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Ecommerce bro post-exit checklist:
✅ Sauna, cold plunge, home gym
✅ Boredom, restlessness, depression
✅ Existential crisis
Final boss:
☑️ Start an agency
Time to build again. This time with my good friend @andrewjfaris
Should be fun:
Patrick Coddou
9,320 posts
Patrick Coddou
@soundslikecanoe
Teaching machines to work so humans can create.
Operations / AI at AJF Growth (Meta Agency)
Previously founder at @getsupply (acquired)
Rarely serious.
Fort Worth, TX
Joined April 2009
- I have only two speeds of email reply: 27 seconds 3 weeks
- I'm an engineer by training, and an avid Google Sheets user. But I still just guess. every. single. time.
- This is not a flex. This is a notice. You can do this too. With zero outside funding. With nothing but sweat, grind, and hard work. With one foot in front of another. One day at a time. For years. With a dream, passion, and a lot of late nights. You can do this too.
- For those entrepreneurs that need a bit of encouragement today. We've been in business for 5 years. Half of our lifetime revenue and eighty percent of our lifetime profit has come in the past 6 months. Some people find overnight success. But it is not the norm. It takes time.
- “We raised $39M and I wished we’d never raised a cent of it.” Tristan Walker about Bevel (reportedly sold for ~30M) There’s not ONE way to run a business, but the VC treadmill is looking less and less attractive every day. This is not a dunk on Bevel. It’s a wake up call.
- I sometimes wonder if the digital-first brands will get bulldozed by the legacy brands quickly coming online. Then I think... Naaahhhhhhh
- What are your red flags when hiring? 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 I want your spiciest takes only.
- I got a new truck over the weekend. $60,000 MSRP. Got it for free. Learned a few things, wanted to pass them on...
- 🎉🎉BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! @getsupply has been acquired! Our new home is with Foundry Brands. With this acquisition, Supply is entering a new phase of growth. I’ve *never* been more excited about our future.
- In our first ~2 years of business, I did everything I could to seem "bigger" than we really were. Then I realized I was throwing away our biggest asset. I started putting my face/name on website, emails, collateral. Started personalizing. Here's what started to happen 👇
- Got this gem going out today as part of our Small Business Saturday email blast.
- Petition to remove the word "ninja" from job titles, forever
- I'm getting very annoyed. There are really talented operators behind great businesses that are scared sh!itless right now. And they all think they're alone.