publishing these, like just publishing them, like not even doing any indexing. We were accounting for almost 30% of the organic traffic…”
Jul 8, 2024 positive
Schneider: Visible exterior home services create neighborhood sales leverage
“And the reason for this is because you want to do something that neighbors can physically see looks different on the structure next to them because you can use that as a selling, like a leverage point to go sell the whole neighborhood on that thing.”
Jul 8, 2024 positive
Jul 8, 2024 positive
Schneider: Non-fashion brands with popular merch signal massive market growth
“If you ever see a brand that people are repping, that the product is unrelated, like the clothing is unrelated to the brand, that's when you know that that company is absolutely like going to rip in whatever category it's in. When you can't fabricate that.”
Jul 8, 2024 bullish
Schneider: Satisfying YouTube service videos drive ad revenue and local leads
“So that does two things. It's like that turns into a profit center for you. Cause you're going to get ads, you know, add dollars off of that. But simultaneously, you're going to also get inbound leads from that. Cause they're going to show people that are in t…”
Sep 2, 2024 positive
Schneider: AI email generator MVP costs $3K-$5K and takes 3-4 weeks
“Man, I think that you could build this for three grand. Like you could go to my homies. They're called htmlburger.com. These dudes out of Bulgaria and tell them I sent you, they love this and be like, yo, I'm trying to build this tool. Like literally give them…”
Sep 2, 2024 bullish
Jan 13, 2025 positive
Jan 13, 2025 neutral
Jan 13, 2025 positive
Schneider: Venture-backed founders must seek personal fame to raise subsequent rounds
“If you're a founder though, and like you raise money, like that's the game you're playing, right? Like you're, you just signed on for this. And if you're not like about that, Probably not the right game personally. This is my opinion, right? It just means noth…”
Jan 13, 2025 positive
Schneider: Rupa Health attracted healthtech investors using paid Instagram ads on CEO
“I mean, this is like a playbook that we ran when we were at Rupa. We're like, cool. We're going to like grow the Instagram account of the CEO and also like the company. And then use that as a leverage point because all of the people that were in, like, you kno…”
Jan 13, 2025 bullish
Schneider: Short-form social performance is driven by 10x content volume
“If you look at short form social right now, this is the game. Like I just got off a call with like a tick tock shop agency owner. And she's like, yeah, like literally all we're thinking about is volume. Like the best affiliates that we're working with, they're…”
Jan 13, 2025 positive
Schneider: Life sciences newsletter drives 80,000 monthly clicks for just $450
“We're with the company, right? That we did some work, we've been doing work for the last, I think we're at like 18 months with them. They have a list now of a 130,000. Okay. Every send that we do, it drives 10,000 clicks to their website. We do two sends a wee…”
Jan 13, 2025 positive
Feb 17, 2025 positive
Mar 10, 2025 positive
Schneider: Local newsletters can hit Reddit's front page by buying early-morning upvotes
“There's actually a newsletter play that I see a lot of people use for local newsletters. They go to a subreddit for that, that area. So like Toronto as an example, and they're like, here's 20 things you can do this weekend in Toronto. And then it's like, you w…”
Mar 10, 2025 neutral
Schneider: SEMrush lists around 1,000 'buy it for life' long-tail keywords
“I'm just looking at SEMrush on my side though, gee, and there's all these long tail keyword variations. So buy it for life vacuum, buy it for life couch, buy it for life shoes, wallet, cookware, jeans, socks, belt, list goes on. There's about a thousand of the…”
Jul 23, 2025 bullish
Schneider: Huge business opportunity in building branded AI voice agents with lore
“Or like, and it has this like story that it could basically tell you, or like, it's like a, you know, this lore or origin story, like then take that idea, apply that to brands, apply that to companies. I think there's a huge opportunity in that alone. If you'r…”
Jul 23, 2025 bullish
Schneider: AI tooling enables unlimited data analytics agencies for SMBs
“I think that there's an opportunity to go and basically Create an agency like on top of this AI tooling, because it's easier than ever to like basically build out these dashboards. All you have to do is convert that, that raw data into information and into ins…”
Jul 23, 2025 neutral
Jul 23, 2025 positive
Schneider: Ad agencies that run media buying achieve higher retention
“And it's probably a more valuable agency if you're running the ads because you're closer to revenue, right? Like if you show that, hey, our ads that we make are getting five X ROAS versus the stuff that this, you know, somebody else is making, which is only ge…”
Jul 23, 2025 bullish
Schneider: Productized AI services can easily reach $40K-$80K monthly within six months
“Dude, you can easily make, like, 40 to 80 grand a month and, like, get to that, like, within six months. I, zero doubt that that's possible with this stuff, and also these businesses, like, it's just a better business than AI automation agencies.”
