Brian Clayton

10 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 8, 2022 by Bryan Clayton · across every show →

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Nov 8, 2022 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Clayton: GreenPal can reach nine figures before needing a leadership reset
“I think I can take this business to nine figures and then it's going to be like a reset.”
Bryan Clayton Nov 8, 2022 ▶ 21:30 Being Mario Was the Only Way We Survived Level One
Nov 8, 2022 positive
Disclosure
Clayton: GreenPal unlocked Facebook marketing only after mastering it in-house
“And it wasn't until we ran a Facebook campaign, did our own creative, took classes on copywriting did, ran the campaign ourselves, did the A-B testing ourselves, and got pretty good at it, and then we could delegate tasks to specialists that we were able to th…”
Bryan Clayton Nov 8, 2022 ▶ 11:15 Being Mario Was the Only Way We Survived Level One
Nov 8, 2022
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Clayton: 95% of startups fail to generate more than $2,000 in revenue
“And that's where, you know, 95% of startups don't get to level two. You know, they don't build a product that makes more than, you know, a thousand or 2000 dollars, if that.”
Bryan Clayton Nov 8, 2022 ▶ 15:00 Being Mario Was the Only Way We Survived Level One
Nov 8, 2022 negative
Disclosure
Clayton: GreenPal wasted $150,000 on an outsourced development shop that failed
“None of us knew the tech side, so we believed all we had to do was just pay a development shop to build what we thought Green Pal should be, and then we would be off and going, and so we did that, and we spent like a 150 grand of our own cash paying this dev …”
Bryan Clayton Nov 8, 2022 ▶ 9:08 Being Mario Was the Only Way We Survived Level One
Nov 8, 2022
Insight
Clayton: Eight-figure CEOs work three-hour days to make one good decision
“Once you get moving and you know, you get over eight figures, then you got this team doing things and quite frankly, some days might be boring because you got a really good team around you and they're, Kicking ass and doing what they're supposed to be doing, a…”
Bryan Clayton Nov 8, 2022 ▶ 25:09 Being Mario Was the Only Way We Survived Level One
Nov 8, 2022
Insight
Clayton: Improving retention 1-3% equals a 100% boost in signups
“In most businesses, if you can improve retention one or two or three percent, it's like the same as increasing signups by a hundred percent.”
Bryan Clayton Nov 8, 2022 ▶ 31:01 Being Mario Was the Only Way We Survived Level One
Nov 8, 2022
Disclosure
Clayton: GreenPal has not raised any outside capital
“We haven't raised any outside capital.”
Bryan Clayton Nov 8, 2022 ▶ 39:41 Being Mario Was the Only Way We Survived Level One
Nov 8, 2022
Disclosure
Clayton: GreenPal reached $10,000 monthly revenue on buggy self-written code
“That was what we had to do at that stage of the game was become really in retrospect, you know, compared to the people that work for the company today, terrible coders, trash, trashy code. Buggy code. Barely worked, but that's what we had to do at level, metap…”
Bryan Clayton Nov 8, 2022 ▶ 13:25 Being Mario Was the Only Way We Survived Level One
Nov 8, 2022 neutral
Assertion Supported
Clayton: GreenPal operates under 50 staff versus prior 150-person $10M firm
“I ran a ten million dollar landscaping business that in many ways was harder than this business, and did a pretty good job of running that, and got that business acquired which doesn't happen very often in the landscaping industry. So, you know, I've kind of b…”
Bryan Clayton Nov 8, 2022 ▶ 20:42 Being Mario Was the Only Way We Survived Level One
Nov 8, 2022 positive
Insight
Clayton: Early-stage startup founders must be generalists across 20 disciplines
“And so I think like in startup land and starting a business, it pays to be Mario. You know, if you got to jump in there and write some copy, if you need to be writing a blog post every day, if you need to be doing like a hundred journalist outreach pitches a d…”
Bryan Clayton Nov 8, 2022 ▶ 14:29 Being Mario Was the Only Way We Survived Level One
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