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Schneider: Facebook Is the Best B2B Advertising Channel Currently Available
“Facebook has turned into the best B to B ads channel. And that exists right now.”
Schneider: Capital is a commodity, VC differentiation requires cult personalities
“Capital is basically a commodity at this point. So the only differentiation is going to be like you being, you know, a cult leader personality.”
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,…”
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…”
Schneider: Cold email and marketing channels are decimated by AI slop
“Right now,
Cold email is getting decimated. Reply rates are down. Everything is down. Actually, every marketing channel is down right now. Let's be real. The reason is just because like AI slop is flooding the zone and it's becoming just red ocean everywhere.”
Schneider: Use LLMs to write CPU software, don't burn tokens running tasks
“You should not be paying Anthropic. You should not be paying Chad CPT to do an API call. You should be paying them to make the software that uses CPU to do the API call. Why are you paying this tax on tokens every time that you're trying to do this marketing a…”
Schneider: The social media manager job is already dead
“I actually think the social media manager job, like
Full stop.
It's, I think it's already dead, but let's, I won't get into that.”
Schneider: Autonomous agents can now run entire Facebook ad campaigns end-to-end
“You can make an agent entirely run Facebook ads now. And I'm talking about like, it is researching the pain points. It is researching the outcomes of your target customer. It's making creative that's on brand, both statics and also like AI avatar UGC. It's pub…”
Schneider: AI agent systems reduce 100-ad Facebook setups to 90 minutes
“If I wanted to go and create a hundred ads, right. And get that into Facebook ads, like that is probably like two weeks of work, right? Historically. And now you as a founder, like literally in the next hour and a half, you can have this whole system that I ju…”
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, …”
Schneider: Short-form clipper accounts and their engagement data are fake
“I don't think Clipper's real. I think all the data is absolutely fucking fake”
Schneider: Placements on AI-referenced URLs yield visibility within 24 hours
“If you do what I just described, like you get impacts, like literally 24 hours later, right? And it's way different than traditional SEO where it's like, oh, it's this very long buildup.”
Schneider: AI search responses are sourced from Google pages one through three
“When it comes down to it, like all that's happening is basically what is ranking on page one through three of Google. That is what the source material for the AI responses are.”
Schneider: ChatGPT and Perplexity rely on Google's index instead of crawling
“ChatGPT and OpenAI and Perplexity, like, they're all built on the back of this, like, search engine Google, right? Google has spent the last, whatever, 30 years or 25 years basically indexing the entire, like, internet. Imagine, like, Perplexity and ChatGPT, w…”
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…”
Schneider: Real Estate Is Where You Meet the Dumbest Rich People
“Real estate is where you meet the dumbest rich people. And I feel like that is kind of a truth. Like the, it's a grind type business. And if you can just show up and be like very studious with it, like you can make money there in my opinion”
Schneider: Corporations will inevitably adopt synthetic AI brand spokespersons
“It's going to trickle down into, like, direct-to-consumer, and then that trickles down into B to B, and, like, this is an inevitability that will happen over time. Like, imagine, like, a corporation, right? Like, a Torture Would kill for this. They're like, yo…”
Schneider: Andreessen Horowitz is a media company that does venture capital
“People think a, 16 Z is a venture company. It's like, no, they're a media company that, Does venture, right? It's the opposite.”
Schneider: Founders should never build an EHR startup to fight the government
“Do not build an EHR. Just full stop. Do not build this. Like if you're listening right now, never even think about this idea, never approach it. There's no way you can win. You're fighting the government.”
Schneider: Dedicated agent frameworks are often bloat for finite tasks
“A lot of the times you don't need it. It's just bloat. You can just have a very simple, like a very simple solution for these finite problems, right? It doesn't have to be this over complicated or over engineered thing.”
Schneider: Building AI tools for WordPress is a blue-ocean market
“And it's like, it's such an easy space to compete in. It's kind of blue ocean for this.”
Schneider: Meta's Andromeda Eliminates the Need for Interest-Based Ad Targeting
“So on the Facebook ad side, so for targeting on Facebook anymore after Andromeda, you don't do interest-based targeting. Historically, how I would probably do this is I would actually go and I would target people who have a WordPress interest on Facebook ads. …”
Schneider: Marketers Manipulating Reddit for LLMs Are Creating a Dead Internet
“Reddit is being eroded right now by people manipulating it for like LLMs to rank on them.
but this is a way like you buy people like me that are basically creating the dead internet.