Jul 23, 2025 positive
Schneider: Scraping Reddit via Claude produces superior ad hooks
“What's going to be way more effective is like you go and you scrape a Reddit forum and you find this random quote, you know, about acne cream and like somebody describes it in this funny way or a different way. And like you extract that using Claude and you're…”
Aug 30, 2025 positive
Schneider: Low-Budget Ad Campaigns Must Optimize Upper-Funnel Events First
“If I just turn on ads straight to payment, I'm going to have not enough conversion events for it to train into that payment action. And so I have to focus on the thing that's more up funnel and train it into that, because that is a leading indicator for this, …”
Aug 30, 2025 bullish
Aug 30, 2025 positive
Schneider: If organic search works, paid search will work 99% of the time
“Like if search, if organic search is working for you, paid search will work for you. I guarantee it. Most like nine out of 10 times, like very rarely, 99 out of a hundred times it will work. Very rarely does it not work. It's a skill issue. It's not that you'r…”
Aug 30, 2025 positive
Aug 30, 2025
Schneider: Past SaaS venture spent $80 CAC for $550 LTV
“This is from a company that I'd ran previously. That was like a SMB this tile, right? So the average customer Life or the average revenue per customer was 39 dollars. So I was technically losing money on getting that customer. I would pay 80 dollars to make 39…”
Sep 12, 2025 positive
Sep 12, 2025 positive
Schneider: GEO works best for local services and B2B software
“There's two customer types that I, the data I've seen that like we've seen like have success with this. One is local businesses that are service businesses. So something that you don't make a purchase of often. So think like roofing, think like you know, anyth…”
Sep 15, 2025 positive
Schneider: Ongoing affiliate commissions prevent creators from raising future sponsorship prices
“One, we want to be able to track the ROI they're producing for us. And then two, it creates this lock in with the creator so that long-term they won't increase their prices on you because they're like, oh shit, I'm making 10 grand a month in affiliate commissi…”
Sep 15, 2025 positive
Schneider: Three-video creator sponsorship packages drastically outperform single sponsored videos
“So the three video package, why we're asking for that is we've seen better results than just doing one video. When it's one video, it's like a flash in the pan to their audience. In contrast, when I do that three videos and they do like different like angles, …”
Sep 15, 2025
Sep 15, 2025
Sep 15, 2025 positive
Schneider: Partner with successful creators instead of training internal marketing staff
“Don't hire somebody for this, find somebody that's already doing this and work with them because they've already figured out like the algorithm for that specific category. It is so much harder to train somebody to like understand an algorithm or how, you know,…”
Sep 17, 2025 bearish
Sep 17, 2025 positive
Schneider: Short-form video works best for simple B2C apps
“This is best for like social app or sorry like B to C applications. Right? So like mobile apps this is best for like products that have one killer feature that they're doing. So think about like something like an incogni, right? Where it's like data brokers ar…”
Sep 17, 2025 positive
Schneider: Promote top creators to managers to scale content fleets
“The management of the creators is a pain. So that's like one piece. So how people typically combat that is they go and they hire like whoever their best performer is, they make them a manager. Of all the other creators. So they're still having to do their vide…”
Sep 17, 2025 positive
Schneider: Short-form creator marketing requires mobile impulse buys or sub-$30 pricing
“I think the thing that I, you know, I think about with this is like, it has to be an impulse purchase decision that can happen on a mobile device. Right. So like this works for as well for like e-commerce products where it's like at a price point, that's like …”
Sep 17, 2025 neutral
Schneider: Only about 10% of content posts achieve viral reach
“It's a one out of 10 that a post has some virality, right? Like we know you play this game, like with YouTube, like, or in all of the other content that you do out of all, you know, out of all the content that I publish, one of them will, it will outperform. I…”
Sep 17, 2025 negative
Schneider: Consumers buy from niche creators rather than influencers
“People like, and all of our data supports this. People do not make Purchasing decisions, largely off of like influencers. They make them off of creators that are consistently talking about these things. Influencers only work if you're at like a massive scale, …”
Mar 2, 2026
Mar 2, 2026 positive
Schneider automates ad testing with daily cron jobs that promote winning creatives
“So like, for example, how I would run this is I would have a test campaign where I'm basically testing new creative constantly. I would have a cron job that's on a daily basis, basically going and turning off the low performers. And then the high performers, t…”
Mar 2, 2026 positive
Mar 2, 2026 positive
Schneider deploys validated agent workflows onto Railway for perpetual execution
“This is literally how I'm working now. This is like, I'm just jockeying agents across, and then if I can automate them and get them to do like if I can figure out, okay, this is the specific lane that you can focus on, then I'm spinning that up onto a server o…”
Mar 2, 2026 neutral
Schneider: Infinite ad generation shifts the marketing bottleneck to identifying winners
“The, anybody can go and generate as many of these as they want, right? Like it's literally infinite, but identifying those winners, like you're talking about now becomes the challenge that you're going to face with all of this.”
