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Paul Yacoubian

2 months

Today we're launching the the first ever GTM AI Platform. Before we started in 2020, my cofounder @chris__lu and I were helping our founder friends grow their early stage startups. We quickly realized that great products and engineering did not…

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

2 years

Just hit $10m ARR at 🚀

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@PaulYacoubian

3 years

Rules for naming a startup 1. Easy to pronounce 2. Easy to spell 3. Easy to remember 4. As few syllables as possible 5. .com unless very good reason otherwise 6. Related to the product/service Great names are worth millions.

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The 7 soft skills that I have to improve on the most as a startup founder are: 1. Communication 2. Collaboration 3. Time management 4. Creativity 5. Critical thinking 6. Decision making 7. Leadership Which one is the hardest for you?

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@PaulYacoubian

3 years

Interested in learning more about angel investing? My 20 point scoring formula that I use for evaluating early stage VC backed startups 👇👇👇

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

1 year

Just hit $1m MRR at 🚀

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

4 months

I’ve been following @BillAckman since 2012 across his many activist campaigns and I think shining a light on the derangement and corruption of our finest universities is undoubtedly one of the lowest risk, highest reward opportunities to improve America’s future. It’s one thing…

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

$1m ARR 🥳 Tomorrow will be 6 months since our Twitter launch Ask me anything about my startup journey

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

4 years

Just talked to a prominent angel investor who is leaving SF for Miami. Lower taxes, cheap waterfront condo and faster fiber internet connection were big factors in the decision.

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

2 years

7 software tools we used to launch our startup 1. @NotionHQ - project management 2. @SlackHQ - communication + alerts 3. @copy_ai - copywriting 4. @webflow - website and frontend 5. @Firebase - backend 6. @magic_labs - authentication 7. @stripe - payments

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

We passed 3,000 paying customers today 🥳

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

Announcing our $2.9m seed round at 🥳 @DavidSacks at Craft Ventures, @ljin18 at Atelier Ventures, @Alfred_Lin at Sequoia and a 80+ amazing angels. We have the best startup investors on the planet. Let's go! 🚀

Writing helper Copy.ai raises $2.9M in a round led by Craft Ventures | TechCrunch

Copy.ai, a startup building AI-powered copywriting tools for business customers, announced a $2.9 million round this morning. The investment was led by

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

Stripe is worth 20% more than FedEx with just 1% of the number of employees. 🤯

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

4 years

Launching If you hate writing marketing copy, it will blow your mind. We improved on GPT-3 to write copy for any product and for any audience in seconds. Try it free for 7 days. Unlimited usage. No beta invitation needed.

Future proof your business with GTM AI

Introducing the first-ever GTM AI platform. Automate hundreds of tedious, repetitive tasks and empower your team to scale success like never before.

www.copy.ai

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

Announcing our $11m Series A round at from Wing Ventures, Craft Ventures, Sequoia, Tiger Global, Elad Gil, and many amazing investors! 🙌

Future proof your business with GTM AI

Introducing the first-ever GTM AI platform. Automate hundreds of tedious, repetitive tasks and empower your team to scale success like never before.

www.copy.ai

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

Just passed 100,000 signups 🤯 Also secured hire #5 🙌 Startup. Blast off.🚀

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

Passed the $100k MRR milestone at A lot of people want help writing their marketing copy.

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

As a VC/Angel turned startup founder, I would like to apologize to all the founders I ever gave advice to prior to launching . Most of it was terrible advice. I hope you didn't listen to any of it. Feel free to reply below with the bad advice I gave you.

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

YC might ask for 7% of my company if they knew how many of their Startup School videos I've watched on YouTube.

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

Name a terrible problem and I'll tell you a startup idea that could solve it.

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

$45k MRR Had 1,965 folks sign up yesterday 🚀

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

2 years

Just hit 1 million users at 🚀

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

Just passed $2m ARR at 🥳 Only 10 months since our launch on Twitter🚀 If you want learn more about joining this rocket ship, I'm hiring 👉

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

Remote only startups are here to stay. But they only work if founders build a culture around 3 things: writing, teaching and transparency. Building in public is the best way to get better at all 3 simultaneously. That's why I'm hiring right here on Twitter.

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

$81k MRR 🚀 Introducing “Bullet Points to Blog” tool. Now you can generate an entire blog post from just 3 bullet points. 🤯🤯🤯 is free this weekend

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@PaulYacoubian

3 years

$33k MRR Build your startup in public.

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

1 year

October Update $10.8m ARR, +12% m/m Cash burn -86% m/m Our team is lean, low ego, doesn't care about titles, prefers more equity and wants to build for the next decade. Just 31 of us.

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

My mind is totally blown again. OpenAI just built an ai that generates images just as GPT-3 generates words for us at . Here are 4 examples of what the visuals it generated from simple text inputs👇. Link to blog post at the bottom.

