🐠 Fishbowl: Journey to 1M users

🙏 Hallow: building a 9-figure prayer app

💍 Keeper: 0-1.5M playbook (AI matchmaker)

🤑 Zogo: 8 figure exit @ 22

🤳 $$Million dollar UGC playbook for consumer founders

👗Pickle: Series A fashion marketplace playbook

📖 10 startup cheat codes from the YC @ Harvard talk

🌎 Praktika: $12M ARR in 4 months playbook (AI language learning)

🧑🏻‍💻 Simplify: 0-$1M ARR playbook behind an AI job board

💰 $170B+ oral health gold rush

$170B opportunity for startup founders

✈️ How Hopper grew $0 -> 5B after a hard pivot?

Play book you can copy for your own consumer startup

💡 Idea validation framework (backed by 100+ founder interviews)

Cheat code you need for validating your consumer idea

☀️ SaaS - Serendipity-as-a-Service

One of the hottest startup opportunities for consumer founders

💓 How Lovable grew $0 -> 6.1M ARR in 6 weeks?

Lovable's secret sauce: how you can clone their strategy

🤖 Boardy - Your AI Co-Founder

+ 90-second post

📢 I am joining a16z as a venture scout!

🎶 How Pokémon GO for music fans grew 0-400K DAUs <1 year

Soundmap's proven ideation and growth playbook for million users

✍️ AI writing apps

+ 90 second post

👟 Lightweight AI Consumer Utility Apps

90 second post

🔥 I am back (and life updates)

+ The future of Consumer Startups

🌍 Labor Arbitrage

+ different models for the offshore hiring market

🧺 Sudshare: Uber for Laundry

+ How to make a killing in the laundry world

🙊 How to save money with startup deals

+ Unconventional ways to save money and extend your runway

🚀 50 ways to 10x your life with ChatGPT

+ example prompts for you to get started

🤖 Opportunities in generative AI

+ How to start a consumer generative AI startup

🤖 Consumer AI startups

+ How AI is disrupting the B2C world

📈 Propel

+ how deep user empathy helped Propel to acquire 5M users

🛫 The Future of Travel

+ 5 trends and 10 startups that will shape the future of travel

👨‍🏫 Practice

+ How to use content and community to drive user growth

🎨 Figma

+ How Figma acquired 4M+ users with its community-led growth strategy

🏘 Neighbor

+ scrappy ways to get your early customers

🗺 Bounce

+ How to scale a luggage storage marketplace

📱Blloc

+ how Blloc reached 750K+ installs on Play Store

🕸 Marketplaces

+ how to build a marketplace startup

🏌️Curated

+ the secret sauce behind Curated's growth flywheel

👨‍🎓 Protégé

+ how to democratize career opportunities

🦸Superhuman of x

+ Next-gen productivity stack

🏧 The future of neobanks

+ the evolution of neobanks

💸 Fractional Investing

+ Fractional investing history, main players, and many more

🏎 The Future of instant commerce

+ frameworks to understand this space

🎁 Drops

+ 4 modes of product drops

🍬 The future of CPG wholesale marketplaces

+ Pain points, trends, current players and many more!

🎁 Future of snack box industry

+ How to build a venture scale snack box company

🏃‍♂️Cadoo

+the burgeoning financial incentivization ecosystem

🏠 Quo: future of homeownership

+ how to build a full-stack homeownership platform

🏫 Lambda School

+ Another Collab with First 1000 :)

🏘 Fractional

+ how to invest in real estate with friends

💸 Pallet

+ the economics of running a job board

🔆 Beacons

+ how to compete with industry incumbent

🕳🐇 RabbitHole: LinkedIn of Web 3.0

+ how to build a crypto startup

📣 Cameo

+ and getting people to pay you to promote your product.

🎢 #63 - 🖌 Inkbox: Temporary Bad Decisions

+ how Tyler and his brother Braden built one of the most popular tattoo brands

🎢 #62 - Neyborly: No more vacancy

+ how Ben and his team pivoted twice and came back from near bankruptcy

🎢 #61 - Sunroom: OnlyFans 2.0

🎢#60 - Snackpass: The Pickup Artist

+ Snackpass's secret plan to conquer the food pickup world

🎢#59 - Mos.com: Solving the $1.7T Crisis

+ story of how Amira went from a human rights activist to a sequoia-backed founder

🍿 SnackMagic: Pepsi of the bits world

+ how SnackMagic grew from 0 to $20M in 8 months

🎢# 57 - 👙 OnlyFans

+ First collaboration with First1000

🎢 #56 - The future of commerce is distributed and social

+ 3 startups that will revolutionize commerce

🎢 #55 - Amazon roll-up biz

+ insights from Ryan Gnesin (founder of Elevate Brands)

🎢 #52 - NFTs, SuperRare, and the business of digital arts

+ jobs and internship posting!

🎢 # 51 - How to build a $1.5M ARR Slack community for sneakerheads

+ Story of SoleSavy

🎢 #50 - How to build a CBD startup

+ How Amanda Goetz built House of Wise

🎢 #49 - How to grow your early-stage consumer startup?