Mar 2, 2026 bullish
Schneider delegates manual keyboard execution to AI agents like Claude Code
“Basically everything that used to be the middle work that we would do, like all of anything that I would do to touch the keyboard, I'm now passing it on to some type of agent harness whether it's Claude code or it's codex or any of these tools. And so my job s…”
Mar 2, 2026 negative
Schneider: Code-based React templates beat generative AI for rapid ad iteration
“The only thing I've found with, like, Nano Banana is that I sometimes have trouble, like, getting it to stay on brand, and if I'm trying to just, like, figure out the messaging variations that I'm trying to go after, This can be a faster way to do that.”
Mar 2, 2026 bullish
Schneider is building autonomous agents for end-to-end ad creation and optimization
“Where I'm seeing this head personally is like, I'm going to build these tools. That an agent is going to have, and then it's going to be able to run this process in the background where it's basically has the ability to make new creative. It can publish that c…”
Mar 2, 2026 bullish
Mar 2, 2026
Schneider manages 15 simultaneous AI agent windows after six weeks of practice
“Like, and again, this is just how I've been working for the last like six weeks. And it was like, maybe I could have like Two or three of them in the beginning, and now it's like, I'm comfortable with, like, we could have 15 windows open.”
Mar 2, 2026 bearish
Schneider is churning from SaaS tools that lack API and UI parity
“There's a thing you can do in their UI. I can't do in their API. And I'm literally about the churn because I'm just like, this is critical for me. And now it feels archaic for me to go and interact with your fucking, like UI to do this outcome, like output tha…”
Mar 2, 2026 positive
Schneider built an AI agent pipeline to automate podcast guest bookings
“Basically scraped all of the podcasts that were within the marketing category and then built a workflow that goes in cold emails them. And then an agent that responds back to book me on that podcast. This ends up turning into way better performing than I expec…”
Mar 2, 2026
Jul 27, 2026 positive
Jul 27, 2026
Schneider: Autonomous agents upload 10 Facebook ads daily per client
“So for example, like for one company, we're doing two different ad sets per day, five ads per ad set. They automatically get uploaded into Facebook ads based off of all the research that we've done. And also the data that exists within the data warehouse, like…”
Jul 27, 2026 positive
Schneider: Marketers Must Become 'Agent Jockeys' to Build Autonomous Ad Systems
“This is what this turns into is like your job now becomes like, I'm an agent jockey. You're taking your domain knowledge that you have, and you're basically like building this into code and like, I'm not technical. Right. Like I can set this up now. Like the m…”
Aug 5, 2026
Aug 5, 2026 positive
Schneider: Waterfall enrichment from cheap to expensive data tools hits 80% match rates
“And the reasoning behind this is you're starting with what is the cheapest, most accurate, and then moving your way down into the more expensive validation tools. But from this, you can pull out basically from a list, like, you know, this is the way that you g…”
Aug 5, 2026 neutral
Schneider: Automated outbound email infrastructure costs roughly $200 to start
“So in total, you know, out the door to get going on this, the infrastructure costs can be in that range of about a hundred dollars to get started, or sorry, about 200 dollars to get started for the sending software and then also the inboxes.”