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Banning congressional stock trading harms Autopilot but helps society
“I honestly hope they get banned. Like they shouldn't be able to, if they get banned, it's bad for our business, but I think it's better for society and it's better for the trustworthiness of our government.”
Josephs: Autopilot planted a fake Nancy Pelosi at a UFC fight
“We literally did send a fake Pelosi to the fight. She was sitting there in the front row with Mike Malak. There's all these pieces of content around her. The New York post already kind of took it up. They created an article about it.”
Autopilot has all major meme accounts on its cap table
“We have all the major meme accounts on our cap table.”
Operating a public figure tracker avoids influencer scandal risk
“They had a spokesperson for their brand. It kind of represented what they did, but the problem with it is you're then beholden to whatever happens to David Dobrik. So one scandal comes out, he's gets in trouble. Your brand gets in trouble by having us kind of …”
Rebranding a personal TikTok to a corporate brand increases clicks 5X
“Before you get big and before you launch a product, if you create a personal brand, more people want to follow personal brands, but the downside is you don't get as many clicks. Once you have the larger account, you switch it, we switch it to join autopilot an…”
Attaching notable names is the only way to capture user attention
“The only way you can really get people to pay attention to what you want to do, in my opinion, was getting notable names”
Josephs: Autopilot sponsored UFC for brand differentiation, not app downloads
“Like that, that was the goal of the UFC. It was to Not to drive downloads, not even really to build out brand awareness, but to put Autopilot on the map and differentiate us from our competitors to be like, that's a cool company that I like because they're swi…”
Josephs: Autopilot has 1.2M downloads and $300M invested
“And our app has around like 1.2 million downloads, three hundred million dollars invested things of that nature.”
Josephs: OpenAI sent Autopilot a cease and desist over ChatGPT portfolio
“OpenAI sent us a cease and desist, so we have to close that one down.”
Josephs: Autopilot is first app enabling automated politician trade copying
“It's The first app that allows you to automatically copy politician stock trades.”
Startups should leverage existing viral channels instead of creating new ones
“Like a huge thing that I believe is social media is sort of like a web of just like the neurons in a brain. Everyone is just sending stuff through the different distribution channels. But the one thing to note is those distribution channels are already made. Y…”
Autopilot reached 53,000 downloads and $220K ARR days after launch
“Built this Iris, the autopilot app and the autopilot app now has around 53,000 downloads. We launched Yesterday, two days, we launched on Thursday, so we launched a couple days ago, but that app already has 53,000 downloads, zero dollar CAC, all just through t…”
True virality requires exact and consistent peer-to-peer messaging
“If I were to tell you something and you were to go tell your friend something, we want to make sure that what I told you is the exact same thing that you told your friend. That's how these things truly, truly go viral.”
Josephs: Autopilot is transitioning to a creator portfolio marketplace
“The cool thing we're a marketplace now, so we're going to have people actually be launching their portfolios and we're going to be building content around those people.”
Autopilot's RIA Status Limits Paying Meme Accounts for Viral Reposts
“And we aren't able to do that as much anymore because of we're a registered investment advisor. And once you're on RIA, as on the autopilot side, you gotta be careful with payments and things of that nature.”
$8M in community money is copy trading politicians on Autopilot
“Eight million dollars of the community money is already copy trading politicians, join the movement, sign up, and throw a couple grand behind it too.”
Meme creators Litquidity and Trust on Terry invested in Autopilot
“Liquidity is an investor in us, Trust on Terry, a lot of these other meme accounts, and we said, okay, we know this content will go viral if it's picked up in the right channel.”
Josephs single-handedly built over one million social media followers
“We've built a million plus followers through this idea. And it's just been me. I've run the Twitter accounts. I run all the TikToks. I run the Instagrams.”
Meme partnerships grew the Nancy Pelosi tracker to 100K followers
“So when we went from zero to around a 100,000 followers on Twitter, we worked with different meme accounts to kind of pump in that content into those channels. One shout out is Parikh Patel. So Parikh Patel, he's like a pseudo advisor investor for us.”
Michael Burry tracker converted 140K followers into 350 newsletter subscribers
“Without even tweeting about the Michael Burry tracker, we got up to 60 to 70,000 followers just from the traction from the Pelosi thing. We took the Michael Burry one, started tweeting about it, and now we're up to 131 140,000 followers on that. Spun off a new…”