+ interview with Mike Duboe (Partner at Greylock)

🎢 #48 - Zara meets Netflix

+ cool readings like Product Hunt strategy, how to bootstrap, and more

🎢 #47 - Wanna game with me?

+ Key insights on startups and fundraising from DocSend and YC

🎢 #46 - Sports cards, sports cars, and the story of Rally

+ jobs and internship listings!

🎢 #45 - How to democratize music creation (story of Rapchat)

+ Join our clubhouse chat today!

🎢 #44 - How to start a marketplace startup w Fabrice Grinda (200+ exits)

+ Job postings & Internships!

🎢 Newsletter #43 - Story of Stir (Square for digital creators)

+ jobs and internship opportunities!

🎢 #42 - Figma for Games

+ full-time & internship postings

🎢 #41 - How to disrupt the music industry?

+ full-time jobs and internship postings!

🎢 #40 - Marketplace and the next-gen beauty retailer

+ Anne Dwane (Partner at Village Global)

🎢 #39 - How to make stock investing more fun and social? (Story of Public)

+ Karan Mehta (Investor at Octopus Ventures)

🎢 Newsletter #38 - Social + e-commerce =?

+ Steve Sloane (Partner at Menlo Ventures)

🎢 Newsletter #37 - TikTok for Podcasts

+ Paul Strachman (Partner at Red Sea Ventures)

🎢 Newsletter #36 - Let's run the world

+ Rex Woodbury (Principal at Index Ventures)

🎢 Newsletter #35 - How I started writing Consumer Startups

+ Happy end of the year!

🔑 Newsletter #34 - Shopify for content creators (story of Jemi)

+ Saar Gur (Partner at CRV)

🔑 Newsletter #33 - How to build online communities?

+Future of Consumer Startups

🔑 Newsletter #32 - How to build a new kind of journaling app?

+ Matthew Hartman (Partner at Betaworks Ventures)

🔑 Newsletter #31 - How to bootstrap an e-commerce business?

+ Elizabeth Edwards (Founder at H Venture Partners)

🔑 Newsletter #30 - 10X your productivity using the browser

+ David Goldberg (Partner at Alpaca VC)

🔑 Newsletter # 29 - Draw your way to love xoxo

+ Jason Stoffer (Partner at Maveron)

🔑 Newsletter #28 - What's better than meditation?

+ David Beisel (Parter at NextView Ventures)

🔑 Newsletter #27 - Dumping diet for good

+ Paul Murphy (Partner at Northzone)

🔑 Newsletter #26 - So .. wanna do a dance-off?

+ Caitlin Strandberg (Principal at Lerer Hippeau)

🔑 Newsletter #25 - Welcome to the metaverse for sports and esports fans

+ Jordan Cooper (Partner at Pace Capital)

🔑 Newsletter #24 - Find your Wozniak ;)

+ Craig Shapiro (Managing Partner at Collaborative Fund)

Newsletter #23 - From yearbook app to raising 1M seed from GV

+ Beth Ferreira (Partner at FirstMark Capital)

🗞 Story of Fold (Get bitcoin when you shop)

+ Jonathan Friedman (Partner at LionBird)

🗞 #21 - Make your g-cal 10x better. No cap.

+ David Tisch (Managing Partner at BoxGroup)

🗞 Capture life, one story at a time

+ 3 interesting Twitter threads

🗞 Blockchain + Tiktok + Patreon + Insta = ?

+ Latif Peracha (General Partner at M13)

🗞 What if chat is also a canvas?

+ Easiest way to wipe your carbon footprint off the planet

🗞 Let's go hunt a killer

+ Learn a language without trying

🗞 Reimagine mental health care on college campuses

+ Mental health startups in 2020 - Landscape

🗞 Costco for luxury goods

+ Amazon for repeat consumables

🗞 Let's go build a house

+ Delivery-only restaurant brand

🗞 From gamer community to 3D virtual event platform

+ What if everyone gets to invest in startups?

🗞 Let me know how I can be helpful ;)

+ Did GPT-3 write this?

🗞 Online event platform that actually builds community

+ Take back control of your data

🗞You got me hooked 😍

+ Fastest snack delivery service

🗞I will give you one lottery ticket for every $25 you save

+ it is what it is 👁👄👁

🗞What about Uber for tutoring?

+ Hey there ;)

🗞The insider story of Snackpass

+ TikTok copycat

🗞I am getting TRASHed

+ Notion is a game changer

🗞Can you get value from 2 minutes?

+ Hopping on the #vanlife bandwagon

🗞Lessons learned from my first startup in college

+ FB's big baller move - Shops

🗞Let's talk about dating apps

+ Quibi off to a rough start

🗞From Tinder for mom friends to raising $12 Million Series A

+ Shopify ventures into B2C?

🗞What's the hype around Clubhouse?

+ how are startups dealing with COVID?

Introducing Consumer Startups