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
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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…”
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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 …”
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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…”
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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…”
Nov 8, 2022 neutral
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…”
Nov 8, 2022 positive
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…”