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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.”
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”
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…”
Autopilot has all major meme accounts on its cap table
“We have all the major meme accounts on our cap table.”
Josephs: Autopilot is first app enabling automated politician trade copying
“It's The first app that allows you to automatically copy politician stock trades.”
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: Social Media Users Follow Movements and People, Not Brands
“No one follows brands. Everyone follows movements. Everyone follows like people.”
Josephs: Combining Memes and Investigative Journalism Builds Online Authority
“The meme builds virality. Investigative journalist builds credibility and marrying them together. And then you have an account that's an authority.”
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: Build PR by Feeding Reporters Niche Intel Instead of Pitches
“I recommend to people build out a email list of reporters that cover your space and don't sell your product. Don't sell you. Just give them high quality content, make them feel like they're always in the know with their space, because when they do want to writ…”
Josephs: Live shopping streams are next evolution of lifestyle content
“I see it as like the next evolution of getting ready with the makeup, putting your outfits on, fit checks, to then, I'm, this is like what I'm shopping for, online shopping experience, and I think girls would eat it up.”
Josephs: Live shopping crushes it in Asia but has failed in America
“It crushes it in Asia, but it hasn't translated to America.”
Josephs: Twitch is too branded as a gaming site to capture shopping
“Twitch is just, it's branded too much as a video game site.”
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.”
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…”
Users prefer following individuals and cultural movements over corporate brands
“The spokespeople for these brands are great because as an end user, you don't want to follow another brand. It's like, I want to follow an actual person. I want to follow like a movement.”
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.”
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…”
75% of heirs fire their parents' financial advisor immediately upon inheritance
“75% of those heirs, when they receive that money, fire their parents' financial advisor the same day they get that money.”
Josephs: Pelosi Tracker and Politician Trade Tracker each have 750K followers
“I've personally built that Pelosi tracker with the help of my team, it's not just me, but to around like 750,000. On Instagram, we have another account called the politician trade tracker, which has around 750,000.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
$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.”
Spotify Wrapped succeeds as memetic marketing by enabling self-expression
“Spotify wrapped, they send that out. And you talk about it and it's fun. It's a representation of yourself, the same way a funny meme that you can repost to your story is a representation of yourself too.”
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.”
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…”
Autopilot predecessor app Iris achieved 150,000 organic downloads via TikTok
“We are at a 150,000 followers on that account. And that with our old app got us, we grew our Iris app to a 150,000 downloads, mainly through TikTok, all organic.”
Memes go viral because thousands share one synchronized thought
“Working with these meme accounts, memes are just so powerful because it's one thought, one single thought being done by thousands of people at the same time. And when that happens, it's just, it explodes because everyone sends it to their friends and that's ho…”