Let's be real.
It's already happening.”
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…”
Schneider: Salesforce's robust API makes it a better AI foundation than HubSpot
“If you're looking at Salesforce versus HubSpot right now, Salesforce, even though it's like historically a more clunk like clunky CRM, it's actually the better product for this AI foundation because it has a more robust API. So you can do more with it basicall…”
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.”
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…”
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…”
Schneider: Pitching creators with 10k-50k subscribers unlocks massive marketing arbitrage
“Like we'll see this all the time, especially with smaller creators that are like 10,000 to 50,000 subs, they don't know what their value is. And so if I reach out to a hundred, say I get 50 to respond, And then of those 50, 10 are going to underprice themselve…”
Schneider: Everbee bootstrapped to $6M ARR in 18 months using YouTube strategy
“I have a friend that took his company from zero to six million ARR in 18 months only running the strategy. Entirely bootstrapped. The company is called Everbee. I, it's my friend Cody McGuffey is an absolute G.”
Schneider: Brands can instantly cut creator sponsorship quotes in half to negotiate
“When they come back with a number, you can negotiate down. Like, I guarantee it. I would cut that in half and, like, work your way up from there.”
Schneider: GEO is overhyped because AI is not cannibalizing Google search
“I think it's hype, right? And here's the reason, okay? There's still more searches happening on Google. Like, people aren't stopping searching on Google. It's just like, it's basically like, if you think about the graphs going up, like, searches on Google are …”
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…”
Schneider: Attractive female avatars perform best for AI UGC ads
“And then the avatar, you just like, honestly, hot girls work the best.”
Schneider: Facebook ad algorithm makes creative quality the only differentiator
“Facebook has gotten so good at understanding the person that's most likely to sign up for this thing that you're trying to promote. All that matters is you make good creative now”
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.”
Schneider: AI automation agencies are flawed businesses due to one-time project revenue
“The business composition or the biology of the business for an automation agency is just really hard. Like you have to be really good at getting like top of funnel leads. You have to be really good at sales. Cause it's like typically kind of higher ticket. So …”
Schneider: AI tools eliminate the need to hire graphic designers and video editors
“That's where the AI automation piece comes in, where it's like, you don't need to hire a graphic designer. You don't need to hire a video editor. Like all of these things can basically be handled by a lot of these AI tooling, this AI tooling.”
Schneider: Any coaching business is suddenly disruptible by AI
“I think that anything that it was a coach is suddenly like disruptible by AI first off.”
Schneider: Short-form video will never sell high-ticket services
“For high ticket stuff, like short form video is never going to sell a high ticket thing. I don't know why people even try. Like, that is the wrong thing to be doing. Like, if you're trying to sell something that's three to five, you know, five, 10 grand plus a…”
Schneider: Dr. Martens quality deteriorated following private equity buyout
“They're like Doc Martens, but it's the company that used to manufacture Doc Martens. And then Jack Martin, Martin got bought by PE and the quality went to like to shit.”
Schneider: 'Boring business' gurus reinvest profits into online businesses
“What's the first thing they do when they get success is they take the money that they made from their boring business and they go buying all, they go buy online businesses that are cash flowing assets for them.”
Schneider: Exact-match long-tail domains still rank effectively on Google
“So why this works is because long tail exact domains still actually work for banking on Google with even all the algorithm changes and updates.”
Schneider: Major Record Labels Are Switching to Laylo
“All of the major record labels are switching to this right now.”
Schneider: Record Labels Have Turned Into Just Banks
“They're like a bank. That's all they turned into.”
Schneider: Traditional marketing funnels deceptively obscure actual consumer behavior
“How the marketing funnel is like being entirely wrong way to think about marketing, modern marketing. I think it's a very just deceptive way to kind of hide what's actually happening.”
Schneider: Funded startups should market across every channel simultaneously
“If you're funded, you have a ton of money, you have a ton of time and you have a ton of resources. So you, when they ask that question, like, where should I be? It's like everywhere. You should be everywhere. That is why you raise money.”
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…”