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

March startup update

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

2 years

July financial update $7.3m ARR up 27% m/m Cash burn down 25% m/m Targeting profitability in Q4

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

$67k MRR is free for the weekend. Founders applying to YC, our startup tools can help you improve your application. 🚀

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

April Startup Update

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

Underrated superpower in life: asking for things you want

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

I want to build great software and I need to learn more about UX principles. First page is about Jakob’s Law. So obvious and so useful as a core mental model for UX design. Excited to keep reading. Let’s go!

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

I was a wantrepreneur for the first 32 years of my life. I finally found my entrepreneurial spirit this past summer here on Twitter. You all make this place magical ✨

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

A staggering amount of business success comes down to making a list of the 20 people you need to talk to and contacting them one by one.

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

$28k MRR Build in public.

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

First hire coming on board next week. 🚀 We met here on Twitter. I build in public, and I hire in public.

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

Just passed 250,000 registered users at 🙏

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

Most valuable decision of my career so far was to take Twitter seriously.

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

$30k MRR Today marks 3 months since we launched here on Twitter. We could not have done it without the incredible support of all of you. Very grateful that we've been able to share the journey as we build in public. 🙏

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

12 months ago, we launched here on Twitter. The tweet went viral and I went from wantrepreneur to startup founder. I don't know how to code. I don't live in a big city. Twitter is the new Silicon Valley.

Future proof your business with GTM AI

Introducing the first-ever GTM AI platform. Automate hundreds of tedious, repetitive tasks and empower your team to scale success like never before.

www.copy.ai

Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

4 years

Launching If you hate writing marketing copy, it will blow your mind. We improved on GPT-3 to write copy for any product and for any audience in seconds. Try it free for 7 days. Unlimited usage. No beta invitation needed.

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

January update with startup and marketing stats. Building in public works.

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

✅ July Startup Update

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

The 7 hard skills that I have to improve on the most as a startup founder are: 1. Product Management 2. Product Analytics 3. Conversion Rate Optimization 4. Copywriting 5. UX Design 6. Data Analysis 7. SEO Which one is the hardest for you?

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

1 year

Just passed 4 million users at our startup 🤯

Future proof your business with GTM AI

Introducing the first-ever GTM AI platform. Automate hundreds of tedious, repetitive tasks and empower your team to scale success like never before.

www.copy.ai

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

2 years

August financial update $8.7m ARR up 20% m/m Cash burn down 57% m/m Targeting profitability in Q4

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

monthly startup stats and marketing update for December.

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

As the founder of an artificial intelligence startup who knew nothing about how AI actually works, I had imposter syndrome until I learned one important fact. Linear regressions are AI models 🤯 Now I'm no Excel MVP, but I know a thing or two about =slope() and =intercept()

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

Just passed 5,000 customers at ! 🥳

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

4 years

Just met a founder in Miami whose SaaS startup just hit 50k MRR after launching in stealth a few months ago. 100% bootstrapped so far. 👀 🚀🦄

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

If you are unemployed due to Covid, DM me for a free forever account. I want you to use it to start your own business so you can start earning an income again.

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

$58k MRR

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

$40k MRR My "building in public" highlight of the week was learning that my tweet about VC investors who back bootstrapped founders turned into a real investment into a fellow "building in public" founder's company! 🙌 huge shoutout to this incredible Twitter community!

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

Launched on ProductHunt today! 😻 We’re making the site free again this weekend so you can create something fun!

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

Whenever someone tweets about getting their first customer or earning their first $ online, tag me in the replies and I’ll retweet it. Congratulating a new entrepreneur will never get old.

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

$90k MRR Celebrating by giving away 90 free forever accounts to non-profits! 🥳 If you write marketing copy for a non-profit, sign up for our free trial and DM me the email you used. I'll upgrade the first 90 folks.

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

June Startup Update

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

$60k MRR Hired again. #3 . Builds in public on Twitter🚀

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

I am going to be hiring a lot of people in the next 6 months. What are the best guides on allocating equity compensation to early hires?

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

is free this weekend so you can work on your side project!

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

Scaling beyond $10k MRR is nowhere near as interesting as going from $0 to $10k MRR. There is something totally magical about people actually wanting something you've built, especially after you've built a lot of things no one wanted.

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

2 years

Just hit 2 million users at 🚀

Future proof your business with GTM AI

Introducing the first-ever GTM AI platform. Automate hundreds of tedious, repetitive tasks and empower your team to scale success like never before.

www.copy.ai

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@PaulYacoubian

3 years

is free this weekend ✨

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

2 years

Dalle2 turned my iPhone into the Star Trek Replicator. I used it to design the avocado backpack of my dreams and then I got it custom made and shipped straight to my house. It's by far the best bag I've ever had.

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

2,417 signups yesterday 🤯

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

Added over $1k new MRR today. First day we’ve done that. Sold a 15 seat enterprise plan. 🚀

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

If you hate your job, I want you to use to start your own business so you can quit. The site is free this weekend so you can try our business brainstorming tools: 💡 startup ideas 🔤 name generator 📌 customer pain points 🚀growth ideas

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

2 years

Just passed 3 million registered users at 🥳

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

If you could recommend 3 people for a college student who is interested in startups to follow on Twitter, who would they be?

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

+2,000 new signups in the past 48 hours 🤯

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

Does anyone have a good list of ideas for growing MRR at a SAAS startup?

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

2 years

Launching a free plan at today! 🚀 If your free trial account has already expired, we'll convert it to a free plan automatically when you log back in. You'll also get a 100 free generation credit boost when you create your next piece of marketing copy.

Future proof your business with GTM AI

Introducing the first-ever GTM AI platform. Automate hundreds of tedious, repetitive tasks and empower your team to scale success like never before.

www.copy.ai

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

If you are too lazy to start side projects for all the domain names you own, you’re in luck. I’m making free this weekend so you can get the copy you need for your landing page. Reply with your dumbest domain name and I’ll help you launch it. 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

Can’t even fathom the quality of @garrytan ’s next camera upgrade.

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

2 years

I'm launching a Twitter list of angel investors and early stage venture capital investors who are active here on Twitter so startup founders can raise rounds faster.🚀 Reply with any investors I should add to the list! 🙌

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

$72k MRR Goggins

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

Startup Update August ‘21

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

$50k MRR If you want to work at a high-growth, remote-first startup, I'm hiring designers and engineers. Company retreats will be held in Miami, Hawaii or equivalent tropical paradise. Apply 👇

Copy.ai Jobs

Copy.ai is hiring! See 2 jobs in April 2024! Apply to the latest jobs with a single profile and get in touch with hiring managers directly. Learn about salary, equity, work-life balance, perks,...

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

$11k MRR

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

1 year

Started here on Twitter, now on the Nasdaq billboard in NYC for the Enterprise Tech 30 award. Manifested it with y'all - feeling very blessed every day. 🚀🚀🚀

Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

4 years

Launching If you hate writing marketing copy, it will blow your mind. We improved on GPT-3 to write copy for any product and for any audience in seconds. Try it free for 7 days. Unlimited usage. No beta invitation needed.

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

is free this weekend We have 60 ai powered marketing tools to help you kick start that New Years Resolution side hustle project you wanted to build. If you want to launch it big, share the journey and build it in public too.

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

Launching a viral idea generator tool using GPT-3. Tried it on @Tesla and the first page of results were absolutely mind blowing. 🤯🤯🤯 We've made free until Monday so you can use it.

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

What are some new productivity tools you can't live without?

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

1st hire alert! ⚡️ We've hired @heyblake as our Chief Marketing Officer. How we met on Twitter and why we joined forces👇

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@PaulYacoubian

1 year

@gregisenberg Hey Greg - DM me here linkedin profile as i could use an awesome copywriter for $65k who knows how to use ai. We’re seeing the opposite result at with our customers. Their copywriters are way more productive and valuable with ai tools, not less.

Future proof your business with GTM AI

Introducing the first-ever GTM AI platform. Automate hundreds of tedious, repetitive tasks and empower your team to scale success like never before.

www.copy.ai

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

1 year

In 2020, I bought some domain names that I thought might come in handy down the road👀

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

$13k MRR

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3 years

$6k MRR

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

Founders, if you got rejected from YC, DM me a screenshot of your rejection letter and I’ll give you a free forever account for . I want to see you succeed next time you apply.

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

Founder CEO 3 things 1. Don’t run out of money 2. Hire the best people 3. Get distribution

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@PaulYacoubian

3 years

I highly recommend setting up a set of core values and outlining company initiatives that will reinforce those values each quarter. Here are the ones we wrote down for .

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@PaulYacoubian

3 years

101% MRR growth month-over-month despite holiday slowdown and with 2 days to go!!! 🚀🚀🚀

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

What’s your most ambitious goal for 2021? Mine is creating 1,000 new student entrepreneurs.

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

1 year

Just passed 7 million users at 🚀

Future proof your business with GTM AI

Introducing the first-ever GTM AI platform. Automate hundreds of tedious, repetitive tasks and empower your team to scale success like never before.

www.copy.ai

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@PaulYacoubian

3 years

Launching a Twitter list of founders building in public. Reply below if you or someone you know is building in public and I’ll add them to the list. 🚀🚀🚀

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

2 years

Launching First Draft from 🚀 If you hate writing blog posts, it'll blow your mind🤯 We unlocked secrets hidden in GPT-3 to help you write your marketing blog post, in 3-5 minutes. We’re making usage free and unlimited usage for the next 48 hours.

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@PaulYacoubian

3 years

is free this weekend.

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

3 years

The startup founder challenge is to constantly be finding a higher leverage use of your time.

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Paul Yacoubian

@PaulYacoubian

2 years

The fastest way to make $2 million in cash in under 2 years is to learn from youtube, build some software, find some customers on Twitter and sell it on @microacquire

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Bootstrapped startup are still being @microacquire 'd for millions.

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$51k MRR

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